Key Milestone

Year	Month	Content
2010	12	Company establishment
	12	Obtained the license to use Toshiba Microelectronics' 8-bit microcontroller core
2011	12	The first self-owned brand GPIO microcontroller was mass-produced
2012	3	The first self-owned ADC microcontroller was mass-produced
	7	iMQ Technology officially registered in Hsinchu Science Park
	12	Signed contract with Toshiba for product development
2013	1	Headquarters moved to Si-Soft Research Center located in Hsinchu Science Park
	9	Passed ISO 9001 quality certification
2014	1	Signed contract with Toshiba for ODM product mass-production
	8	The first Toshiba ODM microcontroller product entered mass-production
	10	Released a press release with Hua Hong Semiconductor to jointly enter the Chinese white goods and smart meter markets
	11	Expanded business microcontroller items to 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit general-purpose/special-purpose microcontrollers
2015	5	The first self-owned brand Flash microcontroller was put into mass-production
	8	MQ-Link development tool adopted by Toshiba and officially shipped
2016	12	Completed self-development of 16-bit microcontroller core 870E
2018	9	Flash Writer was adopted by Toshiba Q series MCU customers
2019	1	Obtained a US patent (Certificate No.: US 10,186,327 B1) for secure encryption technology
	5	Obtained a patent from the Republic of China (Certificate No.: I658698) for secure encryption technology
	7	Established a subsidiary in mainland China: iMQ Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2020	8	The first security encryption chip SQ7101 was delivered to customers for sampling