Silicon Optix

Silicon Optix Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company that designed image- and video-processing chips, best known for its Realta HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) processor for high-definition video scaling, de-interlacing, and noise reduction, and for the Teranex line of professional video processors. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners, it was acquired by Integrated Device Technology (IDT) in 2008 (IDT was subsequently acquired by Renesas). The company operated as a hardware/chip vendor and did not publish a public developer API; its historical primary domain (siliconoptix.com) no longer resolves. This profile is retained as a network stub with no live API surface.

Silicon Optix is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Video Processing, Hardware, and Chips.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Silicon Optix
description: Silicon Optix Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company that designed image- and video-processing chips, best
  known for its Realta HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) processor for high-definition video scaling, de-interlacing, and noise
  reduction, and for the Teranex line of professional video processors. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners,
  it was acquired by Integrated Device Technology (IDT) in 2008 (IDT was subsequently acquired by Renesas). The company operated
  as a hardware/chip vendor and did not publish a public developer API; its historical primary domain (siliconoptix.com) no
  longer resolves. This profile is retained as a network stub with no live API surface.
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