Trident Microsystems
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: TRID | |
| Industry | Fabless semiconductors |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Frank C. Lin |
| Defunct | 2012 |
| Fate | Chapter 11 bankruptcy |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | |
| 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) |
| US$40 million (FY 2007) | |
| US$30 million (FY 2007) | |
Number of employees | 565 (2008) |
| Website | tridentmicro.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-03-30) |
| Footnotes / references | |
Trident Microsystems Inc. was an American 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.