Partners

GigaDevice Semiconductor, founded in Silicon Valley in 2005, is a leading fabless semiconductor company engaged in advanced memory integrated technology and IC solutions. GigaDevice successfully completed its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2016. It offers a wide range of high performance Flash Memory and 32-bit general purpose MCU products. It is among the leading companies in SPI NOR Flash Memory and currently ranks third in the world in this market segment with shipments of more than 1 billion units each year.

GigaDevice has filed more than 600 patent applications and received more than 200 patents since 2007. More than 55% of its employees are engaged in research and development activities aimed at differentiating its products from competitors in the market. The GigaDevice management team brings leading semiconductor industry experience from well-known Memory Integrator manufacturing companies in Silicon Valley, California, Korea and Taiwan. GigaDevice is ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified by DQS.

GigaDevice currently manufactures SPI NOR Flash, SPI NAND Flash and MCUs for use in embedded, end consumer and mobile communications applications. It operates a manufacturing model based on strong relationships with foundry, assembly and test subcontractor partners. GigaDevice believes that this well-defined fabless manufacturing model gives them a competitive advantage over traditional fabrication-based integrated device manufacturers. This is because capital equipment expenditures to maintain advanced memory process technologies are beyond the market return of many IC memory market segments. GigaDevice's foundry partners' consistent investment in advanced equipment and rapid growth in 12-inch wafer capacity are key factors in its success relative to its competitors.