Samsung Selects Trident's DPTV™3DPRO and PanelPro™Multimedia (PMM) Technologies to Power its 32″ HDTV-Ready LCD TV

Sunnyvale, California. June 25, 2003:

The Digital Media business unit of Trident Microsystems,

Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID),

a world-wide leader in developing cutting-edge Digital TV

technology for the consumer digital video marketplace, today

announced that Samsung Electronics Co., a global leader in

semiconductors, consumer electronics industry, and digital

convergence technology, selected Trident¡¯s DPTV™3DPRO

video processor and PanelPro™Multimedia (PMM) LCD controller

architecture to power Samsung's flagship HDTV-ready LCD TV

product, Model #LT32A2.

“Samsung is committed to being the leader in bringing high-quality, large-sized LCD TVs to the worldwide market to immerse people in the home theatre experience. Samsung's Digital Natural Image Engine (DNIe) works in tandem with Trident DPTV™3DPro's advanced 3D decoder and cinema-realistic de-interlacer and PanelPro™Multimedia's PC and HDTV signal processing to deliver the best video quality possible for large-sized 32″ LCD TVs ” said Mr. Jay Lee, director, Research and Development Team, Visual Display Division, Samsung Electronics Co.

“We are very excited that Samsung, a world leader in LCD TVs, has once again selected our DPTV™3DPRO and PMM chips to power its flagship HDTV-ready LCD TVs,” said Dr. J.H. Chang, president of the Digital Media business unit of Trident. “It demonstrates that the high-quality and versatility of our DPTV™ and PMM solution is scalable to support the new generation of large-sized LCD TVs. The pursuit of perfection in video quality is our long-term commi™ent. It is a passion. Working closely with a first-tier LCD TV manufacturer such as Samsung will greatly help us in striding forward. We will continue our drive towards perfecting the video quality with pin-to-pin compatible products in the near future.”

Trident's DPTV™3DPRO integrates an advanced third-generation 3D digital comb video decoder for NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats. Based on Trident's patented proprietary unified memory architecture (UMA), DPTV™3DPRO digital comb video decoder requires no extra frame buffers for performing 3D comb filtering. With film-mode recovery, DPTV™3DPRO correctly detects the frame rates of incoming video sources and then dynamically restores the video source to the original film mode sequences in play back. The motion adaptive de-interlacing and edge-smoothing feature of DPTV™3DPRO refines the video display quality. DPTV™3DPRO enables a SDTV signal to display in Picture-in-Picture mode, Picture-Out-Picture mode, and 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio modes. DPTV™3DPRO supports non-linear scaling in the panorama mode to ensure the most natural picture aspect ratio for viewers. DPTV™3DPRO supports RGB output up to 1240x1024x60 resolution. DPTV™3DPRO has a built-in VBI circuit for Closed Captioning and V-chip for parental control that is EIA 608 compliant. Furthermore, DPTV™3DPRO's graphic-based On-Screen Display provides the most user-friendly and graphic-oriented TV menu control interface. The video stream can be refreshed in either the Interlace or the Progressive modes.

The PanelPro™Multimedia (PMM) is an advanced highly integrated and high-quality LCD controller chip that is designed with an external CPU for maximum system design flexibility. The PMM video processor integrates an advanced clamping circuitry, pre-amp functions, three 135mHz high precision 8-bit and high-speed ADCs, two independent line-locked PLL sync separator circuitries, and a cubic-4 scaling engine. PMM has a dual 24-bit digital RGB port, SYNC inputs, and a separated 8/16-bit digital port for video decoder connection. PMM is capable of accepting analog RGB inputs up to SXGA resolution and HDTV digital inputs up to 1080i. PMM accepts digital video signals (D1 480i, D2 480P, D3 1080i, and D4 720P) via its 8/16-bit YUV CCIR601 or 8-bit CCIR656 video ports. Through PMM's 48-bit digital output, PMM delivers high-quality PC graphics and HDTV images to the respective LCD display devices.

Forward-Looking Information

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the company's expectations for the DPTV#8482; market, and designs for the DPTV#8482; product. The forward-looking statements above are subject to certain risks, and actual results could vary materially depending on a number of factors. These risks include, in particular, trends in the television industry, the results of Trident's sales and shipment activities to television manufacturers, Trident's ability to timely introduce new or follow-on products, Trident¡¯s success in implementing planned production, competitive pressures, including pricing and competitors' new product introductions. Additional factors that may affect the Company's business are described in detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor,

telecommunication, and digital convergence technology. Samsung

Electronics employs approximately 64,000 people in 89 offices

in 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer

of memory chips, TFT-LCDs, CDMA mobile phones, monitors and

VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of four main business units:

Digital Media Network, Device Solution Network, Telecommunication

Network and Digital Appliance Network Businesses. For more

information, please visit http://www.samsung.com

About Trident Microsystems,

Inc.

Trident Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Sunnyvale,

California, designs, develops and markets digital media for

the masses in the form of graphics controllers and multimedia

integrated circuits (ICs) for both desktop and portable computing

applications and digital processing ICs for TVs and TV monitors.

Trident's products are sold through a network of OEMs, original

design manufacturers, and system integrators worldwide. Please

visit http://www.tridentmicro.com

for more information.

Trident is a registered trademark of Trident Microsystems; Inc. DPTV™ is a trademark of Trident Microsystems, Inc. Sony and Aiwa are registered trademarks of Sony Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice.