Company at a glance
Scale
Revenue up 37% since FY2023
Growth prospects
Expanding customer base and product roadmap
FY2025 revenue approximately 28.85 billion CNY (reported +12.14% YoY); TTM revenue about 28.80 billion CNY ending Mar 31, 2026Official filings: static.sse.com.cn ↗
All sourced facts (11)
- Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Employees: Approximately 6,160 employees
- Revenue / scale: FY2025 revenue approximately 28.85 billion CNY (reported +12.14% YoY); TTM revenue about 28.80 billion CNY ending Mar 31, 2026
- Market cap / valuation: Reportedly about 120.6 billion CNY market capitalization
- Listing status: Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Main Board · 603501 · A-shares
- Listing: Shanghai Stock Exchange ticker 603501; also has GDR/H-share listing context after overseas capital-market activity.
- Founding and HQ: Founded May 15, 2007 and headquartered in Shanghai.
- Rebrand: Will Semiconductor rebranded as OmniVision Group in May 2025.
- Capital-market signal: Raised about US$445M through a SIX Swiss GDR offering in 2023; Hong Kong secondary listing occurred January 12, 2026.
- Scale marker: OmniVision/Will is commonly described as the world's #3 CMOS image-sensor supplier behind Sony and Samsung; reported employee count was 4,800 in 2023.
- Sanctions / export controls: U.S. BIS Entity List / advanced-computing and semiconductor-manufacturing rules: not found in reviewed sources.
About
Fabless semiconductor group that designs and sells CMOS image sensors (CIS) and related silicon through the OmniVision brand/subsidiary, plus analog/discrete/power ICs and display/touch components; manufacturing is outsourced to foundries and OSATs. Exact parent/subsidiary structure, revenue mix, and distribution business require verification from primary filings.
Shanghai · Ticker 603501
Why it matters
Image sensors are one of the few semiconductor categories where a China-controlled company has a real global position. Will/OmniVision is therefore a stronger signal than a generic fabless count: it shows where China has meaningful product share, automotive exposure, and overseas customer history.
Where it sits in the stack
Key semiconductor products
- CameraCubeChip wafer-level camera modulesWafer-level packaged camera modules integrating optics and sensor
- Power management solutionsPower management ICs in OmniVision portfolio
- Wafer-level packaging / CameraCubeChip — statuscommercial. Differentiating miniaturization pathway for camera modules; ties the group to wafer-level packaging supply chain
- LCOS microdisplay design — statuscommercial. Relevant for AR/VR/projection display competition
- CMOS image sensors
- Analog/mixed-signal ICs
- Touch/display ICs
- ASICs
- LCOS
- OVMed medical imaging
Financials
603501.SS · Shanghai 603501 (renamed OmniVision Group) · via Yahoo Finance ↗
Financial trajectory via annual filings via Yahoo Finance
RMB billionsMarket data refreshed daily; annual figures from exchange filings. Figures in the reporting currency shown on the chart.
Ecosystem
Ecosystem links
- OmniVision (豪威科技)
- Sibico (思比科)
Competitors
- Sony Semiconductor Solutions
Customers / end markets
- End-market exposure captured in the pilot: Automotive, Mobile devices, Medical imaging, Machine vision, Security/surveillance
Global peer set
- Sony and Samsung are the high-end global CIS benchmarks
- onsemi and STMicroelectronics matter for automotive image sensing
- GalaxyCore and SmartSens are China peer references for mobile/security image sensors
Affiliates
- OmniVision (豪威科技)
- Sibico (思比科)
Competitive position
- China position: Leading in CMOS image sensors; stronger in CIS than in the broader logic-chip stack.
- Global reference companies: Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Samsung System LSI, onsemi, STMicroelectronics, GalaxyCore, SmartSens, and Himax/Novatek for adjacent display-touch categories.
- Strength metric: automotive CIS qualifications, mobile-camera design wins, security-camera share, and sensor resolution/performance tiers are more useful than broad fabless revenue alone.
- OmniVision is a top-tier global CIS supplier with broad product portfolio; frontier gap relative to Sony in premium mobile CIS.
- Fabless dependence on external foundry capacity for advanced CIS nodes.
- Global comparables: Sony and Samsung are the high-end global CIS benchmarks.
- Global comparables: onsemi and STMicroelectronics matter for automotive image sensing.
- Global comparables: GalaxyCore and SmartSens are China peer references for mobile/security image sensors.
Milestones and signals
- 2026-10-04—Market cap: RMB 103B
- FY2025—Revenue: RMB 28.9B
- FY2025—Net Profit: RMB 4.0B
- Listing—Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Main Board · 603501 · A-shares
What to watch
- CIS segment revenue and its share of group revenue in filings.
- Named foundry partners and node mapping in supply-chain disclosures.
- Top-five customer concentration reported in the annual report.
- Design wins by product family and end market in OmniVision announcements.
- Export-control status, including any Entity List or UVL designations.
Questions
Last reviewed 2026-07-01Answered questions
What share of revenue comes from CIS versus analog/discrete and touch/display products?
Against Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Sony and Samsung are the high-end global CIS benchmarks, onsemi and STMicroelectronics matter for automotive image sensing, and GalaxyCore and SmartSens are China peer references for mobile/security image sensors: OmniVision is a top-tier global CIS supplier with broad product portfolio; frontier gap relative to Sony in premium mobile CIS.
Open questions
- How should the brand layering of Will Semiconductor, OmniVision Group, and OmniVision Technologies be presented?
- Which automotive, mobile, and security customers are public design wins?