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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;22, 2007<BR>
Registration No.&nbsp;333-________</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8<BR>
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">3408 Garrett Drive<BR>
Santa Clara, California 95054-2803<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)</DIV>



<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Trident Microsystems, Inc.<BR>
2006 Equity Incentive Plan</B><BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plan)</DIV>



<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">David L. Teichmann<BR>
General Counsel, Vice President of Human Resources<BR>
and Corporate Secretary<BR>
Trident Microsystems, Inc.<BR>
3408 Garrett Drive<BR>
Santa Clara, California 95054-2803<BR>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (408)&nbsp;764-8808.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with Rule&nbsp;462
promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><U><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></U>
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<TD nowrap align="left"><B>Registered</B><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top"><B>[1]</B></sup></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="3"><B>Per
Share</B><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top"><B>[3]</B></SUP></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="3"><B>Offering
Price</B><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top"><B>[3]</B></SUP></TD>
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<TD valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Common
Stock ($0.01 par value) to be issued under the 2006 Equity
Incentive Plan
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    <TD align="right" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">4,350,000</TD>
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<TD colspan="3" align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$62,988,000</TD>

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    <TD>The securities to be registered include
options and rights to acquire Common Stock and include shares available for
issuance upon the exercise of equity awards under the Trident Microsystems,
Inc. 2006 Equity Incentive Plan.</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416(a), this registration
statement also covers any additional securities that may be offered or issued
in connection with any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction.</TD>
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    <TD>Calculated solely for purposes of this
offering under Rule&nbsp;457(h), the price is based upon the average of the high and
low prices of the Common Stock on August&nbsp;21, 2007 as reported on the Nasdaq
Global Select Market.</TD>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000"><U>Item&nbsp;3</U>. <U>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</U></A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#001"><u>Item&nbsp;4</u>. <u>Description of Securities</u></A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#002"><u>Item&nbsp;5</u>. <u>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</u></A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#003"><u>Item&nbsp;6.</u> <u>Indemnification of Directors and Officers</u></A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#005"><U>Item&nbsp;8</U>. <U>Exhibits</U></A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#007"><U>SIGNATURE</U></A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#008"><U>POWER OF ATTORNEY</U></A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART II</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><U><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B></U>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Trident Microsystems, Inc. (the &#147;<B><I>Company</I></B>&#148;) hereby incorporates by reference in this
registration statement the following documents:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The Company&#146;s annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;<B><I>Exchange Act</I></B>&#148;), containing audited financial
statements for the Company&#146;s fiscal year ended June&nbsp;30, 2006, as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;7, 2007.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the
end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant document referred to in (a)&nbsp;above.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;The description of the Company&#146;s Common Stock contained in the Company&#146;s Registration
Statement on Form 8-A, pursuant to Section&nbsp;12 of the Exchange Act, File No.&nbsp;0-20784, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on October&nbsp;27, 1992, effective December&nbsp;15, 1992, including any
amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;102(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation to provide in
its Certificate of Incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
to a corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the
director&#146;s &#147;duty of care.&#148; While this statute does not change the directors&#146; duty of care, it
enables corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as injunction or
rescission. The statute has no effect on a director&#146;s duty of loyalty or liability for acts or
omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law,
illegal payment of dividends or stock redemptions or repurchases, or for any transaction from which
the director derives an improper personal benefit. As permitted by the statute, the Company has
adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation which eliminate to the fullest extent
permissible under Delaware law the personal liability of its directors to the Company and its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their duty of care.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents of a corporation. The Bylaws of the
Company provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees and agents to the full
extent permitted by Delaware law,

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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">including those circumstances in which indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under
Delaware law. The Company&#146;s Bylaws also empower it to enter into indemnification agreements with
its directors, officers and key employees and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or
permitted to indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and certain of
its executive officers and key employees that require the Company to indemnify such persons to the
fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and
other amounts actually and reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in
connection with any proceeding, whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made
a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director
or an executive officer or key employee of the
Company or any of its affiliated enterprises. The indemnification agreements also set forth
certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for
indemnification in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)&nbsp;To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
amendment to this registration statement:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)&nbsp;To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii)&nbsp;To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the
registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or
in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
statement;
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previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in
the registration statement;
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U><I>provided, however</I></U>, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
registrant pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in the registration statement.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a)
or Section 15(d) of the
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#146;s annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted
to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled
by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Clara, State of California, on
August&nbsp;22, 2007.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">John S. Edmunds</FONT>
&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">John S. Edmunds&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Chief Financial Officer&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints Glen M. Antle and John S. Edmunds, each of them acting individually, as his attorney-in-fact,
with the full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file same, with exhibits thereto and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every
act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents
and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming our
signatures as they may be signed by our said attorney-in-fact and any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed
below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ Glen M. Antle</FONT>
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<I>Glen M. Antle</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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Acting Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the
Board and Director <BR><I>(Principal
Executive Officer)</I>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ John S. Edmunds</FONT>
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<I>John S. Edmunds</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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Chief Financial Officer<BR>
<I>(Principal Financial Officer)</I>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ Chris P. Siu</FONT>
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<I>Chris P. Siu</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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Chief Accounting Officer and
Director of Finance <BR><I>(Principal Accounting Officer)</I>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ Brian R. Bachman</FONT>
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<I>Brian R. Bachman</I></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ Hans Geyer</FONT>
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<I>Hans Geyer</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ Raymond K. Ostby</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
<I>Raymond K. Ostby</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ Millard Phelps</FONT>
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<I>Millard Phelps</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 22, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Specimen Common Stock Certificate.<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Form of Rights Agreement between the Company and ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, LLC, as
Rights Agent (including as Exhibit&nbsp;A the form of Certificates of Designation, Preferences
and Rights of the Terms of the Series&nbsp;A Preferred Stock, as Exhibit&nbsp;B the form of Right
Certificate, and as Exhibit&nbsp;C the Summary of Terms of Rights Agreement).<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(2)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion re legality.<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(3)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5).<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(3)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(3)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration statement).<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(3)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD>Incorporated by reference from exhibit of the same number to the Company&#146;s Registration
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Incorporated by reference from Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 22, 2007
Registration No. 333-________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
77-0156584
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. employer identification no.)
3408 Garrett Drive
Santa Clara, California 95054-2803
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Trident Microsystems, Inc.
2006 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
David L. Teichmann
General Counsel, Vice President of Human Resources
and Corporate Secretary
Trident Microsystems, Inc.
3408 Garrett Drive
Santa Clara, California 95054-2803
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (408) 764-8808.
This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with Rule 462
promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
Title of
Proposed Maximum
Maximum
Proposed
Securities to be
Amount to be
Offering Price
Maximum Aggregate
Amount of
Registered
[1]
Registered
[2]
Per
Share
[3]
Offering
Price
[3]
Registration Fee
Common
Stock ($0.01 par value) to be issued under the 2006 Equity
Incentive Plan
4,350,000
$14.48
$62,988,000
$1,933.73
1
The securities to be registered include
options and rights to acquire Common Stock and include shares available for
issuance upon the exercise of equity awards under the Trident Microsystems,
Inc. 2006 Equity Incentive Plan.
2
Pursuant to Rule 416(a), this registration
statement also covers any additional securities that may be offered or issued
in connection with any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction.
3
Calculated solely for purposes of this
offering under Rule 457(h), the price is based upon the average of the high and
low prices of the Common Stock on August 21, 2007 as reported on the Nasdaq
Global Select Market.
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Item 3
.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Item 4
.
Description of Securities
Item 5
.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Item 7
.
Exemption From Registration Claimed
Item 8
.
Exhibits
Item 9.
Undertakings
SIGNATURE
POWER OF ATTORNEY
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 5
EXHIBIT 23.2
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3
.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Trident Microsystems, Inc. (the "
Company
") hereby incorporates by reference in this
registration statement the following documents:
(a) The Company's annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "
Exchange Act
"), containing audited financial
statements for the Company's fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on August 7, 2007.
(b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the
end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant document referred to in (a) above.
(c) The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the Company's Registration
Statement on Form 8-A, pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, File No. 0-20784, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 1992, effective December 15, 1992, including any
amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Item 4
.
Description of Securities
The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
Item 5
.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Inapplicable.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 102(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation to provide in
its Certificate of Incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
to a corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the
director's "duty of care." While this statute does not change the directors' duty of care, it
enables corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as injunction or
rescission. The statute has no effect on a director's duty of loyalty or liability for acts or
omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law,
illegal payment of dividends or stock redemptions or repurchases, or for any transaction from which
the director derives an improper personal benefit. As permitted by the statute, the Company has
adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation which eliminate to the fullest extent
permissible under Delaware law the personal liability of its directors to the Company and its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their duty of care.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents of a corporation. The Bylaws of the
Company provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees and agents to the full
extent permitted by Delaware law,
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including those circumstances in which indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under
Delaware law. The Company's Bylaws also empower it to enter into indemnification agreements with
its directors, officers and key employees and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or
permitted to indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and certain of
its executive officers and key employees that require the Company to indemnify such persons to the
fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and
other amounts actually and reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in
connection with any proceeding, whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made
a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director
or an executive officer or key employee of the
Company or any of its affiliated enterprises. The indemnification agreements also set forth
certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for
indemnification in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act.
Item 7
.
Exemption From Registration Claimed
Inapplicable.
Item 8
.
Exhibits
See Exhibit Index.
Item 9.
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the
registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or
in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in
the registration statement;
provided, however
, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a)
or Section 15(d) of the
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Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted
to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled
by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Clara, State of California, on
August 22, 2007.
TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
By:
/s/
John S. Edmunds
John S. Edmunds
Chief Financial Officer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints Glen M. Antle and John S. Edmunds, each of them acting individually, as his attorney-in-fact,
with the full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file same, with exhibits thereto and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every
act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents
and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming our
signatures as they may be signed by our said attorney-in-fact and any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed
below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Signature
Capacity
Date
/s/ Glen M. Antle
Glen M. Antle
Acting Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the
Board and Director
(Principal
Executive Officer)
August 22, 2007
/s/ John S. Edmunds
John S. Edmunds
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
August 22, 2007
/s/ Chris P. Siu
Chris P. Siu
Chief Accounting Officer and
Director of Finance
(Principal Accounting Officer)
August 22, 2007
/s/ Brian R. Bachman
Brian R. Bachman
Director
August 22, 2007
/s/ Hans Geyer
Hans Geyer
Director
August 22, 2007
/s/ Raymond K. Ostby
Raymond K. Ostby
Director
August 22, 2007
/s/ Millard Phelps
Millard Phelps
Director
August 22, 2007
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Description
4.2
Specimen Common Stock Certificate.
(1)
4.3
Form of Rights Agreement between the Company and ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, LLC, as
Rights Agent (including as Exhibit A the form of Certificates of Designation, Preferences
and Rights of the Terms of the Series A Preferred Stock, as Exhibit B the form of Right
Certificate, and as Exhibit C the Summary of Terms of Rights Agreement).
(2)
5
Opinion re legality.
(3)
23.1
Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5).
(3)
23.2
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
(3)
24
Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration statement).
(3)
(1)
Incorporated by reference from exhibit of the same number to the Company's Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-53768).
(2)
Incorporated by reference from Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 21, 1998.
(3)
Filed herewith.