Trident Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, designs, develops, and markets digital media for the masses in the form of integrated circuits for Digital Television (LCD, PDP, High Definition, Digital CRT, Micro Display Projection, set-top boxes) and AV Multimedia PCs. Trident's products are sold to a network of OEMs, ODMs, and system integrators worldwide.

Trident has been developing products for digital media applications since 1999. The digital telvision market has begun to emerge as a high volume market for these products. Our SVP^TM and HiDTV^TM products are designed to optimize and enhance video quality across all types of digital television platforms, including LCD, PDP, projection, and digital CRT. Trident's current SVP^TM and HiDTV^TM line of products utilizes the 7th generation of video display technology.

Trident's principle design, development and marketing efforts focus primarily on digital media products. With each successive generation, Trident continues to develop the next generation SVP^TM and HiDTV^TM products as well as other advanced products for the Digital TV and Digital set-top box worldwide market. These markets include the Americas, Europe, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Designed for system design flexibility, and high integration level, Trident's goal is for users of the single chip SVP^TM and HiDTV^TM Video Processors to benefit from feature rich devices at competitive price points.