Dirk Wieberneit

Micronas GmbH manufactured, developed, produced, and marketed semiconductors, integrated circuits, microprocessors, real-time signal processors, and microcontrollers for the consumer, automotive electronics, and telecommunication fields. The company was founded in July, 2000 and was headquartered in Freiburg, Germany.

Lantiq Deutschland offers a broad and innovative product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. The company has a global team of experts in Europe, North America, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific regions. The company specializes in broadband communications encompassing analog, digital and mixed-signal ICs along with comprehensive software suites. Lantiq Deutschland is a fabless company and its semiconductor solutions are deployed by major carriers and in home networks in every region of the world. Lantiq Deutschland was founded on July 24, 2009 and is headquartered in Neubiberg, Germany.

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.