Trident Microsystems to Present at Eighth Annual Needham Growth Conference

Thursday January 5, 7:00 am ET

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID – News), a leader in high performance semiconductor system solutions for the multimedia and digital television markets, today announced that Frank Lin, Trident Microsystems CEO and John Edmunds, CFO will be presenting at the Eighth Annual Needham Growth Conference at The Palace Hotel in New York on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 9:00 a.m., ET. This will be directly after meeting with customers and investors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 5-8, 2006.

A Live audio webcast of the presentation will be accessible through our website @ www.tridentmicro.com or Wall Street Webcasting @ www.wsw.com.

For more information on the Needham growth conference, please visit www.needhamco.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 multimedia integrated circuits for HDTV, LCD TV, PDP TV, DLP TV and DCRT. Trident's products are sold to a network of OEMs, original design manufacturers and system integrators worldwide. For further information about Trident and its products, please consult the Company's web site: http://www.tridentmicro.com .