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MediaTek company history timeline

1997

On May 28, 1997, the unit was spun off and incorporated.

Since its founding in 1997, MediaTek has been creating chipsets for the global market.MediaTek also provides its customers with reference designs.

2000

According to Forbes, it is considered one of the top 2000 largest public companies in the world.

2001

MediaTek Inc. was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) under the "2454" code on July 23, 2001

2004

The company's first big moment was in 2004, when it decided to enter the mobile market.

The company launched a division to design solutions for mobile devices in 2004.

2005

In 2005, MediaTek acquired Inprocomm, a wireless semiconductor design company.

2008

In 2008, the company acquired Analog Devices cellular radio and baseband chipset divisions.

2011

In 2011, it acquired Ralink Technology Corporation, gaining products and expertise for Wi-Fi technology for mobile and non-mobile applications, as well as for wired DSL and Ethernet connectivity.

2012

In 2012, it acquired Coresonic, a global producer of digital signal processing products based in Linköping, Sweden.

2013

• 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.

• 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.

2014

• On 7 January 2014, MediaTek announced its 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.

• On 25 February 2014, MediaTek announced the industry first five-in-one combo wireless SoC MT6630 that supports a range of connectivity standards such as 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, advanced Wi-Fi Direct and Miracast support, Bluetooth 4.1, ANT+, tri-band GPS and FM transceiver.

In 2014, MediaTek acquired the Taiwanese chipset designer MStar Semiconductor, Inc.

2016

In 2016, it completed the acquisition of Richtek Technology Corp., a fabless vendor of analog ICs and power management ICs.

2018

In 2018, this number grew to 50 million of units sold only by MediaTek.

Now, in the same way that it revolutionized the 4G era, the company seeks the same with the implementation of 5G. In 2018, the company announced the MT6885 chip that has 5G technology and is currently in the mass production stage.

2019

In 2019, MediaTek joined the 5G race by launching the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 processor which offers an impressive integrated 5G modem and 5G+5G dual-SIM. It’s all set to make the barriers between mobile, home and auto vanish into the vast universe of the world wide web.

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