Founded in 2005 in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, and led by Amine Chabane, Marseille, Inc. is a visionary company offering core technology expertise in video processing, compression and networking, and it is transforming the way semiconductors are designed, prototyped and built.

As the leader of a new wave of fabless semiconductor companies and creator of chip virtualization and Quad-HD video processing technology, Marseille has pioneered a method allowing it to bring new chips to market quickly, cost-effectively and collaboratively. Taking the approach of many successful companies such as Dell and Intuit, Marseille builds upon its deep understanding of customer needs, and the ability to deliver appropriate technologies to market quickly.

Marseille has developed a new fabless semiconductor business model that incorporates a groundbreaking Virtual Silicon chip design and a prototyping platform that relies on very close customer collaboration. The Virtual Silicon platform is a real-time hybrid hardware/software simulation “operating system” that enables the exploration of chip concepts in a system prototype, ensuring that first-silicon is fully market validated, cost-optimized and ready for mass production.

The Virtual Silicon chip-generating platform, in addition to Marseille’s unprecedented OEM design collaboration model, resulted in the company winning the 2010 Red Herring North America 100 Award. Its first products are chips designed to deliver high-quality cinematic video playback targeted at the fast-growing 3D/4K HDTV market.

Marseille is currently working closely with top OEMs, flat-panel manufacturers and silicon providers using the Virtual Silicon methodology to address challenges in the introduction of Quad-HD resolution displays, and the company’s innovative business model and digital processing expertise enable a wide range of consumer devices including:

• HDTVs, Blu-ray players and AVRs, and set-top boxes
• All-in-One PCs and tablet computers
• Mobile Smart phones and other handheld devices such as media players and digital cameras

Marseille, Inc.'s management team brings decades of expertise and innovation in video and networking chip design, as well as deep experience in DVD, Blu-ray, set-top boxes, and HDTV SoC design and high-quality compression. The team also has extensive experience developing first-time working silicon, and has successfully delivered millions of digital chips to market.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Marseille employs a core team of more than 20 people, who have been with the company since its inception, and are responsible for developing its patent-pending Virtual Silicon and VTV technologies.