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ORGANIZATION AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES

1  ORGANIZATION AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES

 

Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. ("Actions Semiconductor Cayman Islands" or "the Company") is a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on July 27, 2005.

 

Actions Semiconductor Cayman Islands and its subsidiaries (the "Group") are principally engaged in the design and development of System-on-a-chip ("SoC") products and total solutions for the development and manufacture of portable media players ("PMPs"), tablets, OTT boxes and the provision of testing solutions.  The Group's total solutions include SoCs, solution development kits and detailed specifications of other required components and the providers' information of those components.  The Group's total solutions enable its customers to quickly introduce new PMPs, which play multimedia files by compressing to a fraction of their size using any one of a number of audio and video compression technologies, tablet and OTT boxes which equip consumers with the capability of browsing the internet respectively into the mainstream market worldwide.

 

At December 31, 2015 and 2014, the subsidiaries of the Company include the following:

 

Name of Company  

Place and date of

incorporation/establishment

 

Attributable equity

interest held

    Principal activities
             
Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  ("Actions Semiconductor Mauritius")  

Republic of Mauritius ("Mauritius")

 November 16, 2001

  100%   Investment holding
             
 Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  ("Actions Semiconductor Zhuhai")  

PRC

December 28, 2001

  100%   Design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip products
             

 

Actions (Zhuhai) Microelectronics Co., Ltd. ("Actions Microelectronics Zhuhai")

 

PRC

June 5, 2014

  100%   Design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip products
             
Actions (Zhuhai) Technology Co., Ltd.  ("Actions Technology Zhuhai")  

PRC

June 5, 2014

  100%   Design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip products
             
Shanghai Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  ("Actions Semiconductor Shanghai ")  

PRC

March 27, 2008

  100%   Design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip products
             
Actions Technology (HK) Company Limited ("Actions Hong Kong")  

Hong Kong

January 13, 1999

  100%   Trading of system-on-a-chip products
             
Actions Microelectronics Co., Ltd. ("Actions Microelectronics Hong Kong")  

Hong Kong

August 17, 2007

  100%   Trading of system-on-a-chip products and investment holding
             
Artek Microelectronics (HK) Co., Limited ("Artek Microelectronics Hong Kong")  

Hong Kong

January 16, 2006

  100%   Trading of system-on-a-chip products and investment holding
             
Artek Microelectronics Co., Ltd.  ("Artek Microelectronics Shenzhen")  

PRC

March 14, 2006

  100%   Design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip products
             
Actions Capital Investment Inc. ("Actions Capital BVI")  

British Virgin Islands

February 10, 2006

  100%   Investment holding
             
Actions Capital Investment (Malaysia) Inc. Co., Ltd. ("Actions Malaysia ") (Note)  

Republic of Malaysia

January 13, 2009

  100%  

Inactive

             
             
Actions Development (HK) Co., Ltd                         

Hong Kong

January 6, 2015

  100%   Inactive

 

Mavrix Technology, Inc. (“Mavrix”)

 

Cayman Islands

June 20, 2006

  93.4%   Investment holding
             
Mavrix Technology (H.K.) Co., Limited  (“Mavrix HK”)  

Hong Kong

August 17, 2007

  93.4%   Manufacturing and trading of system-on-a-chip products
             
Shanghai Mavrix Electronics, Ltd. (“Mavrix Shanghai”)  

PRC

October 23, 2006

  93.4%   Design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip products

 

Note:  Actions Malaysia was dissolved on October 19, 2015.