Chips are one of the industries that China needs to break through the most. Domestic chips started very late, and the development level of Chinese chips is still far behind that of foreign countries. The core technology is controlled by others and relies on foreign chip imports. However, under the background of rapid industry growth, China’s chip industry has developed rapidly, and domestic chip companies are also gradually improving their technical level and product quality. This post introduces the top 10 chip brand companies in China.
1.Hisilicon海思
Service areas: Hisilicon products cover multiple fields such as smart vision, smart IoT, smart media, smart travel, display interaction, mobile terminals, data centers and optical transceivers.
Hisilicon has 12 offices and R&D centers in China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Europe and other places, and its products and services are spread across more than 100 countries and regions around the world.
2.Mediatek联发科
Mediatek’s technology is people-oriented and is used to enhance and enrich people’s lives. Mediatek believes that technology should not be expensive, but it should be great and benefit everyone. Mediatek is committed to creating a more inclusive world where everyone has the same opportunity to enjoy the convenience of life brought by smart devices and connectivity. Therefore, Mediatek works with brands that are widely loved by consumers to provide partners and their customers with affordable, versatile and high-quality technology. Through Mediatek’s technology, billions of people around the world have more opportunities to explore their true potential and create unlimited possibilities.
3.UNISOC紫光展锐
UNISOC has large-scale chip integration and chip set capabilities. Its products include mobile communication central processors, baseband chips, AI chips, RF front-end chips, RF chips and other types of communication, computing and control chips. Field tests cover 133 countries around the world. It has passed the shipment certification of 260+ operators around the world and has more than 500 customers including Honor, realme, vivo, Samsung, Motorola, Hisense, ZTE, JD.com, UnionPay, and Gree.
UNISOC has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award five times and the China Patent Gold Award for two consecutive years. It has applied for nearly 10,000 patents and has core patents such as 3G/4G/5G, multi-card multi-standby, and multi-mode.
4.OMNIVISION上海韦尔半导体股份有限公司
OMNIVISION-Shanghai Will Semiconductor Co., Ltd. is a Chinese semiconductor design company ranked among the top in the world. The group is headquartered in Shanghai, with R&D centers and business networks all over the world, and annual shipments exceed 12.3 billion. OMNIVISION is committed to providing sensor solutions, analog solutions and display solutions to help customers solve technical challenges in the fields of mobile phones, security, automotive electronics, wearable devices, IoT, communications, computers, consumer electronics, industry, and medical care, and meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence and green energy.
“Empowering technology, sensing infinity.” OMNIVISION will fully improve its global strategic layout, relying on continuous technological innovation, highly coordinated supply chain and customer base, and diverse and outstanding talents, complementing each other’s strengths, sharing resources, and synergizing to achieve scale effects, adhering to technological innovation, improving customer satisfaction and stickiness, providing customers with better products and services, and using this to create greater value for global consumers together with customers.
Since 1995, OMNIVISION has developed high-quality intellectual property (IP) in the fields of image sensors, signal processing, optics and projection technology, leading the advancement of digital photography in multiple markets, including mobile phones, notepads/laptops, personal computers, automobiles, security monitoring, medical, AR, VR, drones and industrial applications. OMNIVISION continues to develop and expand its patent portfolio, adding new technologies to its core image sensor business to maintain its industry leadership, and the number of patents owned by OMNIVISION is a testament to its commitment to innovation.
5.HDSC华大半导体
HDSC is a professional integrated circuit development platform company under China Electronics Information Industry Group Co., Ltd. (CEC). Focusing on the three major application areas of automotive electronics, industrial control, and the Internet of Things, it focuses on the layout of control chips, power semiconductors, high-end analog chips, and security chips, forming an overall chip solution, forming a competitive product matrix and comprehensive solutions.
The company is committed to providing customers with high-quality, high-security, and high-reliability products and services; committed to creating value for customers and becoming a trusted partner of customers; continuing to innovate and pursue excellence, becoming a respected leader in IC design.
6.LOONGSON龙芯中科
General-purpose processors are the basic components of the information industry and the core components of electronic equipment. General-purpose processors are one of the strategic industries related to the fate of the country. Their development is directly related to the country’s technological innovation capabilities, national security, and the core interests of the country.
LOONGSON is oriented to the needs of national informatization construction and the forefront of international information technology. It takes innovation and development as the theme, industrial development as the main line, and system construction as the goal. It insists on independent innovation, masters computer core technologies such as CPU instruction system, processor IP core, and operating system, and creates an independent and open software and hardware ecology and information industry system. Provide independent, safe and reliable processors for national strategic needs, and provide high-performance, low-cost processors and basic software and hardware solutions for the innovative development of the information industry.
LOONGSON’s main business is the research, sales and service of processors and supporting chips. Its main products and services include processors and supporting chip products and basic software and hardware solution business. At present, LOONGSON is carrying out industrial ecological construction based on the two main lines of information system and industrial control system, and maintains market cooperation with partners in the fields of network security, office and business informatization, industrial control and Internet of Things. The series of products have been widely used in e-government, energy, transportation, finance, telecommunications, education and other industries.
In 2001, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences began to develop the Loongson processor, which was strongly supported by the CAS Knowledge Innovation Project, 863, 973, and the National Key Basic Research Program, completing a decade of technology accumulation. In 2010, with the joint funding support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Municipal Government, Loongson began to operate in a market-oriented manner and industrialize the research and development results of the Loongson processor. LOONGSON is headquartered in Beijing and has branches in Nanjing, Hefei, Jinhua, Shanxi, Guangzhou, Xi’an, Wuhan, Chengdu, Liaoning, Hebi and other places, with service outlets throughout the country.
7.GigaDevice兆易创新
GigaDevice Technology Group Co., Ltd. is the world’s leading Fabless chip supplier. The company was established in April 2005 and is headquartered in Beijing, China. It has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hefei, Xi’an, Chengdu, Suzhou and Hong Kong in China, the United States, South Korea, and Japan. We have branches and offices in many countries and regions such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore, and our marketing network spans the world, providing customers with high-quality and convenient localized support services.
The company’s core product lines are memory (Flash, niche DRAM), 32-bit general-purpose MCU, intelligent human-computer interaction sensors, analog products and overall solutions. The company’s products are famous for their “high performance and low power consumption”, and their technical strength is highly recognized by the industry.
The company has strict standards and requirements in quality management, and has obtained ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and other international quality system certifications and D&B certifications. At the same time, it actively promotes industrial integration and has reached strategic agreements with many leading wafer fabs and packaging and testing plants around the world. Partnership. In the future, the company will further actively deploy around “sensing-storage-computing-control-connection”, commit to promoting edge intelligence, and jointly promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading in the semiconductor field by strengthening cooperation between upstream and downstream industries and optimizing supply chain management. .
8.SANECHIPS中兴微电子
Shenzhen SANECHIPS Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “SANECHIPS”) was registered and established in 2003. As a leading communication IC design company in China, SANECHIPS focuses on the development of communication chips for communication networks, smart homes and industry applications. It has independently developed and successfully commercialized more than 100 chips, covering the fields of “bearing, access, and terminals” of communication networks, serving more than 160 countries and regions around the world.
SANECHIPS has multiple R&D institutions around the world with more than 2,000 R&D personnel. After more than ten years of development, SANECHIPS has mastered world-class IC design and verification technology, and has advanced EDA design platforms, COT design services, development processes and specifications, and can provide customers with one-stop design services. Adhering to continuous independent innovation, SANECHIPS has applied for more than 4,000 chip patents, including more than 1,800 PCT international patents and more than 200 5G chip patents.
In the future, SANECHIPS will focus on communication technology, build leading communication IC solutions, open cooperation with ecological partners, and continue to create value for customers.
9.GOODIX汇顶科技
GOODIX is a total application solution provider based on chip design and software development, mainly providing diversified and comprehensive semiconductor software and hardware solutions for smart terminals, the Internet of Things and automotive electronics. With a global vision and layout, GOODIX will gather global scientific and technological talents, firmly invest in high research and development, continue to lead technological innovation in the fields of sensing, computing, connection and security, drive innovative applications of the Internet of Everything, and strive to grow into a pioneer of global comprehensive IC design companies, create greater unique value for more customers and partners around the world, and enrich the smart life of hundreds of millions of consumers around the world.
10.Horizon地平线
Horizon’s mission is to “empower machines to make human life safer and better”. Horizon is an industry-leading high-performance intelligent driving computing solution provider. As a pioneer in promoting the commercial application of intelligent driving in China’s passenger car field, Horizon is committed to developing an extremely efficient hardware computing platform and open and easy-to-use software development tools through forward-looking technical concepts that combine software and hardware, providing core technical infrastructure and an open and prosperous software development ecosystem for the transformation of the smart car industry, and bringing users an unparalleled intelligent driving experience.
In 2020, Horizon officially opened the first year of pre-installed mass production of China’s automotive smart chips, achieving a breakthrough from 0 to 1. To date, the cumulative shipments of Horizon’s Journey chips have exceeded 2 million pieces, and it has signed pre-installed mass production projects for more than 70 models with more than 20 car companies, working with partners to achieve value exploration from 1 to N.