Technicolor Logo — Technicolor (formerly Thomson ) is a publicly traded electronics company based in Issy-les-Moulineaux in Paris . Technicolor is the brands Thomson, RCA, Grass Valley and SpeedTouch on the market. Thomson was in 1879 by Elihu Thomson founded. Thomson was up in the 1980s, a major semiconductor manufacturer . The semiconductor division Semiconducteurs Thomson (France) merged with SGS Microelettronica (Italy) to SGS-Thomson, now known as STMicroelectronics . In addition, Thomson-CSF group was part of a company (and so on radar, missiles) with products from the defense sector. CSF now trades under the name of Thales Group .
The company is constantly enlarged in the 1980s and 1990s with scores of new acquisitions of other companies. Well known companies such as Telefunken , Nordmende , SABA , and RCA was acquired by Thomson, under this name but only a few or no products sold. In 2001, the U.S. company was acquired Technicolor, which is the Technicolor color film process was developed. On 21 August 2003, the Thomson Technicolor cinema provider in full. More