UNISOC
UNISOC (Chinese: 紫光展锐; pinyin: Zǐguāng zhǎn ruì), formerly Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Chinese: 展讯通信有限公司; pinyin: Zhǎnxùn Tōngxìn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai which produces chipsets for mobile phones. UNISOC develops its business in two major fields - consumer electronics and industrial electronics, including smartphones, feature phones, smart audio systems, smart wear and other application fields; Industrial electronics cover the fields such as LAN IoT, WAN IoT and smart display.
Native name | 紫光展锐 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Predecessor | Spreadtrum/RDA |
| Founded | April 2001 |
| Headquarters | Shanghai, China |
Number of employees | 5000+ |
| Website | www |
As of 2021, it is the fourth largest mobile processor manufacturer in the world, after Mediatek, Qualcomm and Apple, with 9% of global market share.
UNISOC is a leading platform chip design company. It is one of the few companies in the world that has fully mastered 2G/3G/4G/5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TV FM, satellite communications and other related technologies. In the 5G field, UNISOC is one of the three 5G chip companies in the global open market.
UNISOC has extensive expertise in large-scale chip integration and complete peripheral chip integration. UNISOC product portfolio includes mobile communication central processing units, baseband chips, AI chipsets, radio frequency front-end chips, radio frequency chips and other communication, computing and control chips, etc. UNISOC field test covers 133 countries, and has passed shipment certification of 260+ operators worldwide. UNISOC has more than 500 customers including HONOR, realme, vivo, Samsung, moto, Hisense, ZTE, JD, UnionPay, and GREE.
UNISOC has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award five times, including one special prize and two first prizes, submitted application for nearly 10,000 patents and possesses core patents such as 3G/4G/5G, multi-card multi-standby, and multi-mode.
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 the company. In addition to Wise Road, the company’s shareholders include the Big Fund, a Chinese government-backed investment fund for chips, which has a 13% stake in the company.