Growing IC Companies To Scale

China's massive support programme for its chip industry looks like being being beneficial to Arm.

By David Manners - Electronics Weekly, Nov. 26, 2015 – 

ZTE, the telecoms company, is reported by Digitimes to have received $73.8 million from China's National IC Industry Investment fund to accelerate the development of Arm-based apps processors.

Other chip designers which are strongly adding to their design capabilities are reported to be Allwiner, Rockchip, Spreadtrum and HiSilicon, Huawei's chip subsidiary, which are all developing Arm-based chips.

Others reported to be expanding their development of Arm-based chips are Lenovo, the PC manufacturer, and the hand-set manufacturer Xiaomi. Xiaomi is partnering with Chinese IC design house Leadcore Technology to develop the chips.

Recently returned from China, where he met 64 CEOs at various CEO gatherings, Sir Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination Technologies, noted that several of them had received government funding of $400 million.

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