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<P align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June&nbsp;8, 2005<BR>
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Registration No.&nbsp;333-________



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<P align="center" style="font-size: 14pt"><B>UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 18pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>


<P align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>


<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B>Trident Microsystems, Inc.</B>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">1090 East Arques Avenue<BR>
Sunnyvale, CA 94085


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)</DIV>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">Employee Warrants Assumed by<BR>
Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Granted Under<BR>
the Trident Technologies Inc. Regulations Governing<BR>
Issuance and Subscription of the Employee Option, 2003


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plan)</DIV>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">Frank C. Lin<BR>
President, Chief Executive Officer<BR>
and Chairman of the Board<BR>
1090 East Argues Avenue<BR>
Sunnyvale, CA 94085


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Name and address of agent for service)</DIV>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: 408-991-8800.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">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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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Employee Warrants Assumed by Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Granted Under the Trident Technologies Inc.</U><BR>
<U>Regulations Governing Issuance and Subscription of the Employee Option, 2003</U>


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    <TD align="right" valign="top">2,933,900</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;&#151;</B>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">1</SUP> The securities to be registered are warrants to acquire
Common Stock.</DIV>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">2</SUP> Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), 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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">3</SUP> The offering price is estimated pursuant to Rule&nbsp;457 solely
for purposes of calculating the registration fee. The price is computed on the
basis of the weighted average exercise price of the employee warrants.



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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#001">Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002">Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#007">Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#008">SIGNATURE</A></TD></TR>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">PART II



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</U>


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;3</U>. <U>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Trident Microsystems, Inc. (&#147;the Company&#148;) hereby incorporates by reference in this
registration statement the following documents:



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The Company&#146;s latest 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;Exchange Act&#148;), containing audited
financial statements for the Company&#146;s latest fiscal year ended June&nbsp;30, 2004 as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on September&nbsp;13, 2004.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 document referred to in (a)&nbsp;above.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 filed pursuant to Section&nbsp;12 of the Exchange Act, including any amendment or
report filed for the purpose of updating such description.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;4</U>. <U>Description of Securities</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section&nbsp;12 of the Exchange Act.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;5</U>. <U>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Inapplicable.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;6</U>. <U>Indemnification of Directors and Officers</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 Restated Certificate of Incorporation which eliminate to



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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 Amended and
Restated Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees
and agents to the full extent permitted by Delaware law, including those circumstances in which
indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. The Company&#146;s Amended and
Restated Bylaws also empower it to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and
officers 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 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 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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;7</U>. <U>Exemption From Registration Claimed</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Inapplicable.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;8</U>. <U>Exhibits</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See Exhibit&nbsp;Index.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;9</U>. <U>Undertakings</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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:



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 of 1933;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii)&nbsp;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;

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>provided, however</U>, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(l)(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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 of 1933, each filing of the registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 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.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 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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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&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 Sunnyvale, State of California, on June
8, 2005.


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    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Frank C. Lin
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Frank C. Lin&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">President, Chief Executive
Officer,<BR>
and Chairman of the Board&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>POWER OF ATTORNEY</U>




<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The officers and directors of Trident Microsystems, Inc. whose signatures appear below, hereby
constitute and appoint Frank C. Lin and John S. Edmunds, and each of them, their true and lawful
attorneys and agents, with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and
execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this registration statement on
Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that each of said attorney
and agent, or their or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on June&nbsp;8,
2005.


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    <TD valign="top" align="center"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Signature
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top" align="center">Title</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Frank C. Lin

</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">President, Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board (Principal Executive
Officer)&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>



<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Frank C. Lin</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ John S. Edmunds
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chief Financial Officer</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">John S. Edmunds
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Glen M. Antle
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Glen M. Antle</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Yasushi Chikagami
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Yasushi Chikagami</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ John Luke
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">John Luke</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Millard Phelps
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Millard Phelps</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is incorporated by
reference to Exhibit&nbsp;4.1 of the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-8 as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June&nbsp;20, 1997 (File No.
333-29667).</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Certificate of Amendment of Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company is incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 of the Company&#146;s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
February&nbsp;12, 2004 (File No.&nbsp;000-20784).</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company are incorporated by reference to
Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 of the Company&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on May&nbsp;13, 2004 (File No.&nbsp;000-20784).</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">4.4&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Form of Rights Agreement between the Company and ChaseMellon Shareholder
Services, LLC, as Rights Agent (including as Exhibit&nbsp;A the form of Certificate
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) dated July&nbsp;24, 1998 is incorporated by reference
to Exhibit&nbsp;1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;21, 1998 (File No.&nbsp;000-20784).</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">5&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Opinion re legality</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">23.1&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5)</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">23.2&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">24&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration
statement)</TD>
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Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2005
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.)
1090 East Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
————————————————————————————————
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Employee Warrants Assumed by
Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Granted Under
the Trident Technologies Inc. Regulations Governing
Issuance and Subscription of the Employee Option, 2003
————————————————————————————————————
(Full title of the plan)
Frank C. Lin
President, Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Board
1090 East Argues Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
————————————————————————————————
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: 408-991-8800.
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
Proposed
Title of
maximum
maximum
Securities to be
Amount to be
offering price per
aggregate
Amount of
registered
1
registered
2
share
3
offering price
3
registration fee
Employee Warrants Assumed by Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Granted Under the Trident Technologies Inc.
Regulations Governing Issuance and Subscription of the Employee Option, 2003
Common Stock
2,933,900
$
1.57
$
4,606,223.00
$
542.15
Par Value $0.001
——————
1
The securities to be registered are warrants to acquire
Common Stock.
2
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), 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
The offering price is estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely
for purposes of calculating the registration fee. The price is computed on the
basis of the weighted average exercise price of the employee warrants.
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PART II
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
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 latest 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 latest fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on September 13, 2004.
(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 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 filed pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, 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 Restated Certificate of Incorporation which eliminate to
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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 Amended and
Restated Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees
and agents to the full extent permitted by Delaware law, including those circumstances in which
indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. The Company's Amended and
Restated Bylaws also empower it to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and
officers 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 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 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 of 1933;
(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;
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(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)(l)(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 of 1933, 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 of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 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 of 1933 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 Sunnyvale, State of California, on June
8, 2005.
TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
By:
/s/ Frank C. Lin
Frank C. Lin
President, Chief Executive
Officer,
and Chairman of the Board
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
The officers and directors of Trident Microsystems, Inc. whose signatures appear below, hereby
constitute and appoint Frank C. Lin and John S. Edmunds, and each of them, their true and lawful
attorneys and agents, with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and
execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this registration statement on
Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that each of said attorney
and agent, or their or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on June 8,
2005.
Signature
Title
/s/ Frank C. Lin
President, Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board (Principal Executive
Officer)
Frank C. Lin
/s/ John S. Edmunds
Chief Financial Officer
John S. Edmunds
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Glen M. Antle
Director
Glen M. Antle
/s/ Yasushi Chikagami
Director
Yasushi Chikagami
/s/ John Luke
Director
John Luke
/s/ Millard Phelps
Director
Millard Phelps
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EXHIBIT INDEX
4.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 20, 1997 (File No.
333-29667).
4.2
Certificate of Amendment of Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Company's Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
February 12, 2004 (File No. 000-20784).
4.3
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company are incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 3.3 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on May 13, 2004 (File No. 000-20784).
4.4
Form of Rights Agreement between the Company and ChaseMellon Shareholder
Services, LLC, as Rights Agent (including as Exhibit A the form of Certificate
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) dated July 24, 1998 is incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August 21, 1998 (File No. 000-20784).
5
Opinion re legality
23.1
Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
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Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration
statement)