Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market. Spreadtrum combines its semiconductor design expertise with software development capabilities to deliver highly integrated baseband processors with robust multimedia functionality and power management. Spreadtrum has developed solutions based on an open development platform, enabling its customers to develop customized wireless solutions that are feature-rich, while meeting their cost and time-to-market requirements, for a variety of markets. In addition, Spreadtrum also develops AVS audio/video decoder chip solutions for the broadcast television market.

Spreadtrum was founded in April 2001, with R&D centers and branch offices both in the U.S. (San Diego) and in China (Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen)and with a representative office in Korea.