Rockchip

26°06′46″N 119°15′54″E / 26.112846°N 119.264960°E / 26.112846; 119.264960

Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.
Native name
瑞芯微电子股份有限公司
Company typePublic
SSE: 603893
Industry
FoundedFuzhou
2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Headquarters
Fuzhou, Fujian
,
China
Area served
Worldwide, but primarily China
Key people
  • Min Li (CEO)
  • Feng Chen (Vice President)
ProductsSemiconductors, SoC (System-on-chip)
Number of employees
700+ (2017)
Websitewww.rock-chips.com
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

Rockchip (Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Fuzhou, Fujian province. Rockchip has been providing SoC products for tablets & PCs, streaming media TV boxes, AI audio & vision, IoT hardware since founded in 2001. It has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Hong Kong.[4] It designs system on a chip (SoC) products, using the ARM architecture licensed from ARM Holdings for the majority of its projects.[5]

Rockchip was one of the top 50 fabless IC suppliers in 2018.[6] The company established cooperation with Google,[7] Microsoft[8] and Intel. On 27 May 2014, Intel announced an agreement with Rockchip to adopt the Intel architecture for entry-level tablets.[3]

Rockchip is a supplier of SoCs to Chinese white-box tablet manufacturers[9][10][11] as well as supplying OEMs such as Asus,[12][13] HP,[14] Samsung[15] and Toshiba.[16][17]

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  14. ^ "HP Slate 7 - Specifications". DeviceSpecifications. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
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