GSI (Gateway Silicon Inc.), a professional IC design service company founded in August 2006 at Hsin-chu Science Park, Taiwan. GSI focuses on research and development in analog/digital IP for consumer ICs, provides service in SOC implementation and IC turnkey realization. Through GSI's proprietary platform solutions, competitive wafer package and integrated turnkey service, customer is able to benefit the time to market and good quality IC products from conceptual design, system verification to mass production.

On October 30, 2006, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq:CHRT) (SGX-ST:CHARTERED), one of the world's top dedicated foundries, announced it is making a strategic investment in Gateway Silicon Inc. The two companies will collaborate on developing and optimizing design services while extending GSI's expertise to leverage Chartered's portfolio of value-added solutions (VAS). The VAS offering consists of plug-in modules based on Chartered's proven CMOS process technologies, on its cost-effective wafer fab production capacity. They provide customers with efficient and reliable solutions for quickly developing differentiated products in markets such as wireless, consumer and security/industrial.