Brian Chen

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones, and other consumer electronics products. It supports 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless communications standards. The firms solutions combine its highly integrated, power-efficient chipsets with customizable software and reference designs in a complete turnkey platform, enabling customers to achieve faster design cycles with a lower development cost. The company was founded by Da Tong Chen, Ren Yong Fan, Jin Ji, and Ping Wu in April 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Part of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., TSMC North America, Inc. is a private company that manufactures, distributes, and tests integrated circuits, silicon wafers, diodes, and related semiconductor components. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The CEO of the company is Dave Keller.