The global shortage of chips continues, in addition to the smartphone industry, consumer electronics, new energy automotive industry has also been greatly affected. Many people may not know that TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators, and other household appliances require chips, and a smartphone may require more than 100 chips, Take the Redmi Note10 Pro for example, which has 114 chips inside this tiny phone.
So the global shortage of chips has affected the development of many domestic enterprises, and we have been in a weak position in the field of chips. China is a chip importing country, the source of the chip are dependent on the U.S. G. It is because of this technological gap, so that the domestic enterprises have suffered a card neck crisis.
So, in addition to Huawei, many domestic enterprises have begun to layout the semiconductor field, Gree is one of them. When Dong Mingzhu announced in 2018 that he would enter the semiconductor field, many netizens were watching the show, thinking that Gree could not make it in the semiconductor field, but Dong Mingzhu said that he would do it, and now he can already deliver a report card.
Just recently, Gree also brought good news, Gree's self-developed chip has now begun mass production, and the annual output of Gree's chip will also exceed 10 million. Such news is indeed very unexpected and surprising.
Gree founded Zero Boundary Integrated Circuit Co. 3 years ago, the company's registered capital reached 1 billion yuan, and the company is mainly research industrial-grade 32-bit MCUs and AloT SoC design and development, which can be used in consumer electronics, health care, and intelligent robotics and other fields. Today, the company has applied for 195 patents, which is quite impressive.
MCU is equivalent to a computer host to be integrated into a small chip, so MCU can also be understood as a micro-computer. This chip is mainly used in household appliances, such as life in the common air conditioning, television sets, etc., all need MCU chip.
Gree has been mass-produced and began to put into use the chip is self-developed MCU chip, Gree's many household appliances have begun to use self-developed MCU chip. In fact, China's MCU chip market is also blank, the world's top eight MCU companies occupy nearly 90% of the global market share, and unfortunately, none of the Chinese companies on the list, so Gree's success in self-developed MCU chips, but also to help the Chinese enterprises to make up for the vacancies in the MCU chip market.
Dong Mingzhu once said, even if it costs $50 billion, Gree will have to put the chip self-research in the end. Now it seems that Gree really did it, Dong Mingzhu really did it. The reason why Dong Mingzhu is so determined to chip self-research, in my opinion there are two reasons:
First, Dong Mingzhu has realized the importance of mastering the core technology. Although Gree is only an electrical company, but household appliances also need to use the chip, in addition to Huawei and other cell phone manufacturers need to use the chip, Gree also needs the chip.
But after seeing a lot of domestic enterprises because of the chip by the U.S. neck encounter, Dong Mingzhu also understands that, without their own technology, it is impossible to get rid of the potential crisis of being necked, there is not enough security. Only have their own technology, so that Gree's products 100% localization, then you can have autonomy and the right to speak.
Second: Gree has to have a good MCU chip to ensure the quality of the output. To ensure the quality of the product and reduce costs, self-development is the only way out.
In summary, if domestic enterprises have the same with Gree to think of danger, then the domestic technology will have a better future, self-research is the only way out, this is the domestic enterprises need to understand the point. What do you think about this? Welcome to comment on the message!