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What: Shares of Trident Microsystems
So what: Rival home entertainment chip designer Zoran
Now what: Trident's management explained that "industry softness and share loss from supply constraints earlier in the year" will keep sales down in the coming quarter, which is almost exactly what Zoran said the day before. Unlike Zoran, which is thinking about a wholesale change of direction to overcome its troubles, Trident has a strong pipeline of new products coming up in 2011. Fellow Fool Rich Duprey thinks Trident is a good way to ride the coattails of Netflix
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