Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID) is a leading force in the digital home entertainment market, delivering innovative semiconductor solutions for digital televisions and set-top boxes – at the heart of today’s digital home. As a long time pioneer in consumer electronics, Trident is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the transformation in today’s living room – where consumers can access any content, at any time, on any of their consumer electronics devices, and enjoy their entertainment with very high quality and a completely immersive experience – no matter the source.

Our innovations in picture quality, support for Internet connectivity and exciting user features have been transforming living rooms around the globe. With spectacular 2D and 3D images, surround-sound and Internet-ready connectivity platforms, Trident’s semiconductor solutions bring consumers a world of diverse, rich and immersive entertainment. With Trident technology, consumers can enjoy TV shows, HD, 2D and 3D movies, 3D games, photos, videos and extensive Internet content from multiple sources on their TVs and through their set-top boxes.

The company’s innovations include a highly-optimized consumer electronics systems architecture, based on building blocks central to delivering an immersive experience to consumers. Trident has an extensive patent portfolio, highly-efficient SOC design and implementation expertise, and focus on open platforms. These STRENGTHS enable the world’s top consumer electronics OEMs, set-top box providers and network operators TO DELIVER differentiated, compelling solutions that are driving the next wave in consumer home entertainment.

Solutions

SET-TOP BOX SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS

Trident delivers the major building blocks to enable next-generation set-top box solutions that provide interesting and entertaining TV programming, rich Internet applications, 3D games, and web browsing. With the only 45nm broadcast set-top box chipset on the market, Trident ensures best-in-class OpenGL2.0 3D graphics, superior picture quality, high-power efficiency, web-enabled services (using the ARM Cortex applications processor) and support for a broad range of security systems. Trident’s focus on open platforms enables the easy adoption of a wide range of 3rd party applications, innovative services, and new business models in consumer electronics and content delivery.

TELEVISION SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS

By combining the industry’s only integrated 2D-to-3D converter and spectacular picture quality, Trident is bringing 3D TV to the mainstream, and delivering a completely connected TV platform where consumers can seamlessly surf the web directly from their living room televisions. Trident is significantly enhancing the picture quality of televisions with its line of DTV system-on-chip (SOC) solutions and, frame rate converter products, which feature Trident’s patented Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation technology. Trident’s picture quality is brought to life by a robust suite of system software, middle ware, and platform partnerships.

TRIDENT KEY FACTS

Established: 1987

NASDAQ: TRID

Sample Customers: Arrow, Cisco, Echostar, Humax, LG, Loewe Opta, Logitech, Motorola,
Pace, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, SAC, Sharp, Sony, TechniSat, TCL, TPV, WPI

Employees: Approx. 1,080

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA

CEO: Bami Bastani