#Spreadtrum

The Early Days Unisoc actually started as Spreadtrum Electronics, a small company built by Chinese entrepreneurs freshly returned from Silicon Valley. This is why so many no-brand devices being sold at the time came with Spreadtrum chips installed. 2011 Market Breakthrough Spreadtrum's first big break came in 2011. 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. The Samsung Galaxy Star (2013) featured a single-core Spreadtrum processor. Spreadtrum continued supplying chipsets to entry-level and midrange devices globally. 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. This did not pan out so well for Spreadtrum’s reputation, which had been tarnished by short-lived obsolete phones, often badly-made clones of real devices. Read more in our articles including "Rise of the Dragon: The UNISOC Story" and "BIR opens Tax Payer Portal".