Silicon Optix Inc was a privately held
fabless semiconductor company
Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclu ...
that designed and manufactured video/image digital processing
integrated circuits. Originally a division of
Genesis Microchip
Genesis Microchip Inc. was a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for video processors in flat panel LCD TVs and Monitors. It was founded in 1987 by Paul Russo in Markham, Ontario, Canada and it became a public company in 1998 and employed over ...
, Silicon Optix was spun off in 2000 by Paul Russo, the
CEO of Genesis Microchip at the time. Silicon Optix acquired Teranex and its patents on the
GAPP
GapP is a counting complexity class, consisting of all of the functions ''f'' such that there exists a polynomial-time non-deterministic Turing machine ''M'' where, for any input ''x'', ''f(x)'' is equal to the number of accepting paths of ''M'' ...
, which it incorporated into some of their products.
In June 2008, Flexible Picture Systems (FPS) acquired the box systems business from Silicon Optix, and became the exclusive manufacturer and source for the Image AnyPlace video/graphics scaler with Geometry Correction and Edge Blending. Since 2008, Flexible Picture Systems has continued to develop products based on Silicon Optix video processing technology, and introduced the Image AnyPlace-200 in 2009, and OmniScale-200 in 2010.
In October 2008,
IDT acquired video processing technology and related assets from Silicon Optix. IDT retains the Silicon Optix REON technology.
In May 2009, Paul Russo's new company
GEO Semiconductor Inc acquired the REALTA and GEO technologies of Silicon Optix.
In June 2009, Jupiter Systems acquired the Teranex division (based in Orlando) of Silicon Optix.
''Jupiter Systems Announces Acquisition of Teranex''
on Jupiter web pages
References
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External links
Silicon Optix Homepage
Teranex
Integrated Device Technology
Flexible Picture Systems
Multinational companies
Technology companies established in 2000