Magnum Semiconductor Inc. is a video compression technology company. The headquarters of the company is in Milpitas, California

California

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. The company has an engineering branch at Waterloo, Ontario

Waterloo, Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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Magnum Semiconductor is a spinout of the Cirrus Logic

Cirrus Logic

Cirrus Logic is a fabless semiconductor supplier specializing in analog, mixed-signal, and audio DSP integrated circuits . They are presently headquartered in Austin, Texas. Their audio processors and audio converters are found in many professional audio and consumer entertainment products,...

 Video Division which pioneered MPEG video recording and enabled high volume, affordable DVD Recorder

DVD recorder

A DVD recorder , is an optical disc recorder that uses Optical disc recording technologies to digitally record analog signal or digital signals onto blank writable DVD media...

s in 2003. Magnum also acquired the consumer products division of LSI Corporation

LSI Corporation

LSI Corporation is an electronics company based in Milpitas, California that designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks.-History:...

 in 2007, adding the industry leading Domino video compression technology to its portfolio. (The division had started with the acquisition of C-Cube

C-Cube

C-Cube Microsystems was a pioneer in video compression technology as well as the implementation of that technology into cost-effective semiconductors...

 Microsystems, the first company to offer real time MPEG1 and MPEG2 compression). The company's products therefore now target both professional and consumer markets.

Magnum offers a complete set of chips, software, reference platforms, and engineering support for digital video recording, playback and management of audio/video content. The Magnum platforms also enable sharing entertainment via optical disc, flash disk and networking inside the home.

Magnum's consumer products are currently found in video recorder products of CE leading manufacturers at a wide range of retail chains including BestBuy, Circuit City

Circuit City

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, Target

Target Corporation

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, Carrefour

Carrefour

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, Dixons

Dixons

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, Aldi

ALDI

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, and many other retailers of consumer electronics.

As of 2008, company's CEO is Gopal Solanki, the former VP of nVidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

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