Runshi Technology: Determined to become a world-class analog chip company

Founded in August 2014, Runshi Technology is a chip design company integrating research, production and sales. As a new force in the analog chip industry that cannot be underestimated, after just a few years of development, the company's main business revenue in 2020 has exceeded 100 million yuan, an increase of several times over last year.

Zhang Ming, founder, chairman and CTO of Runshi Technology, introduced that Runshi Technology started with analog/mixed signal chain products. Its main products include precision operational amplifiers, high-speed operational amplifiers, general-purpose operational amplifiers, low-noise operational amplifiers, micro-power operational amplifiers, micro-power comparators, analog switches, power management, data converters, level conversion, voltage reference sources, etc., which are widely used in industrial control, medical equipment, security monitoring equipment, instrumentation, automotive electronics, smart home and consumer electronics.

It is understood that the epidemic at the beginning of this year also gave rise to application demands in some market segments, such as medical products, small household appliances and other market segments. Runshi Technology's signal chain and power management product lines are highly consistent with these markets. In half a year, Runshi Technology has completed its planned performance for this year.

At present, the company is headquartered in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, and has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Taipei, etc. It is understood that Runshi Technology's products have been shipped continuously for more than three years, which has also verified the reliability of the products and accumulated a number of domestic and foreign industry benchmark corporate customers.

In the field of medical electronics, major customers include Kangtai Medical, Biolight, etc. Some high-precision zero-drift op amps are suitable for industrial control sensors, medical weak signal sampling and other fields. Their ultra-low offset voltage and temperature drift further demonstrate Runshi Technology's strong strength in op amp design.

The industrial control field has very strict requirements on the operating temperature range, reliability and stability of analog chips. In the industrial field, Runshi Technology's products are mainly used in industries such as electricity meters and water meters. In addition, equipment related to industrial sensor collection and fire power supply are also involved. Beida Jade Bird Huanyu Fire Equipment Co., Ltd. is one of the company's customers.

In the field of consumer electronics, the main customers include Harman, Samsung, TCL Kone, Anker Innovations, etc. In the field of automotive electronics, the products have been introduced into Toyota's fresh air system; in the field of white goods, the cooperation with Midea is being promoted simultaneously.

In recent years, the domestic analog chip market has grown steadily and at a higher rate than the global average. Mr. Zhang said that on the one hand, in order to better meet the growing needs of the domestic market and get closer to customers, and on the other hand, to meet the company's development in SoC chip design, the company is also constantly expanding its product line.

The company has R&D departments in Hangzhou and Beijing. The Hangzhou R&D department focuses on the R&D of high-speed AD products; a department focusing on the R&D of power management chips will be established in Beijing in 2020. Mr. Zhang also said that the company will soon launch 7 new power management chips, including some DC-DC, current limiting switches, overvoltage and overcurrent protection chips, etc.

In addition, Runshi Technology's high-precision ADC, instrumentation amplifier and other signal chain products that are particularly suitable for the industrial control, communications and medical markets will be released soon.

The accumulation of domestic and foreign industry benchmark enterprise customers is inseparable from the dual blessing of technology and services. Runshi Technology can provide one-stop professional services such as "chip standard products and chip design, chip solutions"; it has a large number of core technologies and multiple invention patents and layout patents; some products have absolute advantages in cost performance and reliability.

Runshi Technology has many years of rich experience in mass production in design, development, and manufacturing. It uses mature processes in chip design; the R&D team has more than 10 years of design experience, which can avoid the "pitfalls" in production and manufacturing and further control the yield rate; in terms of reliability testing, it adopts the mass production reliability testing methods of international advanced manufacturers to ensure the product PPM level yield rate.

The advancement of analog chips is mainly reflected in the improvement of circuit performance parameters. Mr. Zhang told Jiwei.com that the high-precision operational amplifiers RS855x series and RS852x series of Runshi Technology used in infrared thermometers some time ago are superior to those of international manufacturers in terms of accuracy and reliability.

Public data shows that the scale of China's analog chip market was 227.34 billion yuan in 2018. However, the self-sufficiency rate of domestic analog manufacturers is less than 20%, and less than 5% in the high-end field, so there is huge room for import substitution.

Mr. Zhang also said that looking at the signal chain analog chip market alone, international giants like TI and ADI have sales of about tens of billions of US dollars in China, but the total sales of domestic manufacturers may be less than 1 billion yuan.

In his opinion, the signal chain analog chip track is wide enough. In 2021, the company will continue to improve its signal chain products, continue to focus on the niche market, and compete with its competitors in a differentiated manner.

In the long run, Runshi Technology will benchmark against major international manufacturers and transform standard products into dedicated chip design in the form of "building blocks".

Let Runshi chips beat in every corner of the electronic product world, and it is Runshi Technology's vision to become a world-class analog chip company!

As an industry with high investment and high technology threshold, Runshi Technology is open to external capital to ensure the company's core competitiveness. At the same time, Runshi Technology will further improve its own hematopoietic function and continue to cultivate talents. At present, Runshi Technology's R&D team mainly comes from Peking University, and has formed a long-term cooperative relationship with Peking University.