Xperi

Xperi Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that develops software for consumer electronics and connected cars, as well as media platforms for video service over broadband. The company is organized into four business units: Pay TV, Consumer Electronics, Connected Car, and Media Platform. Xperi's brands include DTS, HD Radio, and TiVo.

Xperi Inc. was formerly part of Xperi Holding Corporation,[2] which was itself the result of several mergers and acquisitions over many years, including publicly traded firms such as DTS, Inc. and TiVo Corporation.

History

Xperi Holding Corporation traces its roots to Tessera, Inc., which was founded in 1990 and renamed Tessera Technologies, Inc. prior to its initial public offering in 2003.[3] Tessera developed chip-scale packaging technologies that were broadly licensed in the semiconductor industry.

In 2008, Tessera acquired FotoNation,[4]

Products

Products within Xperi's four business units are:

Pay TV

Classic Guides – providing interactive programming guides for linear TV through set-top boxes.
Personalized Content Discovery (PCD)[17] – a content discovery platform providing metadata and search and recommendations technology to discover and recommend appropriate content across linear TV, subscription, and internet-delivered programing.
IPTV – Streaming video services and interactive programming guides across internet protocol (IP) networks provided as either a fully-managed service or software download to a set-top box, mobile, or web device.[18]
Consumer Hardware and Subscriptions –TiVo DVR hardware and subscriptions.
TiVo+(plus) – free ad-supported streaming service providing more than 150 channels of TV and video on demand content.[19]

Consumer Electronics

DTS:X – high-definition audio codec supporting creation, distribution and playback of immersive audio for cinema, and consumer electronics such as TVs, soundbars, AV equipment, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices.[20]
DTS Headphone:X – Spatial audio technology supporting rendering of immersive audio from movies, music, and gaming on headphones.[21]
IMAX Enhanced – a partnership between IMAX Corporation and DTS to bring the immersive technology used in cinema directly to consumer electronics, laptops, desktops, and certain portable devices.[22]
DTS Play-Fi – Whole-home wireless audio technology for consumer electronic devices.[23]

Connected Car

HD Radio – broadcast standard for North American digital radio across the FM and AM band.
DTS AutoStage – in-cabin entertainment platform combining broadcast radio, music, video and gaming delivered across internet protocol (IP) networks to automobiles.[24]

Media Platform

TiVo Operating System (TiVo OS) – an unbiased smart TV operating system that aggregates content across SVOD, AVOD and FAST channels, utilizing personalized content discovery and voice navigation.[25]
Monetization – Advertising revenue generated from in Guide ad units and ad-supported content viewed through a variety of Xperi platforms, such as the Classic Guides, TiVo OS, TiVo+, and PCD.
Metadata – Extensive database providing comprehensive, complimentary data about music and video content, including The Movie Database (TMDB) through Rovi.[26][27][28]

type	Public
traded as	nyse: XPER
foundation	1990
former names	Tessera Holding Corporation (1990–2017) Xperi Holding Corporation (2017–2022)
location city	San Jose, California
location country	U.S.
area served	Worldwide
key people	Dave Habiger (chairman) Jon Kirchner (CEO)
industry	Technology, Pay television, Consumer electronics
brands	DTS TiVo IMAX Enhanced HD Radio
revenue	US$521 million (2023)
operating income	US$−749 million (2022)
net income	US$−757 million (2022)
assets	US$737 million (2022)
equity	US$463 million (2022)
num employees	c. 2,100 (2022)
website	xperi.com
footnotes	‡R1R‡

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Pay TV

Consumer Electronics

Connected Car

Media Platform

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