Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets high performance, low-power semiconductor solutions for multimedia consumer electronics applications, such as mobile phones and smartphones, digital cameras, camcorders, notebook and tablet PCs, and personal navigation devices.
Founded in 1995 in San Jose, California, Silicon Motion is currently headquartered in Taiwan, with design centers and sales offices in Taiwan, Korea, China, and the US, and a branch office in Japan.
Silicon Motion has three product lines: mobile storage, mobile communications, and multimedia SoCs. Mobile storage products are composed of microcontrollers used in NAND flash memory storage products such as flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives (SSDs), and embedded flash solutions. Mobile communications products are composed primarily of mobile TV IC solutions as well as, LTE and CDMA transceivers. Multimedia SoC products are composed primarily of embedded graphics processors.
Silicon Motion is the global leader and pioneer in developing microcontroller ICs for NAND flash storage devices and specialty RF ICs for mobile devices. Our products are widely used in many of the leading smartphones and other mobile devices in the market today. More NAND flash products, especially next generation flash, whether produced by Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba, Micron, Intel or Hynix, are supported by Silicon Motion controllers than any other company. Silicon Motion leads the industry in supplying innovative controllers for managing the latest generation TLC (3-bits per cell) and the most advanced process geometry NAND flash. We are a leader in memory card and flash drive controllers and are increasingly focused on e•MMC and SSD controllers for smartphones, tablets, and notebook PCs. Silicon Motion is also a leading mobile TV IC solutions provider and a leading provider of wireless transceivers for 4G LTE smartphones and tablets. We market our Mobile Storage and Multimedia SoC products under the “SMI” brand and Mobile Communications products under the “FCI” brand.
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