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34-405: From 2021, it has been the fourth largest mobile processor manufacturer in the world, after MediaTek , Qualcomm and Apple , with 9% of global market share. In 2021, Tsinghua Unigroup , UNISOC's former parent company, was on the verge of bankruptcy. After a year-long restructuring, a private equity consortium headed by Chinese government-backed Wise Road Capital took over in 2022 and now controls

68-486: A division to design products for mobile devices in 2004. Seven years later, it took orders for more than 500 million mobile system-on-chip units per annum, including products for feature phones and smart devices. By providing extensive system engineering assistance, the company allowed many smaller companies and new entrants to enter a mobile phone market that had previously been dominated by large, often vertically integrated corporations that had long been broadly entrenched in

102-538: A global producer of digital signal processing products based in Linköping, Sweden. Coresonic became a wholly owned subsidiary of MediaTek in Europe. On June 22, 2012, MediaTek announced it would acquire a rival Taiwanese chipset designer MStar Semiconductor Inc. , which held a strong market share position in digital television chips. The initial phase of the deal saw MediaTek taking a 48 percent stake, with an option to purchase

136-534: A partnership to bring 5G to PCs in 2021. MediaTek overtook Qualcomm as the largest vendor of smartphone chipsets in the world in the third quarter of 2020, mainly due to significant growth in the Indian and Latin American markets. In May 2023, the company announced a new collaboration with Nvidia , using Dimensity to power advanced vehicle infotainment systems for automakers. In 2005, MediaTek acquired Inprocomm ,

170-675: A record of 37% in chip shipments. The MT8135 system-on-chip (SoC) for tablets announced in July 2013 was the industry's first chip to implement the new ARM big.LITTLE technology for heterogeneous multi-processing . A variant of the MT8135 was used by Amazon in its Kindle Fire HD tablet models. Also on November 20, 2013, MediaTek launched the MT6592 SoC, the first system-on-chip (SoC) with eight CPU cores which could be used simultaneously, in contrast to competing SoCs with eight physical cores of which only

204-427: A subset could be active at any given time. The "True Octa-Core" trademark was registered to emphasize the difference in marketing materials. On January 7, 2014, MediaTek announced the development of the world's first "multimode receiver" for wireless charging. In contrast to existing implementations it is compatible with both inductive and resonant charging. The resulting MT3188 wireless charging chip, certified by both

238-543: A wireless semiconductor design company producing 802.11a, b and a/g chips. On September 10, 2007, MediaTek announced its intention to buy Analog Devices cellular radio and baseband chipset divisions for US$ 350 million. The acquisition was finalised by January 11, 2008. On May 5, 2011, MediaTek acquired Ralink Technology Corporation , gaining products and expertise for Wi-Fi technology for mobile and non-mobile applications, as well as for wired DSL and Ethernet connectivity. On April 11, 2012, MediaTek acquired Coresonic,

272-570: A years-long legal dispute over intellectual property rights (IP). UMC will make an undisclosed one-time payment to Micron Technology. Both parties also announced their intention to seek mutual business cooperation opportunities in the future. In February 2024, US District Judge Maxine M. Chesney in San Francisco ruled that the US prosecutors failed to prove that Chinese firm, Fujian Jinhua had misappropriated trade secrets from Micron Technology Inc. Therefore,

306-479: Is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that designs and manufactures a range of semiconductor products, providing chips for wireless communications , high-definition television , handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers , navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Hsinchu ,

340-708: Is a Taiwanese company based in Hsinchu , Taiwan . It was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). UMC is best known for its semiconductor foundry business, manufacturing integrated circuits wafers for fabless semiconductor companies. In this role, UMC is ranked behind competitor TSMC . It has four 300 mm fabs, one in Taiwan, one in Singapore, one in China, and one in Japan. UMC

374-412: Is designed to show full capabilities during benchmarks , that it is standard practice in the industry, and their device makers can choose to enable it or not. AnandTech pointed out Sports Mode was also being applied to benchmarks intended on measuring user experience benchmarks, providing otherwise untenable results, and that similar high performance modes from other device makers only turn on if chosen by

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408-476: Is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange as 2303 . UMC has 12 manufacturing facilities worldwide, employing approximately 19,500 people. UMC is a significant supplier to the automotive industry. The United States Department of Justice indicted UMC and Chinese firm Fujian Jinhua in 2018, alleging that they conspired to steal intellectual property from U.S. company Micron . In October 2020, UMC and

442-870: The Power Matters Alliance and the Wireless Power Consortium was announced on February 24, 2014. On February 25, 2014, MediaTek announced the MT6732, and the MT6630. The SoC MT6630 supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi, Bluetooth, ANT+, GPS and FM radio. On May 12, 2015, MediaTek announced their Helio X20, which features the industry's first tri-cluster CPU and the first CPU with a 10-core configuration. It also integrates MediaTek's first modem compatible with CDMA2000 . Tri-cluster CPUs were later adopted by HiSilicon ( Huawei ) in 2018, Qualcomm and Samsung Exynos SoCs in 2019. MediaTek collaborated with Google on

476-446: The Taiwan Stock Exchange under the symbol TWSE : 2454 . A March 2021 report revealed that MediaTek had overtaken Qualcomm for the first time as the world's biggest smartphone chipset vendor in 2020, with 351.8 million chipsets shipped that year. The report attributed MediaTek's performance to its focus on less expensive smartphones. Market analyst firm Counterpoint predicted that MediaTek would maintain this lead in 2021, projecting

510-473: The "Girls! TECH Action" project and invited Taiwanese students to the company's headquarters to promote interest in the industry and increase the number of female employees in the company. In July 2024, the company's ESG risk rating was low at just 14.7%. On April 8, 2020, AnandTech published an article on MediaTek's Sports Mode; that same day, MediaTek published a post titled "Why MediaTek Stands Behind Our Benchmarking Practices". MediaTek said Sports Mode

544-740: The U.S. Department of Justice reached a plea agreement, with UMC pleading guilty to one count of receiving and possessing a stolen trade secret and agreeing to pay a fine of $ 60 million. UMC's plea and Plea Agreement resolved the 2018 trade secrets case brought against UMC by the U.S. Department of Justice. As part of the Plea Agreement, DOJ agreed to dismiss the original indictment against UMC, including allegations of conspiracy to commit economic espionage and conspiracy to steal multiple trade secrets from Micron Technology, Inc. (“Micron”), patent-related allegations, and alleged damages and penalties of US$ 400 million to $ 8.75 billion. The one trade secret at issue in

578-882: The V510 5G baseband chip in February 2019. A year later, they launched the UNISOC T7520, a 5G SoC that uses of 6nm EUV advanced process technology. In 2021, it beat HiSilicon and ranked third in the Chinese smartphone AP market share. Currently, UNISOC’s main products include mobile system-on-chips, baseband chips, AI chips, radio frequency chips, and other communication, computing, and control chips, which are widely used in consumer electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smart wearables. MediaTek MediaTek Inc. ( Chinese : 聯發科技股份有限公司 ; pinyin : Liánfā Kējì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī ), sometimes informally abbreviated as MTK ,

612-414: The acquisition in the second quarter of 2016. MediaTek's financial results have been subject to variation as the financial success of different product lines fluctuated. MediaTek's relatively strong sales in 2009/2010 were based on its strong market position for feature phone chipsets. Smartphone and tablet products contributed to MediaTek's sales and income increase in 2013, while revenue recognition from

646-524: The acquisition of MStar Semiconductor, which became effective in February 2014, as well as a continuing strong position for smartphone and tablet solutions, were the main reasons for the sales growth seen in 2014. In 2014 smartphone chips accounted for approximately 50–55% of revenue, followed by digital home products (25–30%, includes digital television chips), tablet chips (5–10%), feature phone chips (5–10%) and Wi-Fi products (5–10%). MediaTek started shipping chips with integrated 4G LTE baseband in volume in

680-414: The company Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics was merged and rebranded to UNISOC, in which Intel agreed to invest $ 1.5 billion for a 20 percent stake. The company also began working on a 5G smartphone platform with an Intel 5G modem. In February 2018, UNISOC introduced high-end smartphone SOCs with augmented reality capabilities. UNISOC released the 5G technology platform Makalu 1.0 and

714-624: The company has 41 offices worldwide and was the third largest fabless chip designer worldwide in 2016. The company also provides its customers with reference designs . MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in Q3 2020. This was assisted by its strong performance in regions such as China and India. MediaTek was originally a unit of the Taiwanese firm, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), tasked with designing chipsets for home entertainment products. On May 28, 1997,

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748-426: The company posted revenues of US$ 5.3 billion in the first half of 2014, nearly as much as the whole of 2013. The revenue growth was however partly due to revenue recognition from the acquisition of MStar which became effective at the beginning of 2014. In September 2019, MediaTek collaborated with VVDN Technologies to design, manufacture new-age AIoT solutions. On November 25, 2019, MediaTek and Intel announced

782-659: The company. In addition to Wise Road, the company’s shareholders include the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund , a Chinese government-backed investment fund for chips, which has a 13% stake in the company. UNISOC products support a broad range of wireless communications standards, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA, HSPA+ and TD-LTE. UNISOC has a global R & D layout, with more than 5,000 employees worldwide, 90% of whom are R&D personnel. The company originally produced chips for GSM handsets, but most of its resources in

816-590: The first Ultra HD TV platform for Android TV , resulting in the development of the MT5595 digital television SoC. The product first shipped in LCD TV models made by Sony . On November 26, 2019, MediaTek announced their 5G SoC Dimensity 1000, the world's first mobile SoC supporting AV1 . On November 6, 2023, MediaTek announced their newest flagship chip, the Dimensity 9300. Besides an increase in performance and battery life,

850-494: The guilty plea and Plea Agreement related to older technology that had been in mass production worldwide for several years. DOJ also dismissed a related civil case against UMC. Aside from the fine amount, UMC has no further financial obligations to DOJ. The Plea Agreement also provides that UMC will cooperate with DOJ and will be subject to a three-year term of non-supervised probation. In November 2021, UMC and Micron agreed to withdraw complaints against each other globally following

884-518: The late 2000s were then focused on the Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G standard. In addition to GSM and combined GSM/TD-SCDMA baseband chipsets, they also supplied chips for two Chinese mobile TV standards: TD-MBMS and CMMB . UNISOC (then known as Spreadtrum)'s customers accounted for 50% of TD-SCDMA handset sales in China Mobile 's round of TD-SCDMA trials in 2008. UNISOC, then still known as Spreadtrum,

918-566: The newest chipset boasts to be AI-generative ready as well. MediaTek is developing an Arm-based PC chip for Microsoft's Windows, set to launch after Qualcomm's exclusivity ends in 2024. This move aims to challenge Apple's Arm-based Macs and Intel's dominance in the PC market. Nvidia and AMD are also working on similar Arm-based designs for Windows. MediaTek aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and reduce overall carbon emissions as part of its commitment to sustainability. In 2023, MediaTek launched

952-449: The remaining stake later. The following merger between MediaTek and MStar was delayed by antitrust concerns in China and South Korea and finalized on February 1, 2014. On September 7, 2015, MediaTek announced to buy Richtek Technology Corp., a fabless vendor of analog ICs and power management ICs based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Richtek became a wholly subsidiary of MediaTek after the completion of

986-495: The second half of 2014, later than its largest competitor Qualcomm. The additional cost of the separate baseband chip required in every 4G handset made MediaTek's offerings more expensive and prompted some of its larger customers, like Alcatel One Touch and ZTE , to choose competing SoCs like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 and 410 platforms, negatively affecting MediaTek's revenue stream. MediaTek's stock has been trading on

1020-468: The telecommunications industry. The mobile chip market quickly became the main growth driver for the company. At Mobile World Congress 2014, MediaTek unveiled its new brand "Everyday Genius", dubbing the term "Super-mid market", with the vision and aiming to make smartphones more accessible affordable to the wider market. As of November 2014, over 1500 mobile models accounting for 700 million units were shipped globally in 2014, using MediaTek chips, and

1054-466: The unit was spun off and incorporated. MediaTek Inc. was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) under the "2454" code on July 23, 2001. The company started out designing chipsets for optical drives and subsequently expanded into chips for DVD players, digital TVs, mobile phones, smartphones and tablets. In general MediaTek has had a strong record of gaining market share and displacing competitors after entering new markets. The company launched

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1088-417: The user, not from automatic app detection from a whitelist. The AnandTech article also noted that they had criticized other vendors such as Samsung Exynos and HiSilicon ( Huawei ) for past cheating practices. On April 14, 2020, Qualcomm responded, saying they do not use whitelisting as they consider it cheating. On April 16, 2020, Oppo claimed that they tried to remove Sports Mode, but did not know it

1122-515: Was formerly a public company listed on NASDAQ , but agreed to an acquisition by Tsinghua Holdings subsidiary Tsinghua Unigroup , in July 2013, for about US$ 1.78 billion; the deal completed on 23 December 2013. In 2014, Tsinghua Unigroup acquired RDA Microelectronics for US$ 907 Million. RDA Microelectronics was a fabless semiconductor company that designed, developed and marketed wireless system-on-chip and radio-frequency semiconductors for cellular, connectivity and broadcast applications. In 2018,

1156-552: Was still cached, hence it was removed in a firmware update. UL delisted several MediaTek Helio SoCs from their 3DMark and PCMark rankings. MT6297 Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) modules. As a result of the merger with Ralink , MediaTek has added wireless network interface controllers for IEEE 802.11 -standards, and SoCs with MIPS CPUs to its product portfolio. United Microelectronics Corporation United Microelectronics Corporation ( UMC ; Chinese : 聯華電子 ; pinyin : Liánhuá Diànzǐ )

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