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Hangzhou Silan Electronics was established in September 1997 and evolved into Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics. The company began with chip design but chose to add its own manufacturing capacity, creating an integrated-device-manufacturer model unusual among many Chinese fabless start-ups.
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San’an Optoelectronics grew in China around compound-semiconductor epitaxy and chip manufacturing, particularly materials used for LEDs. The company developed production capability in gallium nitride and related compounds rather than focusing on conventional silicon logic processors.
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Novatek Microelectronics was established in Taiwan in 1997 as a spin-off from United Microelectronics Corporation’s commercial and consumer IC activities. The company developed fabless display and multimedia chips rather than owning semiconductor fabrication plants.
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Alchip Technologies was founded in 2003 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, beginning with 23 employees. The company built a business around application-specific integrated circuit and system-on-chip design services for customers that wanted custom silicon without constructing a large internal chip-design organisation.
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Powerchip’s corporate lineage began in Taiwan in 1994, when Powerchip Semiconductor entered DRAM manufacturing during a period of rapid memory-industry growth. The company later endured severe memory downturns that forced restructuring and a broader foundry strategy.
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Kenichiro Sato founded the company that became ROHM in Kyoto in 1958, initially producing resistors for radios and other electronics. The original corporate name, R.ohm, reflected the resistor’s unit of electrical resistance before the business moved into semiconductors.
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Realtek Semiconductor was incorporated in Taiwan on 21 October 1987. The fabless company focused on integrated circuits for communications and computer peripherals, developing products that could bring common functions onto cost-efficient chips.
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GlobalWafers was formally incorporated in October 2011 when Sino-American Silicon Products carved out its semiconductor wafer business into a separate company in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The business already had wafer expertise and international assets inherited from its parent, allowing the new company to begin with a broader manufacturing base than a conventional start-up.
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Dr Wayne Dai founded VeriSilicon in August 2001 in Shanghai after earlier building electronic-design-automation businesses in the United States. VeriSilicon was created around a fabless service model: help customers design complex system-on-chip products and license reusable semiconductor intellectual property without owning leading-edge fabrication plants.
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China Resources Microelectronics brings together semiconductor businesses with roots in Wuxi and other Chinese electronics operations that were consolidated under the China Resources group. The company developed as an integrated device manufacturer, combining chip design, wafer fabrication, packaging and testing rather than relying on a purely fabless model.
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