Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Silicon Optix

Red Herring Selects Silicon Optix for Prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Innovators Award; Award Recognizes 100 Companies That Embody Innovation

Silicon Optix Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company, is the leading supplier of advanced digital image processing integrated circuits focused on the capture, transmission, and display of digital visual information. Silicon Optix's highly patented IC products enable the convergence of digital image processing and optical system design, making possible a variety of new product categories that could not be economically realized with existing technologies. Silicon Optix is the first company to deliver high performance electronic components that optimize overall image processing/optical systems present in many existing and emerging applications."

The company just raised over $40M in Sept from Apax and Interwest. Very cool revolutionary technology.

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