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 Amlogic headquarters in Santa Clara, California | |
| Company type | Public |
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| SSE: 688099 | |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | March 14, 1995 |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Area served | Worldwide, but primarily China |
Key people | John Zhong (CEO) |
| Products | SoC integrated circuits |
Number of employees | 540 (2013) [citation needed] |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Amlogic Inc. (sometimes stylized AMLogic) is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded on March 14, 1995, in Santa Clara, California and is predominantly focused on designing and selling system on a chip integrated circuits. Like most fabless companies in the industry, the company outsources the actual manufacturing of its chips to third-party independent chip manufacturers such as TSMC. Its main target applications as of 2021 are entertainment devices such as Android TV-based devices and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes, media dongles, smart TVs and tablets. It has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Hefei, Nanjing, Qingdao, Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, Mumbai, London, Munich, Indianapolis, Milan, Novi Sad and Santa Clara, California.[3]
It developed Video CD player chips and later chips for DVD players and other applications involving MPEG2 decoding.[4] Am logic was involved in the creation of the HVD (High-Definition Versatile Disc) standard promoted in China as an alternative to DVD video disks used in DVD players.[5] The company was a player in the developing Chinese tablet processor market since 2010–2013.[6][7]
Am logic is an ARM licensee[8][9] and uses the ARM architecture in the majority of its products as of 2014[update]. According to a joint press release with ARM in 2013, it was the first company to use ARM's Mali-450 GPU in a configuration with six cores or more.[10]
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- ^ "China Fabless: Allwinner's secret to tablet IC success". EE Times. 2013-04-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
- ^ "Space: Amlogic | ARM Connected Community". arm. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- ^ "ARM Mali GPU Licensees Increase to 18 with Addition of Amlogic and Mtekvision". arm. 12 February 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-10-06. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
- ^ "Amlogic Answers the UHD Challenge with Landmark Implementation of ARM Mali-450 MP6 GPU". Business Wire. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 2014-04-22.