Ittiam Systems is a

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

funded technology company founded by ex-Managing Director of Texas Instruments' India Srini Rajam in 2001. It is headquartered in

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

, India and has marketing offices in the

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, UK,

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and

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. Ittiam Systems is India's first technology firm to be based on licensing of

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(IP). Revenue is mainly generated through licensing of its DSP

and

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s. One of its early

customers was e.Digital Corporation, a San Diego-based company that developed the

digEplayer The "digEplayer" is a product line of "digEcor." digEplayers are self-contained, portable audio video on demand (AVOD) hard-disk based digital entertainment devices. Similar in size to a portable DVD player, digEplayers are pre-programmed with ...

portable audio/video

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device under contract by Tacoma, Washington-based APS, now named

digEcor The "digEplayer" is a product line of "digEcor." digEplayers are self-contained, portable audio video on demand (AVOD) hard-disk based digital entertainment devices. Similar in size to a portable DVD player, digEplayers are pre-programmed with ...

. Ittiam Systems demonstrated its HEVC and

VP9 VP9 is an open and royalty-free video coding format developed by Google. VP9 is the successor to VP8 and competes mainly with MPEG's High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265). At first, VP9 was mainly used on Google's video platform YouTube. ...

implementations accelerated using ARM Mali-T600 GPU Compute technology at CES 2014 and MWC 2014.Ittiam HEVC / VP9 Decoders on ARM Platform (MWC 2014)
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Ittiam Ittiam Systems is a venture capital funded technology company founded by ex-Managing Director of Texas Instruments' India Srini Rajam in 2001. It is headquartered in Bangalore, India and has marketing offices in the United States, UK, France, ...

2001 establishments in Karnataka