Top 10 semiconductor companies in Taiwan

Top 10 semiconductor companies in Taiwan

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TSMC

TSMC

Established time

1987-02-21

Headquarters

Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan

Total assets

US$134.29 billion (2021)

Company website

https://www.tsmc.com/english

Company profile:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world’s most valuable semiconductor company, the world’s largest dedicated independent (pure-play) semiconductor foundry, and one of Taiwan’s largest companies, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu. It is majority owned by foreign investors.

TSMC-made semiconductors serve a global customer base that is large and diverse and includes a wide range of applications. These products are used in a variety of end markets including mobile devices, high-performance computing, automotive electronics, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Main products:

  • Central processing units
  • Graphics processing unit
  • Chipsets
  • Microprocessors
  • Systems-on-chip (SoCs)
  • Motherboard chipsets
  • Network interface controllers
  • Digital signal processors
  • Digital light processors
  • Integrated circuits
  • Embedded processors
  • Drivers

WPG Holdings

WPG Holdings

Established time

2005-11-9

Headquarters

Taipei, Taiwan

Company website

https://www.wpgholdings.com/

Company profile:
WPG Holdings is the largest electronics distributor in Asia and the world, headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.  WPG is operating through four leading semiconductor components distributors (WPIg, SACg, AITg, and YOSUNg) and serves as a franchise partner of more than 250 worldwide suppliers.

With 5,000 staff in about 80 sales offices around the world, WPG achieved US$27. 81 billion in 2021 revenue.  WPG, the first holding company in the semiconductor components industry, has global operation, local flexibility, and long-term development in Asia-Pacific Market.

Industry :
Global Semiconductor Distributor

ASE Group

ASE Group

Established time

1984

Headquarters

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Industry

Semiconductor assembly, testing & packaging

Company website

https://www.aseglobal.com/

Company profile:
ASE Technology Holding is the leading provider of semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and testing.

ASEH develops and offers complete turnkey solutions covering front-end engineering test, wafer probing, IC packaging and modules, materials, final test, system, and board level integration and, electronic design and manufacturing services(EMS).

Main services:
IC service
Materials: substrate design, fabrication
Test: front-end test, wafer needle test, finished product test
Packaging: packaging and module design, IC packaging, multi-chip packaging, micro and hybrid modules, memory packaging

System service
Module and motherboard design, product and system design, system integration, logistics management

MediaTek

MediaTek

Established time

1997-5-28

Headquarters

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Total assets

NT$660.88 billion (2021)

Company website

https://www.mediatek.com/

Company profile:
MediaTek is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives.

Headquartered in Hsinchu, the company has 25 offices worldwide and was the third-largest fabless chip designer worldwide in 2016. MediaTek also provides its customers with reference designs. MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in Q3 2020. MediaTek’s strong performance in regions like China and India helped it become the biggest smartphone chipset vendor.

Main products:

  • Central processing units
  • Graphics processing unit
  • Chipsets
  • Microprocessors
  • Systems-on-chip (SoCs)
  • Motherboard chipsets
  • Network interface controllers
  • Digital signal processors
  • Digital light processors
  • Integrated circuits
  • Embedded processors
  • Drivers

WT Microelectronics

WT Microelectronics

Established time

1993

Headquarters

Taiwan

Company website

https://www.wtmec.com/?lang=en

Company profile:
Established in 1993, WT Microelectronics is a leading professional service provider focusing on the global semiconductor distribution industry. It involves in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of electronic components, communication, networking, mobile, consumer, imaging, and multimedia instruments and accessories.

Headquartered in Taiwan, WT has an extensive marketing and sales channel with over 40 regional offices in China, Korea, Singapore, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

UMC

UMC

Established time

1980

Headquarters

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Company website

https://www.umc.com/en/

Company profile:
Founded in 1980, UMC is the first semiconductor company in Taiwan. UMC is the world’s leader in foundry technology, continuously launching advanced process technologies and owning the largest number of patents in the semiconductor industry. UMC’s customer-focused solutions enable chip design companies to take advantage of the company’s leading-edge process technologies, including production-proven 65nm process technology, 45/40nm process technology, mixed-signal/RFCMOS technology, and other diverse specialty process technologies. 

UMC has about 12,000 employees around the world, and has service bases in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe and the United States to meet the needs of global customers.

Supreme Electronics

Established time

1987

Headquarters

Taipei, Taiwan

Company website

http://www.supreme.com.tw/WP/

Company profile:
Supreme Electronics Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based company principally engaged in the agent distribution of semiconductor products.

Supreme Electronics Co., Ltd. distributes semiconductor parts and components, such as DRAMs (dynamic random access memories), SDRAMs (static dynamic random access memories), RDRAMs (RAMBUS dynamic random access memories), and Flash memories for Samsung, Fairchild, Trumpion, Holtek, Promax-Johnton, etc.

Supreme Electronics has grown rapidly in recent years. It is currently the third-largest semiconductor distributor in China, and its annual revenue has exceeded 100 billion RMB. Facing the rapid changes and development of the global technology industry in the past two years, the semiconductor distributor will play a role in the future. It will be more flexible and deeper.

Main products:
NAND, DRAM and other semiconductor parts and components

CCP

CCP

Established time

1964

Headquarters

Taipei, Taiwan

Company website

https://www.ccp.com.tw/ccpweb.nsf/homepage?openagent#

 

Company profile:
Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd. was started in 1964. It currently owns land in Mao-Li and DaFa, total about 114 acres. Its major products include polyvinyl alcohol, glacial acetic acid, butyl acetate, formalin, hexamine, hydrogen peroxide, ultra-purity electronic grade hydrogen peroxide, epoxidized soya bean oil, copper foil, antioxidants, melamine, etc. Products are supplied to chemical, textile, coating, resin, semi-conductor, pharmaceutical, electronic, paper, and plastic industries.

Novatek Microelectronics

Novatek Microelectronics

Established time

1997-5

Headquarters

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Total assets

NT$6.085 billion

Company website

https://www.novatek.com.tw/zh-CN/Home/Index

Company profile:
Novatek is a leading global IC design company in Taiwan, engaged in product design, R&D and sales. The main products are a full range of flat display screen driver ICs, as well as digital audio-visual and multimedia single-chip product solutions for mobile devices and consumer electronics products.

Since its establishment in 1997, the company has devoted itself to product research and development and technological innovation. Through the expansion of business and product lines, the scale of operation has continued to grow and the performance has been outstanding.

Main products and services:
Semiconductor, IC design, etc

EDOM Technology

EDOM Technology

Established time

1996

Headquarters

Taipei, Taiwan

Company website

https://www.edomtech.com/en/

Company profile:
EDOM Technology Co Ltd (EDOM Technology) operates as a distributor of electronic parts, computer hardware, software and equipment. The company offers various products which include integrated circuits ICs, discrete components, etc. Its products find applications in graphic cards, personal digital assistants PDAs, cell phones, network products, personal computers PCs, motherboards, notebook computers, embedded applications and monitors. 

It also offers platform-based turn-key solutions and problem-shooting and after-sales services. The company also provides software products. It has operations in Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, India, Japan, Malaysia and China.

Main products:
Integrated circuits ICs, discrete components, linear ICs, memory cards, central processing units CPUs, software and electronic components, etc.

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