MediaTek
Taiwan-listed fabless semiconductor company that designs chipsets for smartphones, connectivity, IoT, automotive and data centers. Reported 2025 revenue of NT$596 billion.
Industry: Fabless semiconductors | Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan | Founded: 1997
About MediaTek
MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, whose shares trade on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the code 2454. It designs chipsets for smartphones, smart home devices, networking and connectivity, internet of things products, laptops and tablets, and automotive systems, and it also builds custom chips for data centers. MediaTek says its chipsets power more than 2 billion devices a year.
According to Wikipedia, the company was founded on 28 May 1997 as a spin-off from United Microelectronics Corporation. Ming-Kai Tsai is chairman. Rick Tsai is vice chairman and chief executive, Joe Chen is president and chief operating officer, and David Ku is co-chief operating officer and chief financial officer. At the end of 2025 MediaTek had 19,785 staff including contractors, working across 35 sites worldwide. Its sustainability report lists offices in New Cairo, Egypt, and in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The smartphone range includes the Dimensity 5G and Helio 4G families. Other lines include the Genio platform for internet of things devices, Kompanio for laptops and tablets, and Filogic Wi-Fi chips. Wikipedia lists acquisitions that include the cellular and baseband divisions of Analog Devices in 2008, Ralink in 2011, MStar Semiconductor in 2014 and Richtek in 2016.
In 2026 MediaTek announced a multi-year collaboration with Foxtron, a Hon Hai subsidiary, on AI-powered vehicles, and in August it expanded its work with NVIDIA on edge-to-cloud AI computing, adopting NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion platform. In June 2026 MediaTek led an 80 million dollar Series C round in HyperLight, a US photonics company. Brian Hsu, managing director of the MediaTek Innovation Fund, commented on the investment.
MediaTek reported 2025 revenue of NT$596 billion, up 12.3 percent from 2024, and net income of NT$106.1 billion, down 1 percent, in its fourth-quarter earnings call on 4 February 2026. Operating income was NT$103.5 billion. Chief executive Rick Tsai told analysts on that call that the company was very confident of data center ASIC revenue above 1 billion dollars in 2026 and multiple billions in 2027.
Leadership
- Ming-Kai Tsai, Chairman
- Rick Tsai, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Joe Chen, President and Chief Operating Officer
- David Ku, Co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
- Kevin Jou, Corporate Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
- David Su, Corporate Senior Vice President and General Counsel