Montage Technology Group Limited provides analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions addressing the home entertainment and cloud computing markets.
In the home entertainment market, the company’s technology platform enables it to design integrated solutions with customized software and support for set-top boxes. The company’s solutions are designed to optimize signal processing performance under the challenging operating conditions found in emerging market environments, where often broadca...
Montage Technology Group Limited provides analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions addressing the home entertainment and cloud computing markets.
In the home entertainment market, the company’s technology platform enables it to design integrated solutions with customized software and support for set-top boxes. The company’s solutions are designed to optimize signal processing performance under the challenging operating conditions found in emerging market environments, where often broadcast signals coming into the set-top box may be weak, distorted, or off-specification.
In the cloud computing market, the company offers low power memory interface solutions that enable memory-intensive server applications. The company’s technology platform approach allows it to provide integrated solutions that meet the expanding needs of its customers.
Solutions
The company designs, develops, and markets a range of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for set-top boxes targeting emerging markets, as well as memory interface solutions for the cloud computing markets. Its solutions comprise one or more analog and mixed-signal semiconductors combined with field application and other support services.
Set-Top Box Solutions
The company markets a range of high performance and multi-standard compliant high-definition television (HDTV) and standard-definition television (SDTV) semiconductor solutions for set-top boxes, including tuners, demodulators and decoders, as well as integrated solutions with customized software and support. The company provides an integrated solution by combining its radio frequency and analog hardware design and customized software. The company’s integrated solutions can combine tuner, demodulator, and decoding technology in a single semiconductor solution. It offers set-top box solutions for satellite, cable, and terrestrial broadcasts, with a particular strength in satellite and cable set-top boxes aimed at emerging markets. The company’s tuner and demodulator solutions are compatible with both SDTV and HDTV signals. The company primarily markets its decoder solutions for SDTV. It also launched an HDTV decoder solution in 2013.
Memory Interface Solutions
The company has designed and developed advanced memory interface solutions that provide ultra-low power consumption and high performance, including high speed processing, as well as signal integrity, for use in data center servers. The company designs its memory interface solutions in close collaboration with its memory module manufacturer end customers, as well as server original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and central processing unit (CPU) manufacturers to meet required design specifications. Additionally, its built-in self-test capabilities help memory module manufacturers and server OEMs to validate memory performance.
The company’s memory interface solutions include register buffers for third generation of double data rate (DDR3) registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs) and memory buffers for DDR3 load-reduced dual in-line memory modules (LRDIMMs). Its memory interface solutions for DDR3 are Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC) standard-compliant. The company is working with JEDEC and other key industry participants, including CPU and memory module manufacturers to develop the first generation of DDR4 (fourth generation of DDR)-compliant memory interface solutions, including a registering clock driver and a data buffer. In July 2013, the company introduced its DDR4 registering clock driver and data buffer for DDR4 RDIMMs and LRDIMMs.
Strategy
The company's business strategy is to invest to maintain technology leadership position across product lines; strengthen its relationships with customers and industry participants; expand product offering and market share in home entertainment for emerging markets; and continue to position the company for growth in the cloud computing market.
Sales and Distribution
In line with general market practice, the company sells its set-top box solutions to its end customers through distributors. Once its end customers assemble various components into set-top boxes, the set-top boxes are then sold to set-top box retailers or cable network operators. The company’s set-top box solutions have been incorporated in set-top boxes sold globally to retail outlets and cable network operators in China, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, and other emerging market geographies. The company typically sells its memory interface solutions directly to memory module manufacturers.
The company sells a majority of its set-top box solutions to end customers through three independent distributors, including LQW Technology Company Limited; Qinuo International Co., Ltd.; and China Electronic Appliance Shenzhen Co., Ltd.
End Customers
The company sells its set-top box solutions, directly and through distributors, to end customers who are manufacturers of set-top boxes or televisions in China and internationally and to cable network operators in China. The company’s set-top box solutions have been shipped to approximately 150 end customers. In 2012, its set-top box end customer included Shenzhen Changhong Digital Technology Limited.
The company sells its memory interface solutions to memory module manufacturers globally. The company has sold its memory interface solutions to four memory module manufacturers, including Samsung Electronics; SK Hynix Semiconductor, Inc.; Elpida Memory Inc.; and Micron Technology, Inc., as well as to Kingston Technology, the third-party dynamic random-access memory module supplier.
Research and Development
In 2012, the company’s research and development expenses included $17.6 million.
Intellectual Property
The company relies on a combination of intellectual property rights, including patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks, and contractual protections, to protect its core technology and intellectual property. As of June 30, 2013, the company had 20 and 17 issued patents in the United States and China, respectively; and 15, 29, and 2 patent applications pending in the United States, China, and Taiwan, respectively. Among these 83 issued and pending patents, 40 of them relate to technology and design features of its set-top box solutions, 37 of them relate to technology and design features of its memory interface solutions and 6 are related to Wi-Fi technology.
Competition
The company’s primary competitors in the set-top box market include semiconductor companies that sell to emerging markets, such as HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd.; ALi Corporation; RDA Microelectronics, Inc.; Airoha Technology Corporation; and STMicroelectronics NV. Its competitors in the memory interface market include Inphi Corporation; Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; and Texas Instruments Inc.
History
Montage Technology Group Limited was founded in 2004. The company was incorporated as an international business company with limited liability under International Business Companies Act, 1984 of the British Virgin Islands in 2004 and continued to, and registered in the Cayman Islands as an exempted company in 2006.
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