Founded in April 2001, Spreadtrum is headquartered in Shanghai, China with R&D centers in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin, China and San Diego, USA, technical support center in Shenzhen, and international field support offices in Korea, Taiwan and India. SpreadtrumÍs products support a broad range of wireless communications standards, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA, HSPA+ and TD-LTE. Spreadtrum's key strength is its passion for technical innovation, with notable industry firsts in multi-SIM, 40nm baseband, single-chip multimode RF transceivers, and low-power TD-SCDMA smartphone technologies. Spreadtrum combines its expertise in wireless broadband, signal processing and IC design technology and software development to offer terminal manufacturers a comprehensive portfolio of highly integrated baseband processor and RF solutions, protocol software and software application platforms for wireless devices. One of ChinaÍs leading mobile IC suppliers, Spreadtrum is committed to the development of ChinaÍs wireless communications market and believes that its people are instrumental to its long-term success. Spreadtrum continuously invests in education and training to cultivate its staffÍs creativity and leverages employee talent from around the world to achieve its aim of developing the worldÍs leading technologies and products. Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Shanghai and an affiliate of Tsinghua Unigroup, Ltd. Tsinghua Unigroup is an operating subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd., a solely state-owned limited liability corporation funded by Tsinghua University in China. Spreadtrum was acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup on December 23, 2013.