About Goodix Technology
Goodix is a fabless chip designer, meaning it designs chips and leaves manufacturing to outside foundries. It started with communication chips for fixed-line phones, then moved into touchscreen controllers and fingerprint sensors for smartphones, and has been expanding into IoT and automotive electronics. It also bought NXP's voice and audio business in 2019. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, and its shares have traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 2016. It is a sensor and interface supplier rather than a maker of compute processors.
Goodix Technology was founded in 2002 and is based in Shenzhen, China. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as 603160.SS on SSE.
Compute Technologies
- Fingerprint Sensors
- Touch Controllers
What Goodix Technology 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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