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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 15, 2004

Registration No. 333-            



SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM S-8


REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under The Securities Act of 1933

PIXELWORKS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

Oregon
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
  91-1761992
(IRS Employer Identification Number)

8100 SW Nyberg Road
Tualatin, Oregon 97062
(503) 454-1750
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

Pixelworks, Inc., 1997 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the Plan)

Allen H. Alley
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pixelworks, Inc.
8100 SW Nyberg Road
Tualatin, Oregon 97062
(503) 454-1750
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With copies to:
Alice Cuprill-Comas, Esq.
Ater Wynne LLP
222 S.W. Columbia, Suite 1800
Portland, Oregon 97201
(503) 226-1191

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of Securities to Be Registered
  Amount to Be
Registered

  Proposed Maximum
Offering Price Per
Share (1)

  Proposed Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price (1)

  Amount of
Registration Fee

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share   1,500,000 shares   $ 11.76   $ 17,640,000   $ 2,076.23

(1)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. Pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based on the average of the high and low sales prices of the Registrant's Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market System on December 8, 2004.





EXPLANATORY NOTE

        This Registration Statement is being filed pursuant to Instruction E of Form S-8, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register an additional 1,500,000 shares of Pixelworks, Inc. common stock issuable pursuant to its 1997 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended. This Registration Statement includes a facing page, this page, the signature page, an Exhibit Index, an Exhibit 5.1 Legal Opinion, and a consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Pursuant to Instruction E, the content of Pixelworks Registration Statement on Form S-8, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission May 30, 2002 (No. 333-89394), including the exhibits thereto, are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. All previously registered shares may be issued pursuant to Pixelworks' 1997 Stock Incentive Plan.

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SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto authorized, in the City of Tualatin, State of Oregon, on December 14, 2004.

    PIXELWORKS, INC.    

 

 

By

/s/  
ALLEN H. ALLEY      
Allen H. Alley

 

 
      President and Chief Executive Officer


POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Allen H. Alley and Jeffrey B. Bouchard, and each of them singly, as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement filed herewith and any or all amendments to said registration statement (including post-effective amendments), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        Witness our hands on the date set forth below.

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of December 14, 2004.

     
/s/  ALLEN H. ALLEY      
Allen H. Alley
  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

/s/  
JEFFREY B. BOUCHARD      
Jeffrey B. Bouchard

 

Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

/s/  
OLIVER D. CURME      
Oliver D. Curme

 

Director

/s/  
FRANK GILL      
Frank Gill

 

Director

/s/  
C. SCOTT GIBSON      
C. Scott Gibson

 

Director

/s/  
STEVEN J. SHARP      
Steven J. Sharp

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number

  Exhibit
5.1   Opinion of Ater Wynne LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered

23.1

 

Consent of Ater Wynne LLP (included in legal opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)

23.2

 

Consent of KPMG LLP

24.1

 

Powers of Attorney (included in signature page of the Registration Statement)

99.1

 

Pixelworks, Inc. 1997 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Reg. No. 333-89394) filed with the SEC on May 30, 2002).

99.2

 

Pixelworks, Inc. 1997 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended

 

 

 



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EXPLANATORY NOTE
SIGNATURES
POWER OF ATTORNEY
INDEX TO EXHIBITS