21 Facts About Sigma Designs

Sigma Designs owns the intellectual property and was one of two chip makers for the Z-Wave home control technology.

Sigma Designs was founded in 1982 and is based in Fremont, California, with locations in Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Japan, Netherlands and Singapore.

Sigma Designs began making boards for computers, such as the ReelMagic MPEG decoder.

In late 2007 Sigma Designs released the first 1080p capable media player chipset, the SMP863x.

Sigma Designs' products were sold worldwide through a direct sales force and distributors.

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On January 23,2018, Sigma Designs announced it was unable to meet certain closing conditions, and instead it planned to sell its Z-Wave business to Silicon Labs for $240m, and liquidate the company.

On February 8,2008, Sigma Designs completed its acquisition of Canadian manufacturer Gennum's VXP image processing business.

In January 2011, Sigma Designs announced it was adding the VXP technology to its SMP8910 system-on-a-chip.

On December 18,2008, Sigma Designs announced the acquisition of California-based Zensys, a company that provides the wireless mesh networking technology Z-Wave.

On October 14,2009, Sigma Designs purchased Israeli home-networking chip maker CopperGate for $160 million in cash and stock.

Sigma Designs has since updated HomePlug AV to include ClearPath, an award-winning technology which significantly increases throughput.

Sigma Designs provides system-on-a-chip products to deliver entertainment and control to consumers:.

On July 9,2010, Sigma Designs announced its media processors were used by French company, Free Inc, to deliver the first 3D broadcasts of the World Cup, as well as Europe's first ongoing 3D content.

Sigma Designs offers media and video processing technology, with the SMP8910 and SMP8670 processors, introduced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.

In June 2011, Sigma Designs announced an “Ultra-Thin Set-Top Box” reference platform named Skini that provides over-the-top content along with over-the-air and cable functionality.

Sigma Designs develops and markets the Z-Wave protocol for home control.

On May 23,2011, Sigma Designs announced Japanese manufacturer Mitsumi as a licensed second source for Z-Wave technology.

Sigma Designs secured Verizon as a partner, with the telecom giant expected to roll out home control and security services through Z-Wave in the fall of 2011.

In July 2002, Sigma Designs released an MPEG-4 video codec called the REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec.

Sigma Designs was contacted and confirmed that a programmer had based REALmagic on Xvid, but assured that all GPL code would be replaced to avoid copyright infringement.

When Sigma Designs released the supposedly rewritten REALmagic codec, the Xvid developers immediately disassembled it and concluded that it still contained Xvid code, only rearranged in an attempt to disguise its presence.