Vimicro won the "Annual IC Unicorn Award" of the 2021 China IC Billboard

On January 16, the 2021 China Semiconductor Investment Alliance Annual Meeting and China IC Billboard Awards Ceremony were held at the Beijing International Hotel. Qiao Yueshan, Director of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ding Wenwu, Chairman of the China Semiconductor Investment Alliance, Deng Zhonghan, Founder and Chief Scientist of Vimicro and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and other leaders and experts attended the event. Vimicro Technology won the "2021 China IC Billboard Annual IC Unicorn Award".

IC China Billboard is an authoritative selection event in China's semiconductor industry. The selection is jointly judged by 129 member units of the China Semiconductor Investment Alliance and more than 400 CEOs of the semiconductor industry. The selection was made after two months of award registration and candidate enterprise selection. This event selected companies and individuals who made outstanding contributions and achieved excellent results in technological innovation and product design and manufacturing, industry capital management and operation, and upstream and downstream cluster construction in the semiconductor field in 2020, including Xiaomi Industrial Investment, Intel Capital, Sequoia China, ARM China, Vimicro Technology, and Sweet Technology. Vimicro Technology was selected as the "2021 China IC Billboard Annual IC Unicorn Award" for its innovative capabilities and outstanding performance in SVAC national standards and artificial intelligence codec chips. 

As a senior domestic chip company with independent intellectual property rights, Vimicro Technology, a subsidiary of Vimicro, is a newly established science and technology enterprise that has been committed to technological innovations in the field of AIoT, such as artificial intelligence edge computing chips, machine vision encoding and decoding algorithms, and intelligent software and hardware integrated products. It has independently developed key core technologies such as artificial intelligence edge computing chips, algorithms, and codecs, and serves major "new infrastructure" tasks such as Safe China, smart cities, digital borders, industrial Internet of Things, and domestic information innovation. It is a global leading company in video image artificial intelligence edge computing chips.

Vimicro Technology took the lead in participating in and jointly formulating the national standard system for intelligent video perception (including the 25724 basic source SVAC national standard, the two mandatory application national standards 35114 and 37300, and the 28181 national and ITU standards), developed the world's first embedded neural network processor SVAC chip, has more than 3,000 domestic and foreign technical patents, and has twice won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. It provides a full-stack intelligent vision solution including artificial intelligence edge computing chips, machine vision encoding and decoding algorithms, intelligent software and hardware integration, and industry application systems, and provides services to companies such as Huawei, Dahua, 360, Baidu, Alibaba, SenseTime, and Inspur, and jointly builds an industrial ecological cooperation system. To meet the needs of the construction of "Digital China", it has been successfully applied to more than 100 large-scale application scenarios such as public security, smart cities, and commercial intelligence at the ministry, provincial, and municipal levels for large-scale demonstrations, and has become a unicorn company in this field.

Academician Deng Zhonghan said: "The semiconductor industry is the core of the information industry and the key force leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. We must make every effort to promote the rapid innovation and development of the semiconductor industry, enable core technology science and technology enterprises to achieve industrialization and scale, and better serve the national strategic goals. As unicorn companies in the semiconductor industry, they should create core technologies through scientific and technological innovation, open up new scenarios and new tracks, and lead industry standards, and even create national standards to lead the industry to grow. While achieving commercial success, companies should meet national needs and undertake the historical mission of industrial revolution and social progress."

Zhang Yundong, general manager of Vimicro, said in an interview with reporters: "This award is the industry's recognition of Vimicro's innovation capabilities and development potential in the semiconductor industry. Vimicro has been committed to the research and development and implementation of technological innovations such as artificial intelligence, edge computing, AIoT chips, and intelligent software and hardware integration. In the future, Vimicro will move forward along the intelligent Moore's Law technology route, and with innovative technologies, further enhance the information processing capabilities of intelligent chips, and help China's semiconductor industry continue to innovate and develop."