Silicon Image
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Company type | Public (NASDAQ:SIMG |
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Industry | Semiconductors |
Founded | 1995 |
Headquarters | , USA |
Products | Consumer Electronics |
Subsidiaries | Simplay Labs, LLC |
Website | http://www.siliconimage.com/ |
Silicon Image is an American semiconductor design company. The company manufactures a variety of integrated circuits commonly used in modern computers and consumer electronic devices. But is focused on storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics, personal computing, and mobile device markets. The company was founded in 1995, and is traded on the NASDAQ market under the symbol SIMG. The company, which employs around 600 people, is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Simplay Labs, LLC (http://www.SimplayLabs.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, offers testing tools, technologies, support services, consulting and product certification to electronics manufacturers to increase performance, interoperability and ensure the quality.
The company's products include high-speed communications devices for use in DVI capable displays and PCs, HDMI set-top boxes, DVD players, AV receivers, displays, PCs and mobile devices; and SATA chipsets for internal and external hard disk drives.
Silicon Image recently unveiled a chipset and technology architecture that enables portable devices (cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, digital cameras and camcorders) to connect directly to HDTV HDMI connections called Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL). The new chipsets enable HDMI ports using 5 pins compared to a standard 19 pin HDMI port, which is ideal for lower-power mobile devices.
The company has recently unvieled an HDMI port consisting of 5 pins compared to the standard 19 pin port called the Mobile High-definition Link (MHL).
2007-01-04 Acquisition of sci-worx GmbH. [1]
Product alerts
Silicon Image has released the SII3112[2], SII3114 and SII3512 S-ATA controller chips, which may cause corrupt data[3] unless driver workarounds to correct compatibility problems with certain disk drive models are included [4][5][6]. When activated with the affected disc drives, these workarounds will often cause significantly diminished performance in a system[7]. In addition, users are strongly cautioned to ensure that their drivers include these workarounds to avoid the loss of important data.
See also
References
- ^ "Silicon Image - News & Events".
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: Text "Press Releases" ignored (help) 070808 siliconimage.com - ^ "Silicon Image - Product - SiI3112 - PCI to 2 Port SATA150".
- ^ "SATA bluescreens Windows XP (ntfs.sys) Seagate 80gb / SII 3112 controller - TechSpot Troubleshooting". 070808 techspot.com}}
- ^ "Re: SiI 3112 & Seagate drivers - osdir.com".
- ^ "sata_sil: clean up and add errata/workaround documentation - gmane.org".
- ^ "Re: Need advice on SATA Hard disk and Controller which is 100% Linux Compatible (10-Aug-2005) - ubuntuforums.org".
- ^ "Re: Need advice on SATA Hard disk and Controller which is 100% Linux Compatible (11-Aug-2005) - ubuntuforums.org".