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Magnachip Semiconductor Corp

A designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, Magnachip makes power-management chips used in communications, consumer, and industrial gear, and it long supplied display driver chips for smartphone and TV screens. The company was born in 2004 when the non-memory semiconductor division of Hynix Semiconductor (formerly Hyundai Electronics) was sold to a private equity firm, with roots reaching back to LG Semiconductor's 1979 start. Its name blends the Latin "magna" (great) with "chip," and it earned a reputation for "8-inch stubbornness" by keeping its specialty chips on 8-inch wafers while rivals moved to larger ones.