The story
Silicon Studio was established in 2000. It was founded by Teruyasu Sekimoto, who was formerly the senior vice president of Silicon Graphics (SGI). Specializing from the start in rendering technology, research and development methods, post-processing visual effects, game content development, and online game solutions, Silicon Studio created four main studios to achieve the highest productivity in these areas. The research team at Silicon Studio developed several techniques related to fields in visual effects shown at the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference, such as post effect processing and global illumination. While traditionally a provider of middleware solutions for Japanese game developers, Silicon Studio has grown as an international company with a greater focus on the visibility of their products abroad.
Silicon Studio has partnerships with a number of companies, including Allegorithmic from France, Audiokinetic from Canada, Stainless Games from the UK, Kunos Simulazioni and Milestone from Italy, Microsoft and Pixar from the USA, Papergames from China, and a number of Japanese companies including Nintendo, Bandai Namco, DeNA, Dimps, FromSoftware, Idea Factory, Koei Tecmo, Marvelous, Sega, and Sony Computer Entertainment. Silicon Studio has also partnered with the following companies: Vivante, OTOY, Square Enix, and Matchlock.
In February 2015, Silicon Studio was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market.
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