Silicon Image

Silicon Image Inc. was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Hillsboro, Oregon, and active from 1995 to 2015.

The company designed circuits for mobile phones, consumer electronics and personal computers (PCs).

The company's semiconductor and IP products were deployed by manufacturers in devices such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions (DTVs), and other consumer electronics, as well as desktop and notebook PCs.

Silicon Image, in cooperation with other companies, was influential in the creation of some global industry standards such as DVI, HDMI, MHL, and WirelessHD.

The company reached peak employment of around 600 people worldwide and had regional engineering and sales offices in India, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, before being acquired by Lattice Semiconductor in 2015.

This Silicon Image card adds a DVI output to PCs that have built-in Intel graphics hardware supporting SDVO