About Actions Semiconductor
Actions Semiconductor was a fabless chip designer, meaning it designed chips and left manufacturing to foundries, based in Zhuhai, China. Its original business was system-on-chip designs for tablets, media players and set-top boxes, and it was listed on Nasdaq until a merger with Starman Limited completed in December 2016. The audio chip business described today, covering Bluetooth audio, smart wearables and edge AI processors, is run by Actions Technology Co., Ltd., also headquartered in Zhuhai and listed on Shanghai's STAR market. This record may mix the two entities.
Actions Semiconductor was founded in 1999 and is based in Zhuhai, China. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as 688049.SS on SSE.
Compute Technologies
- Bluetooth SoCs
- Audio Chips
What Actions Semiconductor works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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