Trident Microsystems

<p>Trident Microsystems Inc. was an American <a href="/facts/Fabless_manufacturing/M7wqlG85">fabless semiconductor</a> company that became in the 1990s a well-known supplier of <a href="/facts/Integrated_circuit/fjn6vg7C">integrated circuits</a> (commonly called "chips") for <a href="/facts/Video_display_controller/ISm9E6Nc">video display controllers</a> used in <a href="/facts/Video_card/bcKfPyFt">video cards</a> and on <a href="/facts/Motherboard/GXB10heG">motherboards</a> for <a href="/facts/Desktop_PC/edFPINdK">desktop PCs</a> and <a href="/facts/Laptop/3EFwTAb2">laptops</a>. In 2003, it transformed itself into being a supplier of display processors for digital televisions, and primarily <a href="/facts/LCD_TV/k6YB3J0k">LCD TVs</a> starting from 2005, at a time when the global LCD TV market started showing strong growth.
</p><p>It filed for <a href="/facts/Bankruptcy/EAztPnMf">bankruptcy</a> protection in January 2012 and the delisting of its common stock from the <a href="/facts/NASDAQ/C6GlcQcB">NASDAQ</a> stock market was announced shortly thereafter.
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Trident Microsystems