Alchip

Alchip's headquarters is in Taipei, Taiwan. Alchip also has locations in Santa Clara, California in the US, Shin-Yokohama in Japan, Shanghai, Wuxi, Hefei and Jinan in China, and Hsinchu in Taiwan.{{cite web|url=http://www.alchip.com/about_contact.php?url=6|title=AlChip Global Locations|access-date=2008-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918063047/http://www.alchip.com/about_contact.php?url=6|archive-date=2008-09-18|url-status=dead}}

In April 2002 Cadence acquired Simplex Solutions, an ASIC design services company.{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3755/is_200205/ai_n9147382|title=Cadence Design System to purchase Simplex Solutions for 5.71 times revenue|date=2002-05-02 | work=Weekly Corporate Growth Report}} Alchip was founded six months later by Kinying Kwan and other former Simplex employees as a fabless ASIC supplier. Simplex Solutions had designed the graphics ASIC for Sony's PlayStation 2 game console.{{cite web|url=http://www.alchip.com/previous/web/pdf/Alchip.pdf|title=InsideChips|date=March 2004|access-date=2008-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707104555/http://www.alchip.com/previous/web/pdf/Alchip.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-07|url-status=dead}} Sony became an important customer of Alchip as well. In 2006 80% of Alchip's revenues were from Japan, and most of that was from Sony.{{cite web|url=http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20061026/122748/ |title=Alchip Leverages Success in Japan to Enter Global Market |date=June 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927210743/http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20061026/122748/ |archivedate=2011-09-27 }} In September 2008 Alchip's relationship with Sony took another step forward when it was announced that it would partner with Sony's microelectronics to provide packaging solutions for Alchip's customer's ASICs.{{cite web|url=http://www.ednasia.com/article-21809-alchippartnerswithsonyforsocandasic-asia.html |title=Alchip Partners with Sony for SoC and ASIC |date=2008-09-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710172138/http://www.ednasia.com/article-21809-alchippartnerswithsonyforsocandasic-asia.html |archivedate=2011-07-10 }} Over the past decade, Alchip has received investments from several tech heavyweights, including Global Future Group, Investar, AcerVC, Cisco Systems, C2Capital, and notably Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the biggest contract chipmaker in the world, owns a 20% stake in the firm.{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046179/000114554908001593/h02374e6vk.htm|title=TSMC 6-K August 2008 pg. 42|date=August 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.alchip.com/about_investors.php?url=3|title=About Alchip > Investors|date=August 2008|access-date=2008-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918063107/http://www.alchip.com/about_investors.php?url=3|archive-date=2008-09-18|url-status=dead}}

On December 23, 2010, Alchip went public and was listed on the Taiwan Emergent Market under the stock ticker number 3661.

On October 28, 2014, Alchip debuted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange's main market. This move opened Alchip to institutional and private investors and boosted its profile within the industry.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

In April 2021 the US Government blacklisted seven Chinese supercomputing companies due to alleged involvement in supplying equipment to the PLA, Chinese military–industrial complex, and WMD programs. In response Alchip and TSMC suspended new orders from Chinese supercomputing company Tianjin Phytium Information Technology. Phytium accounted for 39% of Alchip's revenue.{{cite news |title=Taiwan says its chip firms will adhere to new US rules blacklisting China supercomputing entities |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-usa-semiconductors/taiwan-says-its-chip-firms-will-adhere-to-new-us-rules-blacklisting-china-supercomputing-entities-idUSL4N2M70MB |website=www.reuters.com |date=14 April 2021 |agency=Reuters |access-date=14 April 2021}}

Alchip provides physical design, design for test insertion, package design, product qualification, IP licensing, and manufacturing services for digital CMOS ASICs. Alchip has announced products in 180 nm, 130 nm, 90 nm, 65 nm, 40 nm, 32 nm, 28 nm, and 16 nm process technologies. Customer ASICs have been announced in a wide range of applications including medical image processing, supercomputing, crypto-mining and networking.{{cite web|url=http://www.alchip.com/news_01.php?id=35&typeid=1|title=Alchip Technologies selected to provide Faster Time-to-Market TurnkeySolution for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation|date=2004-10-04|access-date=2008-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707104712/http://www.alchip.com/news_01.php?id=35&typeid=1|archive-date=2011-07-07|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.alchip.com/news_01.php?id=27&typeid=1|title=Alchip Delivers First Silicon Success to TeraRecon's XTrillion Processor Chip|date=2006-04-20|access-date=2008-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707105446/http://www.alchip.com/news_01.php?id=27&typeid=1|archive-date=2011-07-07|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.alchip.com/news_01.php?id=26&typeid=1|title=Alchip Unveils First Silicon Success of the SING Processor for World's Fastest Supercomputer Developed by the University of Tokyo|date=2006-12-12|access-date=2008-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707105602/http://www.alchip.com/news_01.php?id=26&typeid=1|archive-date=2011-07-07|url-status=dead}}

Alchip adopts an open foundry model and outsources semiconductor manufacturing to TSMC, UMC, SMIC, and Samsung. It also works with captive fab such as SONY and Toshiba. As of 2014, over 85% of Alchip projects are outsourced to TSMC. Alchip also outsources packaging, assembly, and testing. Alchip owns a Verigy 93K tester platform on which it performs test development and the test of ASIC prototypes.{{cite web|url=http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=ICNews&articleid=437129|title=Alchip Selects Verigy V93000 SOC Series Pin Scale as Next Generation Test Platform|date=2007-09-15}}

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