Tsinghua Unigroup is a well-known supplier of mobile phone chips, dedicated to the development of mobile phone chip platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronic products
Spreadtrum Communications Limited ("Spreadtrum") develops mobile chip platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products that support 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communication standards. Based on highly integrated and high-performance chips, combined with customized software and reference solutions, Spreadtrum can provide a complete turnkey platform solution to help customers achieve faster design cycles and effectively reduce development costs. Spreadtrum's customers include global and local manufacturers to provide superior mobile phone products to consumers in China and emerging markets around the world.
Founded in April 2001, Spreadtrum is headquartered in Shanghai, with R&D centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Xiamen, San Diego, San Jose and Finland in the United States, technical support centers in Shenzhen, and international support offices in Taiwan, India and Mexico. Spreadtrum's products support multi-standard broadband wireless communications, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA, HSPA and TD-LTE.
Spreadtrum's continuous technological innovation continues to lead the industry's first 40nm baseband chip, multi-mode single-chip RF transceiver, and low-power TD-SCDMA smartphone. Spreadtrum's R&D expertise in wireless broadband, signal processing, integrated circuit design technology and software development provides terminal manufacturers with a full range of highly integrated baseband processors, RF solutions, protocol software and software application platforms based on wireless terminals.
As one of China's leading suppliers of mobile phone chips, Spreadtrum is committed to driving the growth and success of China's wireless communications market. Spreadtrum continues to invest in education and training, nurturing the creativity of its employees, and combining global talent to create world-leading technologies and products.
Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. ("Spreadtrum Group") is a privately held company owned by Unisplendour Group Limited ("Unisplendour Group") headquartered in Shanghai. Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd. is the absolute controlling shareholder of Tsinghua Unigroup, a wholly state-owned limited liability company funded by Tsinghua University.Spreadtrum was acquired by Unigroup on December 23, 2013.
