Members

SIMalliance is a non-profit industry association made up of the world leading SIM card manufacturers representing 9 of every 10 SIM cards sold in the World.

Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (Datang)

Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (Datang) is a company that provides IC designs and products, which covering smart cards, SOC telecommunication integrated circuits and dedicated telecommunication facility solution based on SOC integrated circuits.

As the largest domestic IC products provider in Chinese smart card market, Datang’s products are widely used in telecommunication industry, in which public IC phone card modules occupied about 50% market share, SIM/RUIM cards and 3G USIM cards occupied 17% market share in Chinese mainland market in year 2008. Datang has already exported the SIM/RUIM card products to more than 10 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Middle East. Datang’s dedicated contactless IC for Chinese Resident & Identification Card has gained about 25% market share. The dedicated social security IC, which launched by Datang, entered Chinese social security market in 2007 and got 30% market share in 2008. Banking IC will be the next product launched into market by Datang.

Datang is capable of IC designing, IC testing, wafer back grinding, die sawing, module packaging, smart card milling & implanting, smart card COS developing and downloading, as well as smart card personalization. Besides, Datang is capable of customizing client end application system to meet various requirements from customers. More than 20 provinces in mainland China have been adopting the OTA systems which were collectively researched and developed by China Mobile and Datang. The systems have been serving about 300 millions of subscribers. Removable RUIM card released by Datang was successfully adopted by China Unicom CDMA system. It highly inspired the development of CDMA VAS and it is also used in some other countries in the world. Datang pays much attention to patent protection and has already applied for 120 patents of which more than 95% are invention patents. Among the grants, one is honored  “Award For Outstanding Chinese Patented Invention” by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the State Intellectual Property Office, and another is awarded “Significant Technology Invention” by the Ministry of Information Industry.

Currently, Datang owns one million capacity of IC testing and module packaging per day, and 600K capacity of smart card milling & implanting, COS downloading and personalizing per day. Datang has grown up from IC design company to a total solution provider, with the capability of IC testing, wafer back grinding, die sawing, module packaging, COS developing and downloading, card milling & implanting, card personalizing and client end application system developing.

Our Philosophy is “Service makes success, innovation creates future” and being a world-class IC design & product company is our objective.


 Website: www.dmt.com.cn



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