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GigaDevice

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GigaDevice is a Beijing-based chip designer that sells specialty memory (mainly NOR flash and specialty DRAM), microcontrollers, sensor chips and analog chips. It does not own fabs; its DRAM products are made for it under foundry arrangements, including by CXMT.

AI-adjacentChip mfg & packaging
What it does

GigaDevice is a Beijing-based chip designer that sells specialty memory (mainly NOR flash and specialty DRAM), microcontrollers, sensor chips and analog chips. It does not own fabs; its DRAM products are made for it under foundry arrangements, including by CXMT.

Why it matters

Its chips go mostly into consumer electronics, cars, industrial equipment and IoT devices; it says it will treat AI as a strategic driver and sells some products aimed at edge AI and data centers, but AI is not yet its main business. It is on an AI map because of those products and its close ties to Chinese DRAM maker CXMT.

How it makes money

Electronics, automotive and industrial manufacturers pay it for memory chips, microcontrollers, sensors and analog chips.

Geography

China (Beijing)

AI stack position

Chip manufacturing, memory and packaging. The foundries, memory makers, and packaging and testing businesses that physically manufacture AI chips. This is where a chip design actually becomes a real, physical piece of silicon.

Same-layer peers

Same-layer peers share an editorial stack classification. That alone does not establish direct competition.

Earnings

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Connections (2)

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Current relationships (2)

GigaDevice holds a minority stake in CXMT
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GigaDevice's 2025 annual report says it held 1.80% of CXMT's shares at an investment cost of RMB 2.3 billion.

Source: 2026-04-02 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating (as of end-2025)

Limits: Holding as of end-2025, before CXMT's July 2026 IPO; does not establish the current percentage after dilution or any control.

GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. 2025 Annual Report (HKEX filing) ↗
GigaDevice buys foundry-made DRAM products from CXMT
Buys fromCurrent
GigaDevice disclosed that it procures DRAM-related products manufactured under foundry arrangements from the CXMT group, with 2025 transactions of about RMB 1.18 billion and an estimate of US$221 million for the first half of 2026; its chairman also chairs CXMT.

Source: 2026-01-22 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The 2026 figure is an estimate approved for a shareholder vote; does not establish actual 2026 purchases, pricing, or which products are involved.

GigaDevice Notice of the 2026 First Extraordinary General Meeting (HKEX filing) ↗
Evidence for this profile

GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. 2025 Annual Report (HKEX filing) ↗
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