Pictos
Pictos is our name for the merger between the digital imaging semiconductor business of Conexant Systems and the imaging software company Zing Network. Our name, from the Latin pictor (painter), conveys the concept of images and imaging. Pictos sounds pragmatic, significant, and global -- all excellent connotations for an international digital imaging company.
Pictos is our third naming project for Conexant Systems. We named Conexant when it was spun off from Rockwell in 1998, and we named Mindspeed when it was spun off from Conexant in 2001.