May 28, 1997, today. 25 years ago today, the world's largest CDROM chip supplier, founder of MediaTek Cai Mingjie created MediaTek .
MediaTek is a veteran mobile chip design manufacturer. In the early days, MediaTek actually made DVD chips. At its peak, 60% of DVDs used MediaTek chips.
In 1995, Tsai Mingjie led the integrated circuit design department of Taiwan's " United Microelectronics " to start an independent business and established the multimedia group, the predecessor of "MediaTek", with only more than 20 people at the beginning. Under his leadership, MediaTek achieved significant growth in the following years.
In the past, having a single product was the biggest problem faced by MediaTek. In order to get rid of its dependence on a single product, MediaTek set its sights on the fields of mobile phones and digital TVs. It was not until 2003 that MediaTek officially launched its efforts in the mobile chip market. At this time, MediaTek was in This field is not well-known, and the key to its success lies in "low cost".
Mobile phones at that time generally used Qualcomm , Texas Instruments chips, which were very costly. At the same time, mobile phone chip manufacturers only provided chips, and other aspects needed to be completed by the mobile phone manufacturers themselves, which led to high mobile phone manufacturing costs. , long cycle.
The emergence of MediaTek integrates as many functions as possible into its own chips to provide mobile phone manufacturers with a one-stop solution. It is not only low cost, but also shortens the mobile phone research and development cycle, and has conquered many mobile phone manufacturers for a while.
In the first half of 2009 alone, MediaTek sold 150 million mobile phone chips and made a lot of money. In 2010, MediaTek officially joined the " Open Mobile Alliance " of Google to create exclusive Android smartphone solutions and officially entered the smartphone market.
By 2013, MediaTek had almost taken over the entire mid- to low-end market. Today, MediaTek has developed into the top five fabless IC design companies and the top 10 semiconductor companies in the world. One of every three smartphones in the world uses MediaTek's chips.
Currently, there is a huge demand for Chinese-made mobile phones abroad. Due to the segmentation of the foreign mobile phone market, foreign consumers often have very demanding and strange functional requirements. For example, an order from a certain country is to customize a batch of mobile phones for the elderly. , compared with ordinary mobile phones, the display fonts are required to be larger, and they also need to have sound functions, as well as some other functions corresponding to their transportation and daily life, which are basically not used in China. Mobile phones based on MTK chip technology can do this as easily as a simple puzzle...
