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Yifa Semiconductor is one of the broadest manufacturers in the semiconductor product line in the industry, ranging from discrete diodes and transistors to complex System on Chip (SoC) devices, to complete platform solutions including reference designs, application software, manufacturing tools, and specifications. Its main product types are over 3000. Yifa Semiconductor is a major supplier in various industrial fields, possessing a variety of advanced technologies, intellectual property (IP) resources, and world-class manufacturing processes.

Semiconductor products can generally be divided into two categories: specialized products and standard products. Specialized products integrate a large number of proprietary IPs from semiconductor manufacturers, users, and third parties, which differentiate them from other products in the market, such as:

System on Chip (SoC) products, customized and semi customized circuits, dedicated standard products (ASSP), such as wireless application processors, set-top box chips, and automotive ICs, microcontrollers, smart card ICs, dedicated memory, dedicated discrete devices (ASD) ™)。 Once a customer uses a specialized product in their application, product replacement is usually not possible without modifying the hardware and software design.

On the contrary, standard products are devices that implement a specific commonly used function, typically provided by several suppliers. Usually, standard products launched by manufacturers can be replaced by similar products from other manufacturers, and the differences between suppliers mainly lie in cost and customer service. However, once the application design is frozen, standard devices will also become the only device in terms of performance optimization.

Standard products include:

Discrete devices such as transistors, diodes, and thyristors, power transistors such as MOSFETs, Bipolars, and IGBTs, analog circuit building modules such as operational amplifiers, comparators, regulators, and voltage reference circuits, standard logic functions and interfaces, numerous memory products such as standard or serial NOR flash memory, NAND flash memory, EPROM/EEPROM, and non-volatile RAM, RF discrete devices and ICs.

Since its establishment, Yifa Semiconductor has successfully achieved a balance in market development, combining differentiated specialized products (which are usually less susceptible to market cycles) with traditional standard products (which require less research and development investment and production capital intensity). The diversified product series of Italian semiconductor avoids excessive reliance on general or specialized products.