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Founded by Yu Renrong on May 15, 2014.1
WillSemi was founded on 15 May 2007 by Yu Renrong. He previously worked at Inspur.
On 4 May 2017, WillSemi held its initial public offering becoming a listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Due to the lack of core technological competitiveness, WillSemi could only engage in the distribution business with low technological content. To improve its competitiveness, it has acquired various other semiconductor firms in the past decade.
On 5 June 2017 it planned to acquire OmniVision but its main shareholder Zhuhai Rongfeng objected to the plan as it saw Wingtech was also interested in acquiring OmniVision leading to the first M&A attempt failing. After some changes in OmniVision shareholders, WillSemi made another attempt to acquire OmniVision in May 2018 with the deal being successfully completed in May 2019. The acquisition meant WillSemi could now enter the CMOS Image sensor (CIS) technology market as well as have leverage OmniVision's technical expertise to improve its semiconductor design capabilities. The deal made WillSemi the world's third-largest supplier of CIS, behind Sony and Samsung Electronics.
In November 2023, WillSemi held a global depository receipt (GDR) offering on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Raising US$445 million, it was China's largest GDR offering since 2005.
In May 2025, WillSemi rebranded as OmniVision Group.
On 12 January 2026, OmniVision Group held a secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
From Wikipedia’s article on OmniVision Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4