RDC Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Taiwan, China)

RDC Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was established in 1997. Company stock issued public offering in 2002. And it began to trade at GreTai Securities Market in 2005. Compared with other domestic companies taking 16 as a starting point for MCU design, RDC is the first domestic IC design company focusing on high-frequency and energy-saving 16/32bit MCU, which results in obvious market segmentation. The majority of products are used in the areas of network, information appliance and industrial PC. Most competitors producing microcontrollers are foreign companies, such as AMD, AMD, ST and Infineon. As to the network processor IC, there are SOHO Router, Print Server and WLAN Router. In 2006, the company introduced a new product putting the CPU onto a single chip plus a DRAM, which only costs about $ 20. There are many adverse factors, such as too many competitors, price cutting to scramble for orders, pressure on product development resulted from the rapidly changing market and short product life cycles.