18 Facts About Tsinghua Unigroup

Tsinghua Unigroup is a state-owned Chinese technology and semiconductor manufacturer that supplies digital infrastructure and services to domestic and global markets.

Tsinghua Unigroup has five main subsidiaries: Yangtze Memory Technologies, New H3C Technologies, UNISOC Communications Co, Guoxin Micro, and UniCloud Technology Co.

Tsinghua Unigroup operates a joint venture with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as H3C Technologies Co, created after Tsinghua Unigroup purchased a 51 percent stake.

Tsinghua Unigroup was founded in 1988 by Tsinghua Holdings, a wholly-owned business unit of Tsinghua University, a major state research university in Beijing.

Tsinghua Unigroup was founded as Tsinghua University Sci-Tech General Company, then renamed Tsinghua Unigroup in 1993.

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Tsinghua Unigroup is a fabless semiconductor company that is 51 percent owned by Tsinghua Holdings and 49 percent owned by Beijing Jiankun Investment Group; the latter is led by Tsinghua Unigroup chairman and CEO Zhao Weiguo.

Tsinghua Unigroup chaired several of Tsinghua Unigroup's subsidiaries, including Unisplendour and Unigroup Guoxin Micro, until 2018.

In 2013 and 2014, Tsinghua Unigroup acquired, first, Spreadtrum Communications, now UNISOC, a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms, then RDA Microelectronics, a semiconductor component manufacturer.

In 2014, Tsinghua Unigroup consolidated Spreadtrum and RDA to create UniSpreadtrum RDA, later UNISOC, in which Intel Corp.

In May 2015, Tsinghua Unigroup acquired a 51 percent stake in Hewlett-Packard's H3C Technologies, a China-based data-networking company, for approximately $2.

In 2016, Tsinghua Unigroup partnered with Western Digital to establish a big data storage joint venture, Unis WDC Storage Co.

In 2016, Tsinghua Unigroup founded Yangtze Memory Technologies, its IDM memory subsidiary.

In 2017, Tsinghua Unigroup announced plans to build two new memory-chip factories, in Nanjing and Chengdu.

In June 2018, Tsinghua Unigroup acquired French smart chip components maker Linxens for a reported $2.

Tsinghua Unigroup broke ground in September 2019, and construction of a main factory building was completed in July 2020.

News agencies reported in January 2022 that Tsinghua Unigroup had scrapped its intention to build two major fabs announced in 2017, citing serious financial issues.

Tsinghua Unigroup founded YMTC in July 2016, together with Hubei provincial government and the Chinese national "Big Fund" China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund with a total investment of $24 billion.

In June 2019, Guoxin Micro announced a plan to acquire Tsinghua Unigroup Liansheng, including its main asset, Linxens; the deal was rejected by the Chinese securities regulator the following year.