industry semiconductors founded may 2002 headquarters hsinchu science park hsinchu taiwan 1 key people wayne liang chairman steve yang . president and co founder revenue us 1.07 billion 2010 2 net income us 207 million 2010 3 website www.mstarsemi.com mstar semiconductor inc. was a fabless semiconductor company specializing in mixed mode integrated circuit technologies 4 based in hsinchu hsien taiwan . mstar makes hardware for multimedia and wireless communications in the form of display ics and mixed mode i.e. combining analog and digital functions asic ips in addition to chip sets for gsm mobile handsets . mstar employs approx . 1300 in more than 10 branches worldwide . the company s revenue was around us 1067 million in 2010 . 2 the growth has been substantial their revenue in 2005 was us 175 million . mstar is listed on the taiwan stock exchange under the code 3697 . 5 mstar is often referred as little m in chinese community as a contrary part of the bigger company big m mediatek . mstar was a spin off 2 1 stock split from system general technology in may 2002 where the power ic product line stayed in system general technology while the employees with the display and rfid product lines transferred to the new spin off . after the spin off an 1 2 stock swap was taken to exchange the two companies back to their corresponding shareholders . chairman of mstar is wayne liang while steve yang is president and co founder . in 2004 involved in a court case where in a ruling by the international trade commission itc mstar semiconductor were found guilty over infringing on a patent held by genesis microchip for a method to improve images on liquid crystal display lcd monitors and flat screen tvs . 6 merger with mediatek edit on 22 june 2012 mediatek inc. twse 2454 announced it purchased 212 million to 254 million mstar twse 3697 shares 40 % to 48 % of mstar s outstanding shares for 0.794 mediatek shares and nt 1 in cash per mstar share . 7 references edit mstar location . mstar . retrieved 2011 03 08 . a b mstar reports record sales in 2010 . the china post . retrieved 2011 03 08 . 2011 2 14 mstar semiconductor inc. 2010 q4 financial results . mstar semiconductors . retrieved 2011 03 08 . mstar semiconductor entry in businessweek mstar semiconductor files for primary listing on taiwanese stock exchange . taipei times . retrieved 2011 03 08 . mstar back to beginning with genesis mstar merger with mediatek retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mstar semiconductor & oldid 743170023 categories companies established in 2002electronics companies of taiwancompanies of taiwanfabless semiconductor companiescompanies based in hsinchu2002 establishments in taiwantaiwanese brandselectronics companies established in 2002 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 08 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view