Trident Microsystems

Trident Microsystems Inc.
Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: TRID
Industry	Fabless semiconductors
Founded	1987
Founder	Frank C. Lin
Defunct	2012
Fate	Bankruptcy
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, USA
Key people	Frank C. Lin (CEO and Chairman, 1987-2006); Jung-Herng Chang (Vice President of Engineering/President, 1995-2008); John S. Edmunds (CFO, 2004-2008); Sylvia Summers (CEO, 2007-2011);
Products	TVGA 8900C, TVGA 9000, TGUI 9440, Cyber 9525DVD, SVP-EX, SVP-LX, SVP-CX, SVP-PX, 4DWave DX, 4DWave NX
Brands	TVGA, DPTV, SVP, DCRe, HiDTV
Revenue	US$271 million (FY 2007)
Operating income	US$40 million (FY 2007)
Net income	US$30 million (FY 2007)
Number of employees	565 (2008)
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Trident Microsystems Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company that became in the 1990s a well-known supplier of integrated circuits (commonly called "chips") for video display controllers used in video cards and on motherboards for desktop PCs and laptops. In 2003, it transformed itself into being a supplier of display processors for digital televisions, and primarily LCD TVs starting from 2005, at a time when the global LCD TV market started showing strong growth.

It filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2012 and the delisting of its common stock from the NASDAQ stock market was announced shortly thereafter.

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