Michael Economy

Entropic Communications LLC operates as a provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, transforming how streaming IP-based video and high-definition multimedia content and services are delivered and distributed into and throughout the home. The company was founded by Itzhak Gurantz and Anton Monk on January 31, 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. The company designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits and related software for the process, display, and transmission of high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications. These applications are digital TVs (DTV), PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. Its products include system-on-a-chip semiconductors. These provide completely integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals, in order to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound. The firm also produces frame rate converters, demodulators, audio decoder products, interface devices, and media processors. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Synergy Semiconductor Corp. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits using its proprietary Bipolar and BiCMOS processes. Its products include digital logic for advanced system applications, precision mixed-signal time-clock generators for workstations and telecommunication systems, and mixed-signal communications circuits for local and wide area networks. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ViXS Systems, Inc. develops multimedia processor solutions. It provides technologies for processing, managing, securing and distributing video and audio allowing multimedia control, conversion and connectivity between many classes and sizes of digital entertainment device. The firm’s product lines include XCode, XCodePro and XConnex. The company was founded by Indra Laksono and Sally J. Daub in 2010 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.