In 2021, Xiaomi invested in many companies in the semiconductor field, covering semiconductor equipment, packaging and testing, MEMS sensors, electronic components, analog chips, etc. Overall, Xiaomi's investment layout is still very extensive.
This article lists the semiconductor companies invested by Xiaomi's Hubei Xiaomi Yangtze River Industry Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) (hereinafter referred to as Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund) for readers' reference:
Table created based on Qichacha information
Semiconductor equipment manufacturers
On February 1, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Hangzhou Accelerator Technology. Accelerator Technology is based on FPGA design, high-speed communication technology, high-performance digital signal processing technology, and high-precision analog technology. It applies related technologies to the field of semiconductor testing and is an industry-leading digital mixed signal test equipment provider. Using multidisciplinary cross-disciplinary technology, Accelerator Technology launched the first domestically developed high-performance digital mixed signal test equipment with a speed of 250Mbps and above.
On March 18, 2021, the Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Suzhou Keyun Laser, a manufacturer of special equipment. The company is in the laser processing equipment manufacturing industry, mainly producing laser precision repair equipment, laser precision cutting equipment, semiconductor laser equipment, and PCB laser equipment. The company's future goal is to become an internationally leading high-end equipment provider for the three major industries of new display, semiconductors, and PCB. At present, Suzhou Keyun Laser has achieved full coverage of major domestic display panel factories.
On June 16, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Suzhou Radium Laser. The company was founded in 2012 and is in the field of laser cutting equipment in the semiconductor packaging and testing field. Its target customers are packaging and testing plants and grinding and marking foundries. It mainly provides wafer laser slotting machines, wafer laser invisible cutting machines, wafer marking machines, etc. for semiconductor packaging and other manufacturing. Radium Laser is one of the few companies that has both laser slotting and laser invisible cutting core technologies, providing a complete set of fully localized solutions for wafer cutting in China's packaging and testing field.
On March 1, 2021, Changjiang Xiaomi Industry Fund participated in the C round of financing of Jingyan Intelligent; on May 11, 2021, Changjiang Xiaomi Industry Fund provided strategic financing to it. Founded in May 2009, Jingyan Intelligent is an integrated circuit intelligent test equipment developer dedicated to the field of semiconductor back-end packaging and automatic test equipment. Its products include wafer selection and placement equipment, fully automatic finished product testing and sorting equipment, etc., which are widely used in the manufacturing, testing and sorting of packaged integrated circuit products.
On October 15, 2021, the Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in the packaging and testing company Xinde Semiconductor. Xinde Semiconductor mainly focuses on mobile products and provides customers with turnkey high-tech mid- and back-end packaging and testing services. The company is committed to becoming a high-tech packaging and testing center for the research and development and manufacturing of Bumping, WLCSP, Flip Chip PKG, QFN, BGA, SIP, SIP-LGA, BGA, FOWLP, 2.5D/3D, and Chiplet PKG.
On November 17, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Ningbo Tairuisi Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Tairuisi was established in 2012 and has long been focusing on integrated circuit packaging and testing business. It has the mass production capabilities of mainstream packaging forms such as QFN, DFN, SOP, SOT, etc., and its downstream customers cover many fields such as mobile communications, Internet of Things, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence, big data, electric vehicles, etc.
On February 26, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Si Rui Technology. Si Rui Technology was established in September 2012. It is a high-tech enterprise incubated from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It mainly produces MEMS smart sensor business. At present, the cumulative sales of chips have reached 100 million. Si Rui Technology's sensor chips independently developed based on Hua Hong Hongli's advanced 8-inch CMOS-MEMS process platform have realized China's creation and manufacturing.
On April 14, 2021, Changjiang Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Huajing Sensing. The company focuses on the research and development of MEMS sensor chips, modules and components. Its products mainly include silicon microphone series (Huajing Technology brand) and pressure sensor series (Huajing Sensing brand). The silicon microphone products have excellent performance and have been supplied to several well-known domestic companies. The pressure sensor series products include chips and modules, as well as various automotive pressure sensor components, etc. The automotive sensor component products have entered well-known domestic electric vehicle brands.
On May 18, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Suzhou Minghao Sensing. Minghao Sensing was jointly invested and established by well-known management and technical teams at home and abroad and Suzhou Gotech Electronics. Minghao Sensing is mainly engaged in the research and development of MEMS sensors, and its main products are acceleration sensors, gyroscopes, pressure sensors and magnetic sensors. The company has also independently developed three-dimensional MEMS-CMOS integrated micro-electromechanical process platform technology.
On January 19, 2021, the Yangtze River Xiaomi Industrial Fund invested in Guangdong Weirong Electronics. Weirong Electronics mainly produces passive electronic components MLCC, focusing on high-end MLCC. Its planned Luoding Weirong Technology Park plans to achieve an annual MLCC production capacity of 1.5 trillion pieces around 2028, becoming one of the top three manufacturers in the industry. As of 2021, 2 billion yuan has been invested, and the monthly MLCC production capacity exceeds 30 billion pieces. Among them, the high-capacity series has broken through to 47μF capacity, and continues to expand higher capacities such as 100μF and specifications of different sizes and voltages. The RF series and 01005 and 0201 ultra-micro series have become the main manufacturers in the industry. The construction of the automotive-grade MLCC system and product platform has been completed, and the development and mass production of AEC-Q200 standard 0603, 0402, and 0201 series products have been realized.
On February 18, 2021, Changjiang Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Jiangsu Changjing Technology. The company was formerly the discrete device department of Jiangsu Changdian Co., Ltd., mainly engaged in the research and development, design and sales of diodes, transistors, MOSFETs, LDOs, DC-DCs, frequency devices, power devices and other products. It has more than 15,000 product series and models, and its products are widely used in various consumer and industrial electronics fields.
On August 13, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Weizhao Semiconductor. The company is mainly engaged in the design of discrete device series and the research and development of semiconductor microelectronics related products. It has become one of the few advanced IC design companies that have all series of low-voltage, medium-voltage, and high-voltage high-power POWER MOSFET discrete devices, as well as special semiconductor process design capabilities.
On January 9, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Tianyi Hexin. The company is committed to the design and development of analog/digital/hybrid/RF integrated circuits, the design and development of system-on-chip SOC, and the design products and services cover high-performance analog front-end, high-performance sensors, high-performance power management, RF transceivers, phase-locked loops, software-defined radios, etc. At present, the company has developed a number of analog chips, not only successfully entering the medical military drone and other industry markets, but also becoming the first in the domestic wristband heart rate chip market, with shipments exceeding 2kk/month.
On August 2, 2021, the Yangtze Xiaomi Industrial Fund invested in Wuxi Hanxin Microelectronics. Hanxin Microelectronics is a leading domestic provider of high-reliability, high-performance, and high-quality IC chips and solutions, and has accumulated rich experience in R&D and industrialization of digital-analog hybrid ICs, power ICs and other products. On October 8, 2021, the Wuxi Institute of Applied Technology of Tsinghua University and Hanxin Microelectronics conducted in-depth exchanges on AC-DC chip technology R&D and industrial cooperation, and signed an industry-university-research cooperation agreement. Hanxin Microelectronics has R&D and product planning in the fields of online linear products, PD fast charging, and third-generation semiconductors. Hanxin Microelectronics is also a chip provider for many well-known domestic terminal companies such as Huawei, Xiaomi, and ZMI.
On January 5, 2021, Changjiang Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Jingshi Intelligence. Jingshi Intelligence is a chip design company focusing on the research and development of video surveillance and edge computing technology. It has independently developed AI TPU computing core and SoC chip integration technology. The current research and development areas cover SoC chip design, AI TPU processor and tool chain, image processing algorithm and design, etc. Its artificial intelligence vision chip is mainly used for professional security monitoring, civilian consumer security and intelligent vehicle vision.
On August 31, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industrial Fund invested in Yutai Microelectronics Co., Ltd. ("Yutai Microelectronics" for short). The company focuses on the research and development and industrial development of high-speed wired network communication chips. Since its establishment, Yutai Microelectronics has successively launched industrial-grade, consumer-grade, automotive-grade, and multi-port PHY series products in just four years, covering consumer, data communications, automotive, security and industrial application scenarios. The company's products have now passed the automotive-grade certification for automotive Ethernet physical layer chips. At present, Yutai Microelectronics has achieved a monthly production capacity supply target of 10 million pieces.
On September 22, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industry Fund participated in the strategic round and C round of financing of Heizhima Intelligent. Heizhima mainly focuses on the three major fields of artificial intelligence, automotive-grade chips and autonomous driving, and has successively released a number of chips such as Huashan No. 1 A500, Huashan No. 2 A1000, and Huashan No. 2 A1000 Pro. In the China Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industry Innovation Alliance, Heizhima Intelligent Technology is a core member and undertakes the research and development of core IP, chips and some solutions.
On December 31, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Suzhou Yuntu Semiconductor. Yuntu was founded in July 2020 and is a fabless semiconductor and integrated circuit design company focusing on automotive-grade chips. Yuntu has established its own integrated circuit design and verification platform, formulated development processes and specifications, and successfully developed a number of chips with independent intellectual property rights and applied for a number of related patents.
On October 19, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Shanghai Aisino Hangxin Electronics. Founded in January 2008, Hangxin Electronics is a leading local company in security control chips. Its main products include UESKEY chips, IoT security chips, large-capacity storage chips, smart card chips, self-developed automotive-grade chips and MCU chips, which can provide a full range of solutions from chips to applications.
On November 2, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industrial Fund invested in Shanghai Zhanxin Electronics. The company is a high-tech chip company focusing on the field of silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors. It uses a virtual IDM model to complete wafer manufacturing, chip packaging, module packaging, performance testing and reliability testing with domestic first-line semiconductor industry partners. Zhanxin Electronics mainly provides power conversion solutions with SiC power devices, SiC driver chips and SiC modules as the core. Its products are suitable for wind power inverters, photovoltaic inverters, industrial power supplies, new energy vehicles, motor drives, charging piles and other fields.
Semiconductor manufacturing companies
On November 30, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Jetta Semiconductor. Jetta Semiconductor was established in 2017 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huada Semiconductor. Jetta Semiconductor is a specialty process integrated circuit chip manufacturer, focusing on the research and development and manufacturing of specialty production processes required for analog circuits and power devices. The chips produced, such as BCD, IGBT/FRD, SGT/MOSFET, TVS, SiC devices, etc., are widely used in automotive electronics, industrial control, power management, smart terminals, and even high-end application markets such as rail transportation and smart grids.
On September 23, 2021, Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Lice Technology. Lice Technology is a developer of consumer-grade LiDARs, and its R&D team consists of PhDs from optoelectronics, information and computer science. The company's products mainly include mechanical single-line LiDARs and long-range OPA solid-state LiDARs.
On September 8, 2021, Changjiang Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Lingsheng Technology. The company is mainly engaged in the research and development of smart IoT, mobile communication mobile phone chips and their derivatives, focusing on the design and sales of cellular communication and smart IoT SoC chip products developed with Qualcomm core technology support. Currently, the first self-developed AIoT chip JA310 has been launched, and the mobile phone 4G SoC chip has been taped out in the first half of the year.
On December 3, 2021, the Yangtze River Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in FPGA manufacturer Jingwei Qili. Jingwei Qili is one of the earliest companies outside the United States to enter independent research and development, large-scale production, and mass sales of general-purpose FPGA chips and new-generation heterogeneous programmable computing chips. Its products integrate FPGA with multiple heterogeneous units such as CPU, MCU, Memory, ASIC, AI, etc. on the same chip, realizing the characteristics of programmability, self-reconfiguration, easy expansion, wide applicability, multi-integration, high reliability, strong computing power, and long cycle. The market served by the products will quickly exceed tens of billions, and the market size of the terminal modules and application solutions derived from them will reach hundreds of billions.
On May 10, 2021, Yangtze Xiaomi Industry Fund invested in Shenzhen Yunyinggu Technology. Yunyinggu Technology was established in May 2012, with the core business of display technology research and development, IP licensing, and the production and sales of display driver chips/circuit boards. Yunyinggu has carried out project cooperation with the world's seven major screen manufacturers and five major driver chip companies, and its IP technology solutions have been successfully commercialized on a large scale in many types of products.
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