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 h ...

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

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

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

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, co ...

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

and reference designs. One of its early

customers was e.Digital Corporation, a San Diego-based company that developed the digEplayer portable audio/video

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device under contract by Tacoma, Washington-based APS, now named digEcor. Ittiam Systems demonstrated its HEVC and VP9 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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Electronics companies established in 2001 Digital signal processors Electronics companies of India Ittiam 2001 establishments in Karnataka