List of Chinese automotive grade chip companies and comprehensive strength competition

At present, the entire automotive chip market has high requirements in terms of safety and reliability, such as AEC-Q testing and ASIL product certification, to achieve product functional safety for product development, production, process management/control, etc. However, most chips in the automotive market are monopolized by foreign manufacturers, such as Renesas, NXP, Infineon, Texas Instruments, Microchip, STMicroelectronics, etc. Our country is currently in a situation where domestic substitution is insufficient and the self-sufficiency rate is low, and we urgently need to accelerate breakthroughs.

According to the different application fields of semiconductors in automobiles, automobile chips can be divided into memory chips, power chips, analog chips, etc. by type. In this issue, we will share with you the layout of the domestic automotive-grade chip industry, driven by the accelerated process of domestic substitution.

New energy vehicles are the main source of incremental demand for power devices. Among them, the largest increases are mainly IGBT modules, SiC modules, MOSFET and GaN products. Among them, the newly added power devices are mainly used in power system components such as main drive inverters, on-board chargers (OBC), and DC-DC converters.

Silan Micro's electric vehicle main motor drive modules based on self-developed V-generation IGBT and FRD have begun mass supply to some customers. As of August 2022, the company has a monthly production capacity of 70,000 automotive-grade power modules;

Xinjie Energy’s 12-inch SGT-MOS platform products have successfully entered leading new energy vehicle companies;

In the first half of 2022, Star Semiconductor's automotive-grade IGBT modules will be installed in more than 500,000 new energy vehicles, including more than 200,000 Class A and above models. At the same time, automotive-grade SiC MOSFET modules used in passenger car main controllers have begun to expand. Batch loading application.

Computing and control chips are the "eyes" of smart cars, mainly microcontrollers and logic ICs, including main control chips and auxiliary chips. From the perspective of application scenarios, computing chips can be divided into smart cockpit chips, autonomous driving chips, and body control chips.

Zhongying Electronics is developing an AFE car-grade lithium battery analog front-end protection chip and plans to launch the product in the second half of 2024;

Jiefa Technology’s first functional safety automotive grade MCU chip AC7840x has been delivered to many benchmark customers and has been applied in large-scale applications. At present, it can be widely used in fields such as automobile body, cockpit, car lights, new energy and motor control;

In terms of vehicle regulation certification, Xinchi Technology has successively obtained ISO 26262 functional safety process certification, AEC-Q100 reliability certification, ISO26262 functional safety product certification and national secret certification, becoming the first domestic vehicle regulation chip company with four certificates in one.

Mainly used for data storage functions, including DRAM (dynamic memory), SRAM (static memory), FLASH (flash memory chip), etc.

GigaDevice's innovative GD552G large-capacity product has passed the automotive AECQ-100 certification, SPI NOR Flash automotive-grade product capacity has been fully deployed, and the full range of GD25 automotive-grade storage products has been adopted in batches by many automobile companies;

Beijing Junzheng In 2022, both automotive-grade SRAM and automotive-grade DRAM will rank among the best in the global automotive-grade market segment, and the market sales of automotive-grade Flash chips will achieve substantial growth compared with 2021;

Juchen Co., Ltd. started with consumer-grade EEPROM and entered the automotive field. Its automotive-grade EEPROM products have begun to be supplied in large quantities.

It is mainly used to detect and feel external signals, and convert the detected information into electrical signals or other required forms to transmit to other devices. Including CMOS image sensor (CIS), image signal processor (ISP), lidar chip, etc.

Vail uses a new generation of OX08B40 CMOS image sensor, built with the help of Xilinx MPSoC and Motovis IP, to compete with ON Semiconductor;

Nanochip launches the new industry-leading NSR31/33/35 series LDO chips for the first time, specially designed for application scenarios where automotive batteries power systems;

Qipuwei XL6600 series is an automotive microcontroller chip that meets AEC-Q100 and ISO26262 automotive safety ASILB. Suitable for body control (BCM), interior air conditioning control (HVAC), etc.

Mainly used for sending, receiving and transmitting communication signals, including baseband chips, radio frequency chips, channel chips, power line carrier communication chips, etc.

Chenxin CX1860 chip is the earliest SoC wireless communication chip launched in China that supports the C-V2X function of the Internet of Vehicles. Currently, the chip has been successfully used in a variety of vehicle OBU and roadside RSU products;

National Technology series security chips have been widely used in vehicle-mounted equipment such as T-Box, ETC/OBU, and OBD;

Allwinner chip T7 is the first domestic car-grade SOC chip launched in 2018, supporting intelligent driving with multi-functional integration of ADAS and DMS.

Analog chips are used in all parts of the car, including body, instrument, chassis, powertrain and ADAS. They are mainly divided into two major parts: signal chain chips and power management chips.

Some high-efficiency and low-power driver chips of Shengbang Co., Ltd. have been produced in small batches, and the comprehensive performance and quality of the products have reached the international advanced level;

Serip products have been introduced into the automotive market, and the first automotive-grade high-voltage precision amplifier has been supplied in batches.

Automotive power management chips (PMICs) are widely used in automotive smart cockpits, autonomous driving, body electronics, instrumentation and entertainment systems, lighting systems, BMS and other scenarios.

Shengbang Microelectronics officially launched the AEC-Q100 automotive standard upgrade of the voltage reference chip in 2021. The first voltage reference chip LM431BQ that supports the AEC-Q100 automotive standard has been officially delivered to users on a large scale;

Jiehuat has been used in many aspects such as power conversion, battery balancing, protection, and dynamic early warning of automotive electronic circuits, and is gradually being promoted and verified in the market;

The production plants of Lingxin Technology's automotive regulatory products all have IATF16949 qualifications, all products have passed AEC-Q100 automotive regulatory verification, and the production line of each product has passed the VDA6.3 audit.

The automotive security chip is a car-grade chip, which mainly includes standards such as AEC and ISO 26262. Its function is to control the safety, efficiency and comfort of the vehicle.

Shanghai Xinti's Mizar vehicle security chip is an automotive SoC-level chip for intelligent connected vehicles. It implements a domestically produced and controllable hardware cryptographic algorithm and has passed the reliability test required by ACE Q100 Grade 1;

Fudan Micro has launched a variety of security chips, which are currently widely used in ETC OBU, TBox, smart cockpit, FOTA, digital keys, smart hardware, meters, accessory certification, copyright protection, etc.