About Trident
Founded in 1987, Trident Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital television System-on-chip (SOC) solutions for the rapidly growing consumer electronic markets in digital flat CRT TV, LCD TV, PDP TV, Micro Display Projection TV, AV Notebook PC, and especially High Definition TV (HDTV), With headquarter in Sunnyvale, California, the company also has sales, support, and development centers in Shanghai, China; ShenZhen, China; and Tokyo, Japan. The company became public on XX and trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "TRID."

Products and Technologies
The world is evolving quickly to a new generation of consumer display devices that are based on digital rather than analog technology. This transition is in many ways analogous to the rapid changeover from vacuum tubes to transistors in computers forty years ago. Trident has leveraged its eighteen years of experience in designing, manufacturing and supporting highly complex mixed-signal digital display controllers to create five generations of fully-integrated video controllers for advanced TV systems. The patented technologies behind Trident's Digital Cinema Reality Engine (DCRe™) brand continue to deliver unparalleled video excellence to mainstream consumer entertainment displays. For a complete product listing, please see products.

Customers
Companies who rely on Trident video control solutions as the basis for many of their mainstream and high-end digital flat televisions include Sony, Samsung, Philips, Toshiba, TCL Thomson Electronics, Skyworth, Xoceco, Sampo, Tatung, and Quanta. These customers place a high value on Trident's unique ability to integrate sophisticated analog and digital functions on a single chip to reduce design complexity and on Trident's proprietary video algorithms to facilitate the art of delivering beautiful image quality on the full range of advanced display devices. With Trident¡¯s patented suite of DCR™ technologies the company offers products that bring digital cinema quality to mass-market home entertainment displays.