Sigma Designs, Inc. · Milpitas, CA United States ·(NASDAQ (GM): SIGM)

Everyone loves to watch videos these days, and that's just fine with Sigma Designs, which designs semiconductors for use in HDTVs and portable media players. The company's secure media processors go into set-top boxes for Internet protocol TVs, while its VXP video image processors are incorporated into digital cinema projectors and videoconferencing systems. Sigma Designs, which outsources the fabrication of its chips to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, also offers services such as custom development of MPEG decoding chips and software support. Customers include Cisco Systems (22% of sales), Motorola, and Panasonic. More than half of Sigma Designs' sales comes from customers in Asia. To read the full description, subscribe now.