About Apex Semiconductors (USA) Company Limited

APEX Semiconductors (USA) Co. Ltd., located at Sanford, NC, near the Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, is a spin-off of Static Control Components, Inc. (SCC). We have a number of engineers with advanced engineering degrees from prestigious colleges and universities from around the United States. The Research Triangle Park located in Raleigh area is the largest research park in the United States and is named for the three outer cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. There are three major research universities in those cities, North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The park is home to more than 300 companies employing over 55,000 workers with an additional 10,000 contractors. This area is a great resource for technical knowledge and talent for the R&D Team.

The APEX Semiconductors (USA) R&D Team was started in 2001 as the R&D team of Static Control Components (SCC) and provided the world with the first imaging aftermarket chip. The R&D Team’s first-to-market, quality products were the foundation that made SCC the leader in the chip aftermarket industry. While we were a part of the SCC R&D Team, we were granted many patents and awards for our innovative and industry-leading achievements and was recognized multiple times by the imaging industry for designing chips that are the most resistant to OEM firmware upgrades while not infringing patents. The R&D team has continued to add notable achievements throughout the company’s history of providing advanced, highly encrypted replacement chips. SCC’s key products include replacement Lexmark T650 chips and replacement HP ink jet chips. These innovations support the aftermarket by providing continuity of component supply along with new opportunities for growth.

When Ninestar acquired SCC in 2015, it created a multi-national R&D group of industry leaders. This also created a new dynamic that allowed around the clock engineering work and investigations. The joint R&D teams has been recognized by the company’s leaders for their close collaboration and successful project completions. After a corporate reorganization in 2020, SCC’s R&D Department is now APEX Semiconductors (USA) Co. Ltd., which is the US group in this multi-national R&D group and its main business is the continued research and development of microcontroller unit (MCU), System-on-chip (SoC) and printer aftermarket chips.