Since its establishment in June 2019, the Science and Technology Innovation Board (STB) has passed its first anniversary. Over the past year, the board has been moving forward in innovation and has delivered an eye-catching report card. Zhangjiang, as a cluster of hard science and technology industries in China, has 11 companies successfully listed and 28 companies are in the process of sprinting.
Sci-Tech Board positioning "hard science and technology", since its inception, attracted a lot of integrated circuit board companies to join, can be said to be "star gathering". Open the science and innovation board Zhangjiang "core" map, we see the hardcore power of Zhangjiang, Juchen was founded in 2009 in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, is a global chip design high-tech enterprises, specializing in high-performance, high-quality integrated circuit products, research and development, design and sales, and provide application solutions and technical support services. technical support services. on December 23, 2019 to land on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Board.
Yuan Chongwei, Deputy General Manager and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Juchen, said that the company now has three main product lines, namely EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), Voice Coil Motor Driver Chip and Smart Card Chip, and the products are widely used in smartphones, LCD panels, Bluetooth modules, communications, computers and peripherals, medical instruments, white goods, automotive electronics, industrial control and many other
Annual output of 2.2 billion chips, with a failure rate of only 0.26 DPPM
What are the application scenarios for EEPROM? Yuan Chongwei introduced, EEPROM memory chip is by correcting the parameters, so that the lens imaging effect is better. At present, the cell phone camera from dual camera to triple camera, the demand for EEPROM is also increasing. As smart phones become more and more high-end, the requirements for cell phone cameras will become higher and higher. In addition, the company and the customer commitment to the product are industrial grade, industrial grade is to give customers the promise of a product suitable for working temperature range of -40 degrees to 85 degrees of high temperature. Within this temperature range, to ensure that the product should work reliably.
"Our company is a model without a factory, we are in this segment mainly do research and development, sales, and follow-up technical support services." In Yuan Chongwei's view, the company has four core competencies.
Yuan Chongwei said, first, excellent R & D capabilities and deep technical accumulation, the company since its inception, has been focusing on the field of integrated circuit design, has accumulated a strong technical and R & D advantages, so that the company has been able to consolidate the market position of the field such as EEPROM at the same time to the NOR Flash, microtronic motor drive chip and other new product areas for expansion. Secondly, it is the high-quality end-customer resources all over the world. With the leading R&D capability, reliable product quality and excellent customer service level, the company has accumulated good brand recognition and high-quality customer resources at home and abroad. Third, rich experience in industry chain synergy and perfect quality management system. after years of development, we have established long-term and stable cooperative relationships with SMIC and others, and accumulated rich experience in capacity supply chain management. in FY2019, the Company has realized the supply chain capability of producing nearly 2.2 billion chips per year in a stable manner, and the failure rate of the products at the client side is 0.26 DPPM (defective products per million defective chances ), which is far lower than the industry's requirement of 100 DPPM failure rate for commercial-grade electronic component applications, and has established a good quality reputation at the client side. Fourthly, professional technical talents and experienced management team, R&D personnel have more than 8 years of professional experience on average. The company's core management team covers all aspects of business management, technology development, marketing, production operations, quality control, financial management.
Smart card chip applications will be more diversified
What is the future development trend of the EEPROM industry? Yuan Chongwei believes that as smart phones enter the era of inventory, the major cell phone manufacturers are actively looking for new cell phone performance in order to seek differentiated competitive advantage, due to the camera function upgrade and imaging quality optimization can bring users a very intuitive and obvious experience enhancement, the camera technology innovation has become the focus of the major cell phone manufacturers to carry out the differentiation of the competition. Around the goal of optimizing the photographic experience, smartphone cameras have experienced a variety of technological innovations such as pixel upgrades, optical stabilization, large aperture, telephoto lenses, optical zoom, front/rear dual cameras, triple cameras, etc. The upgrading of module functions and the number of upgrades have also led to the demand for lens parameter storage, which has further boosted the proportion of the application and demand of EEPROM and voice-coil motor driver chips in the camera modules. Demand for EEPROM and voice coil motor driver chips in camera modules is rapidly increasing. In addition, the launch of 5G cell phone is expected to promote the smartphone market ushered in a new "wave of replacement", driven by smartphone shipments warmed up, will bring stable growth for the EEPROM and voice coil motor driver chip market market space.
The "13th Five-Year Plan" for National Informatization clearly states that we should promote the application of healthcare-related technologies and products such as artificial intelligence, biological 3D printing, medical robotics, wearable devices, and related micro-sensors, etc. in disease prevention, health emergencies, healthcare, and daily care; and to promote the integration of high-precision chips, terminal manufacturing, and location-based service industries.
With the domestic smart card chip independent research and development level of progress and national development planning support, the future smart card chip applications will be more diversified. In the face of the future, Yuan Chongwei said, the first company will be the existing EEPROM smart card chip, voice coil motor drive chip product line technology upgrades and product line improvement, to provide customers with higher reliability, better performance, lower power consumption, more cost-effective new generation of products. Second, the company will increase investment in new product lines, based on years of experience in production and design, develop new product lines of generator driver chips, and continue to explore opportunities in other product lines to form new profit growth points. Third, the company will continue to increase investment in research and development, to attract new talent, to grow the R & D team, to enhance the R & D strength.
(Editor: Dong Zhiwen, Han Qing)