Gaonchips
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Gaonchips designs custom chips, specifically application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which are semiconductors built to a particular customer's specification rather than sold as general-purpose parts.
It sits between chip designers (fabless companies) and chip factories (foundries), guiding a customer's chip from initial specification through physical design, wafer production oversight, packaging, and testing, a one-stop service. Listed on KOSDAQ, Korea's tech-focused stock exchange, the company is an official Design Solution Partner of Samsung Foundry and an Arm Approved Design Partner, and it is actively developing AI chips on advanced process nodes for data-centre and edge applications.
Summary is AI-generated and may contain errors · figures from DART filings
Gaonchips holds formal partner status with both Samsung Foundry and Arm, relationships explicitly named in its filing, giving it certified access to leading process technologies and chip-design infrastructure.
Gaonchips in five facts
What does Gaonchips do?
Gaonchips designs custom chips, specifically application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which are semiconductors built to a particular customer's specification rather than sold as general-purpose parts.
Where is Gaonchips listed and in which sector?
Gaonchips (Korean name: 가온칩스) trades under KRX code 399720 on KOSDAQ, the Korea Exchange's board for smaller and growth companies. It is classified in the Information Technology sector, Semiconductors.
How large is Gaonchips?
Its market capitalisation was US$333.9M on 2026-10-21, which puts it in this site's small-cap group. US$ amounts are converted from won at 1 USD ≈ ₩1,325 (2026-10-21).
What were Gaonchips's latest annual revenue and operating profit?
For fiscal year 2025, Gaonchips reported revenue of US$51.7M, an operating loss of US$12.6M and a net loss of US$10.8M, per its annual report on DART (data retrieved from DART on 2026-06-04). Revenue was down 29.0% on the previous year.
Where does this data come from?
Financial statements and filings come from DART, Korea's official corporate-filing system. Share prices, market capitalisation and trading status come from KRX. Company summaries are AI-generated from the filings and may contain errors; financial figures are mapped directly from DART.
Data sources and last updated
- Filings and financial statements
- DART (dart.fss.or.kr), Korea's official corporate-filing system
- Prices, market cap, trading status
- KRX (Korea Exchange), via FinanceDataReader
- Latest annual financials
- Fiscal year 2025, data retrieved from DART on 2026-06-04
- Share price and market cap
- Close of 2026-10-21
- Currency
- US$, converted from won at 1 USD ≈ ₩1,325 (2026-10-21 close)
- Company data updated
- 2026-10-21
- Company summary
- AI-generated from filings; may contain errors. Information only, not investment advice.
- Report on large shareholdings (5% rule) (standard)Oct 14
- Supply contract signedSupply contract · Oct 8
- Treasury share trust terminated: results reportOct 2
- Material event report (treasury share trust terminated)Oct 2
- [Amended] Supply contract signed
Gaonchips amended a previously disclosed US$13.1M ASIC design and development contract (18.53% of recent revenue) to extend the contract end date and disclosure deferral deadline from October 1, 2026 to October 1, 2027.
Supply contract · Oct 1 - Report on large shareholdings (5% rule) (abbreviated)Sep 29
- Report on large shareholdings (5% rule) (standard)Sep 14
- Material event report (treasury share trust agreement)Sep 3
- Supply contract signed
Gaonchips disclosed a supply contract, worth US$19.5M, about 43.22% of its recent annual revenue, running through Jun 2028.
Supply contract · Jun 11 - Change of 30% or more in revenue or profit/loss structure (15% for large companies)
Gaonchips reported consolidated results for FY2025: revenue of US$46.8M (−29% year on year), an operating loss of US$11.4M (from a profit a year earlier) and a net loss of US$9.85M (from a profit a year earlier).
Earnings · Feb 9