of buzzwords . specific concerns may be found on the talk page . please help improve this article if you can . february 2016 mediatek inc. native name type public traded as twse 2454 industry fabless semiconductors founded may 28 1997 ; 19 years ago 1997 05 28 headquarters hsinchu taiwan area served worldwide key people ming kai tsai chairman & ceo jyh jer cho vice chairman ching jiang hsieh president 1 products mt6589 mt8125 mt6572 mt6582 mt6592 mt6577 and many others production output 220 million smartphone chip solutions 2013 2 services chip sales system engineering and reference designs revenue nt 136 056 million us 4 500 million 2013 3 net income nt 27 485 million us 920 million 2013 3 number of employees 7 000 2012 4 website mediatek.com mediatek inc. chinese ; pinyin li nf k j g f n y uxi n g ngs is a taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides system on chip solutions for wireless communications hdtv dvd and blu ray . 5 headquartered in hsinchu taiwan the company has 25 offices worldwide and was the 4th largest fabless ic designer worldwide in 2013 . 6 7 since its founding in 1997 mediatek has been creating chipset solutions for the global market . 4 8 9 mediatek also provides its customers with reference designs . 10 the slogans of mediatek is commonly known as everyday genius . citation needed contents 1 corporate history 2 acquisitions 2.1 inprocomm 2.2 analog devices cellular chip operations 2.3 ralink 2.4 coresonic 2.5 mstar 3 financial performance 4 innovations 4.1 heterogeneous multi processing 4.2 true octa core trademark 4.3 multimode inductive and resonance wireless charging 4.4 five in one combo wireless connectivity soc 4.5 ultrahd tv platform for android tv 4.6 system in package for wrist worn wearables 5 product categories 6 markets and competition 7 product list 7.1 smartphone processors 7.1.1 2009 12 7.1.2 2013 and later armv7 7.1.2.1 dual core 7.1.2.2 quad core 7.1.2.3 hexa core octa core and deca core 7.1.3 armv8 7.1.3.1 quad core 7.1.3.2 octa and deca core 7.2 modem processors 7.3 standalone application and tablet processors 7.4 wearable device socs 7.5 wireless connectivity soc 7.6 gnss modules 7.7 ieee 802.11 7.8 digital television socs 8 references 9 external links corporate history edit mediatek was originally a unit of united microelectronics corporation umc tasked with designing chipsets for home entertainment products . 8 on may 28 1997 the unit was spun off and incorporated . mediatek inc. was listed on the taiwan stock exchange tsec under the 2454 code on july 23 2001 . 11 the company started out designing chipsets for optical drives and subsequently expanded into chip solutions for dvd players digital tvs mobile phones smartphones and tablets . 8 10 12 in general mediatek has had a strong record of gaining market share and displacing competitors after entering new markets . 10 13 14 the company s division designing solutions for mobile devices was launched in 2004 . seven years later it was taking orders for more than 500 million mobile system on chip units per annum which included solutions for both feature phones and smart devices . 8 by providing extensive system engineering assistance the company allowed many smaller companies and new entrants to enter a mobile phone market that had previously been dominated by large often vertically integrated corporations that had long been broadly entrenched in the telecommunications industry . the mobile chip market quickly became the main growth driver for the company . 8 10 13 14 at mobile world congress 2014 mediatek unveiled its new brand everyday genius dubbing the term super mid market with the vision and aiming to make smartphones more accessible affordable to the wider market . 15 as of november 2014 over 1500 mobile models accounting for 700 million units were shipped globally in 2014 using mediatek chips and the company posted revenues of us 5.3 billion in the first half of 2014 nearly as much as the whole of 2013 . 16 the revenue growth was however partly due to revenue recognition from the acquisition of mstar which became effective at the beginning of 2014 . 17 acquisitions edit inprocomm edit in 2005 mediatek acquired inprocomm a wireless semiconductor design firm producing 802.11 a b and a g chips . 18 analog devices cellular chip operations edit in 2007 mediatek acquired the cellular chip operations of analog devices for us 350 million . 19 ralink edit on may 5 2011 mediatek acquired ralink technology corporation 20 gaining products and expertise for wi fi technology for mobile and non mobile applications as well as for wired dsl and ethernet connectivity . coresonic edit on april 11 2012 mediatek acquired coresonic a global producer of digital signal processing solutions based in link ping sweden . coresonic is now a wholly owned subsidiary of mediatek in europe . 21 mstar edit on june 22 2012 mediatek announced that it would acquire rival taiwanese chipset designer mstar semiconductor inc. which held a strong market share position in digital television chips . the initial phase of the deal will see mediatek taking a 48 percent stake with an option to purchase the remaining stake at a later date . 22 the merger between mediatek and mstar was delayed by antitrust concerns of china and south korea and finally finalized on february 1 2014 . 23 financial performance edit yearly net sales and operating income in million nt 24 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 net sales 52 942 74 779 68 016 77 311 71 988 53 842 99 263 136 056 213 063 a income from operations 23 816 31 427 17 090 21 447 17 267 4 840 12 403 25 244 47 241 includes sales contribution from mstar acquisition mediatek s financial results have been subject to variation as the financial success of different product lines fluctuated . mediatek s relatively strong sales in 2009 2010 was based on its strong market position for feature phone chipsets . smartphone and tablet solutions contributed to mediatek s sales and income increase in 2013 25 while revenue recognition from the acquisition of mstar semiconductor which became effective in february 2014 as well as a continuing strong position for smartphone and tablet solutions are the main reasons for the sales growth seen in 2014 . 26 mediatek s stock has been trading on the taiwan stock exchange under the symbol twse 2454 . in its early days the stock peaked at nt 783 the all time high in april 2002 and later saw a peak of nt 656 in march 2007 . the lowest price in the period starting from 2001 was reached in january 2005 with a stock price of nt 171 . in more recent times the stock peaked at nt 590 in january 2010 and saw a low point in august 2011 at nt 221 . the stock price saw its highest level since 2010 at nt 545 on july 3 2014 . 27 28 the stock price then declined to a low near nt 400 in october 2014 before recovering to a price of nt 488 as of january 8 2015 representing a market capitalization of approximately nt 770 billion us 25 billion based on 1 571 million shares outstanding . 29 30 innovations edit this section contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . january 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message heterogeneous multi processing edit with the announcement and sampling of its mt8135 system on chip soc for tablets in july 2013 mediatek became the world s first company to demonstrate arm big.little chipsets with heterogeneous multi processing capabilities . 31 32 by concurrently allocating tasks to individual cpu cores the mt8135 could in theory offer significant power saving advantages over competing mobile device solutions . 31 a variant of the mt8135 was used by amazon in new kindle fire hd tablet models in the second half of 2014 . 33 mediatek announced the high end mt6595 platform for smartphones in february 2014 . the mt6595 is an octa core soc in a big.little configuration with lte network connectivity powered by four cortex a17 cores and four cortex a7 cores with heterogeneous multi processing capabilities . 34 35 this chip became commercially available in devices in the second half of 2014 . 36 in july 2014 mediatek announced a new product targeting the high end with a feature set largely similar to the mt6595 but instead of a heterogeneous multi processing architecture the mt6795 features eight symmetrical 64 bit cortex a53 cores in a true octa core configuration . 37 true octa core trademark edit in july 2013 mediatek became the first system on chip soc supplier to announce the development of an octa core mobile device soc capable of processing tasks with eight cpu cores concurrently a solution the company refers to as true octa core . 38 on november 20 2013 in a press event held in beijing mediatek officially announced the mt6592 soc . it s a true octa core chip with eight arm cortex a7 application processor clocked up to 1.7 2.0 ghz and mali 450 mp4 gpu clocked at 700 mhz . there is no on board lte modem but it includes nfc radio . it also supports ultrahd or 4k video playback . mediatek has subsequently introduced additional products using a true octa core cpu configuration using cortex a53 cores with support for arm s 64 bit armv8 a architecture including the mt6752 clocked at 1.7 ghz and the high end mt6795 clocked up to 2.2 ghz . devices using the mt6795 were expected to be commercially available by the end of 2014 . 37 multimode inductive and resonance wireless charging edit on january 7 2014 mediatek announced its successful development of multimode receiver technology that is compatible with inductive and resonant charging two of the common wireless charging technologies the first in the wireless charger industry in enabling multimode charging . 39 on february 24 2014 mediatek announced its mt3188 its first multimode wireless charging product certified by the power matters alliance and wireless power consortium . 40 five in one combo wireless connectivity soc edit on february 25 2014 mediatek announced the industry first five in one combo wireless soc mt6630 that supports a range of connectivity standards such as 802.11 a b g n ac advanced wi fi direct and miracast support bluetooth 4.1 ant tri band gps and fm transceiver . 41 42 ultrahd tv platform for android tv edit at the consumer electronics show in january 2015 mediatek announced its collaboration with google on the world s first ultra hd tv platform solution for android tv the mt5595 a new digital television soc . 43 it has been adopted by sony for new lcd tv models . 44 system in package for wrist worn wearables edit at the consumer electronics show in january 2016 mediatek announced its new system in package tailored for wristware including bluetooth low energy gps and support for 320 320 mipi displays . 45 in comparison to similar designs the pcb area is 41 percent smaller . 46 product categories edit mediatek delivers solutions across the mobile communications home entertainment and connectivity fields . applications for mediatek chips include smartphones and feature phones tablets digital televisions such as lcd tvs dvd and blu ray players optical drives used in pcs wi fi routers and other devices featuring wireless connectivity gps wi fi bluetooth and nfc adsl equipment and smart home appliances . 47 48 its chipsets are divided into the following product categories 47 mobile chipsets optical disc drive consumer dvd and blu ray digital tv wi fi bluetooth nfc gps xdsl markets and competition edit competitors and market share soc application historical competitors