About MegaChips
History
| 1990 | Apr | Established in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, and started a contract development operation. |
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| 1991 | Aug | Started customer specific LSI business. |
| 1995 | Sep | Started MegaChips-brand application specific LSI business. |
| Oct | Started Systems products business. | |
| 1996 | Jan | Head office moved to Yodogawa-ku, Osaka. |
| 1998 | Feb | Tokyo sales office, responsible for sales in the eastern area of Japan, opened. |
| Aug | Listed on the Japanese OTC market. | |
| Dec | Visual Communication Inc., a joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd., was established in Osaka for sales of systems products. | |
| 2000 | Apr | Visual Communication, Inc. was merged with Cameo Interactive, Ltd., to form a new company, Megafusion Corporation. |
| Dec | MegaChips was listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. (TSE: 6875) | |
| 2003 | Oct | MegaChips made MegaFusion Corporation, later renamed to MegaChips System Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary through a share swap. |
| 2004 | Feb | Obtained ISO14001 certification. |
| Apr | After groupwide restructuring, MegaChips Corporation shifted to the holding company, under which two subsidiaries were formed: MegaChips LSI Solutions, Inc. for the LSI business; and MegaChips System Solutions, Inc. for the systems business and audio authoring business. Audio authoring business was transferred to a newly established subsidiary, Cameo Interactive. Ltd. |
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| Oct | MegaChips sold all outstanding shares Cameo Interactive, Ltd. To the e frontier, Inc. | |
| 2005 | May | Acquired shares of Shun Yin Investment Ltd. |
| 2006 | Mar | Obtained ISO9001 certification. |
| 2007 | Apr | MegaChips Corporation adapts a resolution to merge its subsidiaries MegaChips LSI Solutions Inc. and MegaChips Systems Solutions Inc. |
| 2012 | July | MegaChips acquired 100% share and made Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary. |
| 2013 | Apr | MegaChips Corporation and Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc. completed a merger. |
| Sep | MegaChips Taiwan Corporation was established as regional headquarters in East Asia. | |
| 2014 | Nov | MegaChips acquired SiTime Corporation and entered into timing device market. |
| 2019 | Jan | MegaChips transferred its System Product Division to Sense Things Japan INC., a consolidated subsidiary of Mamezou Holdings Co., LTD. |
| Nov | SiTime Corporation was listed on the NASDAQ Global Market. | |
| 2020 | Mar | MegaChips LSI USA Corporation started a business activity as a sales base of North America. |
| Jun | SiTime reclassified as an equity method subsidiary by MegaChips' partial sale of SiTime's shares. | |
| 2021 | Jun | MegaChips LSI USA Corporation invested in an establishment of MegaChips VC USA LLC, Corporate Venture Capital Fund (consolidated subsidiary). |
| 2022 | Apr | MegaChips transitioned to “Prime Market”. MegaChips LSI USA Corporation invested in an establishment of MegaChips VC2 USA LLC, Corporate Venture Capital Fund (consolidated subsidiary). |
| 2023 | Jan | MegaChips and MegaChips LSI USA Corporation invested in LDVP MCC Co-Investment Fund, L.P. and made it to a consolidated subsidiary. |
| 2024 | Mar | SiTime was excluded from the scope of equity method associates. |
