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HiSilicon

Logo: HiSilicon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Chinese fabless semiconductor manufacturing company, fully owned by Huawei

HiSilicon (Chinese: 海思; pinyin: Hǎisī) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A53, ARM Cortex-A57 and also for their Mali graphics cores. HiSilicon has also purchased licenses from Vivante Corporation for their GC4000 graphics core.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2004Founded1
  • Industryelectronics industry1
  • HeadquartersShanghai1
  • Websitewww.hisilicon.com
  • Legal formprivately held company1

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HiSilicon (Chinese: 海思; pinyin: Hǎisī) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A53, ARM Cortex-A57 and also for their Mali graphics cores. HiSilicon has also purchased licenses from Vivante Corporation for their GC4000 graphics core.2

Corporate structure

HiSilicon is part of a group headed by Huawei. 15 entities, 9 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

HiSilicon was Huawei's ASIC design center, which was founded in 1991.

2004– Shenzhen HiSilicon Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was registered and the company was formally established.

2016– HiSilicon's Kirin 960 chipset was rated one of the "best of Android 2016" in performance by Android Authority.

2019– Shanghai HiSilicon, a wholly owned subsidiary of Huawei, was established.

2025– First HiSilicon 7nm N+2 Kirin X90 series PC class in-house ARM-powered chips launched for MateBook Pro, MateBook Fold and MatePad Edge HarmonyOS powered computers following Intel and Qualcomm chip May 2024 bans.

2026–HiSilicon's first in-house CMOS camera series, CS520V200 50 megapixel camera with 4K 50FPS and 1080p 120FPS support with Hi3519DV500 4K30 AI ISP camera chip.

From Wikipedia’s article on HiSilicon, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • system on a chip

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Subsidiaries and ownership

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Owners

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Timeline

  1. 2004Founded Founded1

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