Faraday Technology is a turnkey application-specific IC (ASIC

ASIC

ASIC may refer to:* Application-specific integrated circuit, an integrated circuit developed for a particular use, as opposed to a customised general-purpose device.* ASIC programming language, a dialect of BASIC...

) and silicon intellectual property

Silicon intellectual property

Silicon Intellectual Property is a business model for a semiconductor company where the company licenses its technology to a customer as intellectual property. This is a type of fabless semiconductor company which doesn't provide physical chips to its customers but merely facilitates the...

 (SIP) provider headquartered in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

, with a network of sales and research offices in the United States, Japan, Europe, and China.
Its customers range from IDM, system houses, and fabless IC design houses, covering wide applications such as multimedia, communication, PC peripherals, display, storage, and consumer electronics.

Faraday is affiliated with United Microelectronics Corporation

United Microelectronics Corporation

UMC was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute .-Overview:...

Its IP core portfolio includes Cell Library, Memory Compiler, ARM

ARM architecture

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

-compliant CPUs, DDRII/DDRIII, MPEG4, H.264, USB 3.0

USB 3.0

USB 3.0 is the second major revision of the Universal Serial Bus standard for computer connectivity.USB 3.0 has transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0 . USB 3.0 significantly reduces the time required for data transmission, reduces power consumption, and...

/USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial ATA

Serial ATA

Serial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...

, PCI Express

PCI Express

PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...

, and all fundamental IP such as AD, DA, PLL, regulators, etc.