According to the product road business review news, Focus on wafer-level optical chip company, Zhangyou Optoelectronics announced the completion of the A + round of financing, the current round by the Lantern Capital, Walden International and the Chinese Academy of Sciences's fund Zhongkechuangxing joint investment.
According to public information, Silicon Photonics was established in 2016. It is a high-tech enterprise specializing in R&D and application of wafer-level optical chips. It is dedicated to exploring the fusion of semiconductor and optical technologies to design semiconductor wafers. Nano-grade, low-cost optical chips that cryogenic optics cannot match. The main products include reticle gratings, microlens arrays, tapered optical fibers, micro-optical component coatings, micro-optical component packages, optical modules, and robotic automation Sensing components, photoelectric space positioning devices, etc.
At present, the first production line of Panyou Optoelectronics will be completed in May of this year. At that time, it will achieve mass production of diffractive optical chip DOE, optical display waveguides, high-speed optical communication links and other wafer-level optical chip products. In the frontier areas, through this round of financing, the company has built a comprehensive network of optics, semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and well-known venture capital funds.
As the current round of financing, Yuan Yi Capital Partners, Dr. Liu Yiran of Optoelectronics believes that the wafer-level fabrication of optical chips makes the photonic technology that has been soaked into the consumer sector and will trigger a series of incremental scenarios from short-term to long-term. Demand. It can be foreseen that in the next three years, consumer-level applications such as depth sensing, AR, and unmanned demand will take the lead in the development of machine-level applications; in the medium to long-term, photons will inevitably penetrate into the computing sector. Far-reaching changes in machine intelligence applications.
Wang Lin, an international partner at Walden, who has worked in semiconductor industry for many years, said that with Moore's Law moving to the limit, the development of semiconductor integrated circuits is drawing a perfect 'S curve' approaching the ceiling. 'Integrated light' replacing 'integrated power' will be a The irreversible transformation of the field. Backtracking the development of semiconductor chips, 'nanoscale' and 'scaled low cost' are the two characteristics of integrated circuit technology. Similarly, wafer-level optics allows optics to increase precision by an order of magnitude Reducing costs by an order of magnitude, making the commercial value of optical chips possible.
According to the data of the company's business card, the company had previously obtained two rounds of financing. In December 2017, it obtained tens of millions of yuan in A round of financing, and the investors were Chenhui Ventures, Zhongxing Xingguang, Kunzhong Capital and Sunny Optical; In January 2017, it received RMB 1 million angel round of financing. The investor was Chenhui Venture Capital and Zhongheng Starlight.