Established in 2002 at Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park of Pudong, Shanghai, Comlent is the 1st RFIC design house in China focusing on handset RFIC and mixed-signal SoC chipset solutions. Products of Comlent nowadays include RF transceivers in CMOS technology for mobile phones and portable digital mobile devices, etc.

Investors of Comlent include Intel Capital and leaders in semiconductor industry worldwide.

The core team members of Comlent are semiconductor professionals with years of RFIC R&D experience and management experience. The company has over 70 employees, 70% of which have master or Ph.D. degrees, 80% are engineers, and 57% are IC designers, 18% of which have oversea employment experience. As a result of company development in these years, Comlent has built a team with real industry mass production experience and high-end design experience in Greater China, which covers the whole design, production and application cycle for RFIC products.

Comlent launched China’s 1st RF transceiver (remarked “The first Radio Frequency Chip in China” by media and industry) at the end of 2004 and commenced its mass production in 2005. From the middle. of 2005, Comlent was designated to take a TD-SCDMA commercialization project, an ad hoc one supported by national funds. In Feb. 2007, Comlent released a technical paper to introduce its design on TD-SCDMA RF transceiver, the 1st CMOS TD-SCDMA RF transceiver in the world on International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the foremost forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and system-on-chip. This publication was unprecedented for Chinese to release a design on a whole RFIC on ISSCC during its 54-year history. Comlent CEO, Dr. Kai Chen was granted as “Annual Industry Innovators ” on 2006 Annual Economic Conference of China IT Industry, because “he has built an elite team that specializes on RFIC design as well as marketing and management by catching the golden opportunity of TD-SCDMA, Chinese 3G, which has outstanding contribution to China’s TD-SCDMA industry by breaking through in core RFIC technique that breaks the monopoly of foreign companies in this area for a long time”.

Comlent’s RF transceiver with zero-IF architecture has been successfully implemented by CMOS process. This process has also been used in Comlent’s other products.

Our mission is to provide advanced RFIC technology and products, with strong local support and close strategic partnership with our partners for China’s wireless communication market.