Magnum Semiconductor offers video compression and processing solutions spanning video distribution end-to-end, from broadcast servers to living room clients and home media servers -- enabling Any Content... Anywhere.

Our portfolio of professional video products serves all segments of the broadcast infrastructure industry, from contribution to production to distribution.  Our products are used in Satellite, Cable, IPTV and Mobile broadcast infrastructure, delivering the industry's best video quality at lowest bit rates and highest channel density. Our offerings include multi-standard, multi-stream, and multi-resolution encoders, decoders and transcoders, for seamless migration from analog to HDTV broadcast. Our multi-standard support allows MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1 formats to coexist side-by-side, each optimized for their own application domains, while our transcoders provide seamless content exchange between these domains without loss of fidelity.

Our portfolio of client products comprises audio/video encoders, transcoders and decoders for the home entertainment market. Our SoC and coprocessor solutions for set-top boxes and digital recorders incorporate our compression technology for content redistribution and archival.  Applications include place-shifting and content on-the-go, as well as recording on optical, magnetic or flash memory.

Built-in seamless compatibility across our broadcast server and living room client products allows service providers to bring new services and technologies rapidly to their customers.  Our customers include industry-leading OEMs for broadcast equipment, set-top boxes, DVRs, and Blu-ray and DVD recorders.

Magnum Semiconductor is privately held with headquarters in Silicon Valley, in Milpitas, California.