Strong! Two Chinese IC design companies enter the world's top 10

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Qualcomm is an American radio communication technology research and development company founded in July 1985. It plays an important role in promoting the development of wireless communications through technological innovation. It is well-known for its leading position in CDMA technology, and LTE technology has become the fastest growing wireless technology in the world. Qualcomm attaches great importance to research and development, and has provided technology licenses to more than 100 manufacturers, involving all brands of telecommunications equipment and consumer electronic devices in the world.

CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) was founded in Cambridge, UK in 1998. Its early technologies were mainly in the audio field. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2004. In January 2007, it acquired Nordnav Technologies and Cambridge Positioning Systems, and has been committed to software GPS systems.

On October 15, 2014, Qualcomm spent $2.5 billion to acquire British chip manufacturer CSR.

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Avago Technologies is a supplier that designs, develops and provides a wide range of analog semiconductor devices to customers around the world, mainly providing compound III-V semiconductor products. We have outstanding strength in high-performance design and integration. Our product portfolio is extensive and diverse, with approximately 6,500 products in the following four major target markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive electronics, and consumer and computer peripherals. Our products can be used in mobile phones, home appliances, data networking and telecommunications equipment, enterprise storage and servers, power generation and renewable energy systems, factory automation, displays, optical mice and printers in these target markets.

Broadcom Corporation is a leading global semiconductor company for wired and wireless communications. Its products enable the delivery of voice, data and multimedia to and in homes, offices and mobile environments. Broadcom provides the industry's broadest range of first-class system-on-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices.

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MediaTek Inc. (MediaTek.Inc) is a world-renowned IC design company, focusing on wireless communications and digital multimedia technology. The chip integration system solutions it provides include wireless communications, high-definition digital TV, optical storage, DVD and Blu-ray and other related products. MediaTek was founded in 1997 and has been publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Taiwan, China, it has sales or R&D teams in mainland China, India, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.

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NVIDIA (official Chinese name Yingweida), founded in January 1993, is a fabless IC semiconductor company that designs intelligent core chipsets. Nvidia is a global leader in graphics technology and digital media processors. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with approximately 5,700 employees in more than 20 countries and regions. The company has advanced expertise in programmable graphics processors and has achieved many breakthroughs in parallel processing.

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AMD specializes in designing and manufacturing a variety of innovative microprocessors (CPU, GPU, APU, motherboard chipsets, TV card chips, etc.), flash memory and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries. AMD is committed to providing standards-based, customer-centric solutions to technology users - from enterprises, government agencies to individual consumers.

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HiSilicon Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Founded in October 2004, HiSilicon is a fast-growing chip and device company. HiSilicon is headquartered in Shenzhen and has design divisions in Beijing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Sweden. By the end of 2015, HiSilicon had more than 5,000 employees, of which more than 67% had doctoral and master's degrees. HiSilicon's business includes chip and module solutions in the fields of consumer electronics and communications, which have been successfully applied in more than 100 countries and regions around the world; in the field of consumer electronics, it has launched network monitoring chips and solutions, videophone chips and solutions, DVB chips and solutions, and IPTV chips and solutions. Years of technical accumulation have enabled HiSilicon to master world-class IC design and verification technology, and has advanced EDA design platforms, development processes and specifications. It has successfully developed more than 100 chips with independent intellectual property rights and applied for more than 500 patents. HiSilicon has established a good strategic partnership with industry peers in the United States, Japan, Europe and China, and has mature and stable cooperation channels for wafer processing, packaging and testing.

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Apple Inc. is an American high-tech company. It was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne and named Apple Computer Inc. It was renamed Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Marvell (Maverick Technology Group Co., Ltd., now renamed Marvell), founded in 1995 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, has a R&D center in Shanghai, China. It is a manufacturer engaged in the design, development and supply of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits for the high-speed, high-density, digital data storage and broadband digital data network markets.

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Xilinx is a global leader in AllProgramambleFPGA, SoC, MPSoC and 3DIC, committed to realizing a new generation of smarter, connected and differentiated systems and networks. Driven by the industry's transition to cloud computing, SDN/NFV, video everywhere, embedded vision, industrial Internet of Things and 5G wireless, Xilinx's innovation makes these applications both software-defined and hardware-optimized.

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Spreadtrum Communications, Inc.

Spreadtrum was founded in April 2001. The company is headquartered in Shanghai, with R&D centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Xiamen, San Diego and San Jose in the United States, and Finland, a technical support center in Shenzhen, and international support offices in South Korea, Taiwan, India and Mexico. Spreadtrum's products support multi-standard broadband wireless communications, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA, HSPA+ and TD-LTE.

Spreadtrum was acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup on December 23, 2013.

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