About MediaTek

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Awards and Innovation Milestones

Awards and Innovation Milestones

2012
  • Chairman Ming-Kai Tsai was awarded as “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review
  • The winner of “Outstanding Asia-Pacific Semiconductor Company Award” selected by GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance)
  • 2012 SIPA Innovative Product Award, MT6620 Highly Integrated WiFi/BT/FM/GPS 4-in-1 SOC
  • 2012 Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards : Top 5 Corporate Innovators in Taiwan

  • Awarded "2012 Most Admired Company in Taiwan Top 3" by "Common Wealth Magazine"

  • Ming-Kai Tsai, Chairman & CEO of MediaTek Inc, awarded  "Academician of ITRI(Industrial Technology Research Institute), R.O.C."

  • MediaTek Android smartphone platform has been included in the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED PasspointTM test bed as the first and only mobile benchmark platform

  • MediaTek papers selected for presentation at 2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits- the only fabless semiconductor company to have more than two papers selected for presentation at the 2012 Symposium

  • Ralink Technology,a wholly owned subsidiary of MediaTek Inc, was selected to be in the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WMM®-Admission Control test bed as the benchmark for advanced Wi-Fi performance and interoperability

  • Awarded "2012 INFO TECH TOP 100 in Asia" by "Business Next" magazine 

  • Awarded 6th National Telecom Award 2012– “Best Innovation in Mobile Video Technology” by "CMAI Association of India"

  • Published papers in ISSCC --
    - A 4-in-1 (WiFi/BT/FM/GPS) Connectivity SoC with Enhanced Co-Existence Performance in 65nm CMOS
    - Near Independently Regulated 5-Output Single-Inductor DC-DC Buck Converter Delivering 1.2W/mm2 in 65 nm CMOS

2011
  • 2011 SIPA Innovative Product Award, MT5395 High-Integrated 3D TV/Internet TV SOC

  • Consecutively awarded "2011 Most Admired Company in Taiwan Top 10" from 2003 by "Common Wealth Magazine"

  • Awarded 5th National Telecom Award 2011– “Best Technology for Mobile Phone” by "CMAI Association of India"

  • The winner of "The FT ArcelorMittal Boldness In Business Award" for "the 2010 Emerging Market"

  • Published paper in ISSCC --
      - An Injection-Locked Ring PLL with Self-Aligned Injection Window 
      - A 70Mb/s -100.5dBm Sensitivity 65nm lP MIMO Chipset for WiMaX Portable Router (Industrial Demo)
      - A Saw-Less GSM/GPRS/EDGE Receiver Embedded in a 65nm CMOS Soc (Industrial Demo)
      - A Receiver for WCDMA/EDGE Mobile Phones with Inductorless Front-End in 65nm CMOS
      - A GPS/Galileo Soc with Adaptive in-Band Blocker Cancellation in 65nm CMOS

2010
  • Established MediaTek (Wuhan) Inc. in December, 2010
    Ranked no. 2 of World's best performance technology companies Top 10 by “The Boston Consulting Group”
    Ranked no.6 of 2010 Asia's 200 most-admired companies by "The Wall Street Journal"

  • Established MediaTek (Chengdu) Inc. in September, 2010
    Awarded "2010 Most Admired Company in Taiwan Top 10"  2003 by "Common Wealth Magazine"
    Consecutively awarded "Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility Top 50" from 2007 to 2010 by Common Wealth Magazine
     Awarded no. 12 of Global Top 100 High-Tech Companies by "Bloomberg Business Week"

  • Published paper in ISSCC --「23.6 A 1V 17.9dBm 60GHz Power Amplifier in Standard 65nm CMOS」 and 「11.3 A SiGe BiCMOS 16-Element Phased-Array Transmitter for 60GHz Communications」
    Awarded "2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Top 65" by “Global Views Monthly”

2009
  • 2009 SIPA Innovative Product Award, High Sensitivity GPS SOC

  • The winner of “2009 APAC Leadership Council Award ” selected by GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance)

  • Awarded “Best investor relations by a CEO – Taiwan” by "IR magazine"

  • Awarded “Best investor relations for a corporate transaction ”by "IR magazine"

  • The winner of “Best Overall Corporate Governance in Taiwan”selected by "Asiamoney"

  • Published paper in ISSCC --

    1. A Multi-Format Blu-ray Player SoC in 90nm CMOS

    2. A 1.2V 2MHz BW 0.084mm2 CT ΔΣ ADC with -97.7dBc THD and 80dB DR Using Low-Latency DEM

    3. A 250Mb/s-to-3.4Gb/s HDMI Receiver with Adaptive Loop Updating Frequencies and an Adaptive Equalizer

    4. A 110nm RFCMOS GPS SoC with 34mW -165dBm Tracking Sensitivity

  • Awarded “ 2009 Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility top 50” by "Common Wealth Magazine"

2008
  • 2008 SIPA Innovative Product Award, Full HD ATSC iDTV SOC

  • Awarded “2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Award” by “Global Views Monthly”

  • Awarded “ 2008 Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility top 50” by "Common Wealth Magazine"

  • Published paper in ISSCC --「A 1V 11b 200MS/s Pipelined ADC with Digital Background Calibration in 65nm CMOS」 and 「A Fractional Spur Free All-Digital PLL with Loop Gain Calibration and Phase Noise Cancellation for GSM/GPRS/EDGE」

  • The winner of “This year's Best Financially Managed Company Award” selected by GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance)

2007
  • Won “Distinguished Innovation Accomplishment Award” at the 15th ITA Award by Ministry of Economic Affairs

  • The winner of “This year's Best Financially Managed Company Award” selected by FSA (Fabless Semiconductor Association) in consecutive year.

  • Published paper in ISSCC --「RTL-based Clock recovery architecture with all-digital duty-cycle correction」

  • Published paper in IEEE IRPS (International Reliability Physics Symposium) --「A new device reliability evaluation method for overdrive voltage circuit application」

  • The winner of “Forbes FAB 50”

  • Awarded "2007 Most Admired Company in Taiwan" by "Common Wealth Magazine"

  • Awarded “2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Award” by “Global Views Monthly”

  • Awarded “ 2007 Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility top 50” by "Common Wealth Magazine"

2006
  • The winner of “This year's Best Financially Managed Company Award” selected by FSA (Fabless Semiconductor Association)

  • 2006 SIPA Innovative Product Award, Blu-ray Chip set

  • The winner of “Forbes FAB 50”

  • Published paper in ISSCC: "Fully Integrated CMOS SoC for 56/18/16 CD/DVD-dual/RAM Applications"

  • Digital TV chip and Blu-ray chip solution offering

2005
  • 2005 SIPA Innovative Product Award, Multimedia GSM/GPRS Mobile Phone Chipset

  • HDTV-reading SOC, Super-multi SOC

  • Published paper in ISSCC:
    1. Multi-Format Read/Write SoC for 7x Blu-ray/16x DVD/56xCD
    2. DLL-Based Clock Recovery In a PRML Channel  

  • The winner of “Forbes FAB 50”

  • Awarded "2005 Most Admired Company in Taiwan" by "Common Wealth Magazine"

2004
  • 2004 SIPA Innovative Product Award, DVD-Recorder Backend Single Chip

  • Published paper in ISSCC --Combo Driver Applications
  • Ranked No. 3 by Euromoney for “Best Corporate Governance in Taiwan”

  • Awarded "2004 Most Admired Company in Taiwan" by "Common Wealth Magazine"

2003
  • 2003 SIPA Innovative Product Award, 8xS DVD-Dual chipset

  • The 15th Executive Yuan National Quality Award

  • DVD-Dual chipset solution offering

  • Ranked No.1 by Business Next Taiwan for “Info Tech 100”

2002
  • 2002 SIPA Innovative Product Award, High-speed COMBI chipset

  • 48X CD-RW chipset solution offering

  • Combi chipset solution offering

2001
  • 2001 SIPA Innovative Product Award, High integrated DVD-Player chipset

  • 2001 MOEA Award for Industrial Technology Advancement

  • Listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) under the ticker of 2454 

2000
  • 2000 SIPA Innovative Product Award, 12/8/40 CD-R/RW chipset

  • 12X CD-R/RW chipset solution offering

1999
  • 1999 SIPA Innovative Product Award, 12xS DVD-ROM chipset

  • 12X DVD-ROM chipset solution offering

1998
  • 1998 SIPA Innovative Product Award, CD-ROM Digital data/servo processor

  • 48X CD-ROM chipset solution offering

1997
  • MediaTek was established