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PixSil Technology Corporation was founded in January 2002 with the goal
of providing superior video compression technology and configurable
semiconductor-based solutions for a broad range of digital video applications.
Our mission is “to be the premier supplier of Semiconductor-based solutions
for broadband multimedia applications.”
PixSil Technology is a privately held, fabless semiconductor company,
featuring expertise in video compression, DSP & image processing,
parallel computing, TCP/IP and wireless networking technology. The management and engineering team at PixSil, has extensive experience in
creating innovative, highly integrated System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions
for consumer and commercial markets.
PixSil's team has worked together successfully for many years at other companies
in Southern California.
Each member of the team brings their unique talent in engineering, management, and
business to form the corporation of PixSil Technology. Leveraging its technology and
experience across a wide range of markets, PixSil Technology provides
advanced features and unprecedented levels of integration, performance and
quality, enabling complete, scalable and highly configurable multimedia
communication systems.
PixSil Technology has its headquarters in Newport Beach, California. The most compelling applications for future mobile and Web-enabled devices will be imaging based, whether capturing video for e-mail or videophones, or receiving an audio/video stream from the Internet or another caller. Imagine watching the Lord of the Rings - not in the movie theater but over an Internet protocol (IP) network on a Web-enabled device, with crystal clear video image quality. Or watching a movie clip on your mobile phone before deciding on which film to see one afternoon, or receiving a video e-mail on your Dick Tracy watch will soon be no pipe dream. A quiet revolution is also occurring in the security and surveillance (CCTV) world, where surveillance and monitoring systems are moving from analog video to IP network video using the latest digital video compression technology, thereby replacing the blotchy security video seen on TV crime shows with crisp, high-quality images that can be viewed and searched around the world. To meet the challenges unique to video transmission over IP networks, content providers and network operators are adopting MPEG-4 to provide high-quality video over a network with limited, variable bandwidth. MPEG-4 includes state-of-the-art compression techniques, which allow it to provide greater compression and higher quality than earlier standards. A new extension to MPEG-4 standard, called MPEG-4 part 10, is expected to be completed by year’s end, and promises to improve coding efficiencies by 50 percent and achieve resolutions ranging from [standard-definition] TV to HDTV and digital cinema. Already, a number of consumer product industries are adopting the MPEG-4 part 10 and are applying it to the existing and futuristic systems: from mobile phones, PDAs and camcorders for wired and wireless video communications to digital set-top boxes or personal computers for interactive TV applications and streaming-media content delivered via the Internet. They include advanced DVD players that will play back high-definition movies with interactive content and personal video recorders storing high-quality audio/video files. In short, we see great market opportunities in the following applications for tomorrow’s multimedia consumer devices:
PixSil’s management team has over 100 years of combined experience in the high tech industry.
The members of the team have been actively involved in the businees of developing very complex
semiconductor (ASIC) products in the area of digital multimedia and networking for the past 15 years.
They have come to PixSil from companies such as AMCC, General Instrument, Hughes, Intrinsix,
McDonnell-Douglas, Philips, Qualcomm.
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