#China tech

Since telecom wasn’t globally standardized at the time and China had its own 3G networks that global manufacturers found difficult to support, the company sought to develop a chipset that solved these issues. They succeeded at this and quickly became the go-to of the country’s largest telecom provider, China Mobile. Samsung, the world’s largest phone manufacturer at the time, chose to experiment with a Spreadtrum in its China release of the Samsung Galaxy Y. With this China device displaying similar performance and reliability to its global counterpart, it was time for Samsung to begin installing it in global devices. Notable developments include an Intel investment, which not only injected funding but also gave the team the necessary technical knowledge to evolve their craft further; as well as a partnership with RDA Microelectronics, a company specializing in wireless chips. Despite its rising fame though, Spreadtrum’s low cost meant they’d be put in the cheapest devices you’d find on the back corner shelf of a tech store. The brand followed it up by releasing multiple iterations of the Tiger chipset at various price points (nothing above mid-range, of course.) This saw massive adoption, not only by big smartphone manufacturers, but the “Shopee-special” tablet brands from China that could now compete without much compromise. Read more in our articles including "Rise of the Dragon: The UNISOC Story" and "YugaTech Ovi App for Nokia Phones".