On May 18th, the “Home Appliances Industry Upstream and Downstream Synergy Promotion Conference” and “China's Household Appliances Core Components - Smart Sensors and Smart Chip Applications” co-sponsored by the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute, and the People’s Government of Ganzhou City The Summit Forum was held in Luzhou, Anhui Province. Major domestic appliance manufacturers and local upstream sensors and chip suppliers promoted the application of domestically-produced core components in the home appliance industry and consolidated the home appliance industry's operational safety.
High dependence on core components for external applications
In the past month, the 'ZTE Incident' has become the focus of attention of the whole nation. Despite the turning point in the 'Zhongxing crisis' with the development of the Sino-US trade negotiations, this incident reflects the lack of control of the Chinese manufacturing industry on upstream core components and parts. The dilemma has led to extensive discussions in the manufacturing industry in China. As a global producer of home appliances, how to ensure the safe and stable operation of China's home appliance industry has become a common concern for upstream and downstream companies.
Dean of the China Household Electrical Appliances Institute Liu Ting
Liu Ting, dean of the China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute, stated that in 2017, China’s home appliance industry’s total industrial output value reached 1.5 trillion yuan, and the share of major home appliance products in the global production capacity exceeded 60%. China has long been a veritable home appliance manufacturing nation.
Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, we have been even more pursuing the transformation of China’s home appliances from a manufacturing powerhouse to a manufacturing powerhouse. In the process of transition from big to strong, China’s home appliances still need to continue to make efforts in the following three areas, seeking breakthroughs: First, nurturing more There are many big brands with international influence. The second is to strengthen the standard discourse power in the international arena. The third is to invest more in the research and development of core components and materials. Liu Ting said, 'A series of recent events have also fully demonstrated that only Achieving a breakthrough in the above three areas will enable our industry to develop safely and healthily.
Currently, as household appliances are becoming highly intelligent, frequency-independent, green and energy-saving, and the trend toward safety is increasing, household appliances are increasingly using sensors and chips. For example, sensors used in refrigerators include flow sensors, temperature and humidity. Sensors, infrared sensors, light sensors five kinds of sensors, air conditioners use distance sensors, touch sensors and other seven different sensors.
Liu Ting pointed out that at present, the large-scale application of smart sensors and smart chips promotes the rapid development of household appliances and technologies in the direction of energy saving, health, and comfort. This is not only the development needs of the internal power of our home appliance industry, but also the people of the new era. Strong need for a good life.
However, an undeniable fact is that China's home appliance industry has a relatively high degree of dependence on foreign companies' sensors and chips.
Xu Hong, chief engineer of the China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute, said that when concepts such as 'green energy' and 'smart home' are used to promote frequency conversion, and smart home appliances are explosively growing, domestic home appliance companies are at risk of unexpected out-of-stock/slow response/long lead times at any time Currently, home appliance core chips mainly include control chips (MCUs), driver chips (IGBTs and HVICs), and smart communication chips. From the point of view of the chip manufacturing industry, MCUs, IGBTs, and HVICs for variable frequency home appliances are taken as examples. , Only the domestic market demand for wafer capacity will increase from the current 580,000/year to 1.21 million/year.
In his view, if the Chinese household appliance industry with such a large body is subject to foreign chip and sensor companies, it would be like 'a giant being held by a small emboli'.
Lu Hongwei, director of development center of Hisense (Guangdong) Air Conditioning Co., Ltd., said that at present, China's air-conditioning display, WIFI module, indoor main control, outdoor main control and motor drive MCU are mainly US-Japan-European brands, domestic brands use very little. The MCU is the brain of the air-conditioning controller and is extremely important. In order to promote the healthy development of the air-conditioning industry, special breakthroughs must be made. As a large-scale inverter air-conditioner production and sales country, most IPM (Intelligent Power Modules) are dependent on imports, which is not conducive to industrial upgrading and technological progress. , Domestically-made IPM is in the starting stage and follow-up learning stage. It needs urgent development by leaps and bounds.
Let Chinese Household Appliances Use Chinese Core Industry Collaborative Collaborative Development
During the conference, Haier, Midea, Hisense, Gree, Jiuyang and other leading domestic appliance companies and Huada Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Fidelity Group, Shanghai Institute of Micro-Technology Industry, Jiaxing Star Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Nanochip Microelectronics Co., Ltd., Renesas Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Beijing Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., Ningbo Keman Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. and other sensor and chip supplier representatives shared their respective applications and development of smart sensors and chips. planning.
Lu Hongwei stated that Hisense's strategy is to rely on Hisense's chip company to carry out independent research and development and application of MCU, and at the same time to develop upstream and downstream in-depth cooperation with domestic semiconductor manufacturers, air-conditioning remote control, display MCU and indoor main control MCU adopt domestic brands, giving Domestic MCU market verification and quality improvement opportunities; Inverter drives use autonomous and domestic chips, and jointly developed and promoted the use of variable frequency controllers with excellent domestic chip manufacturers. In addition, Hisense also cooperates with domestic power device manufacturers in IPM promotion and application cooperation. Since the project was established in 2013, the company has mass-produced 15A/600V and 30A/600V products. The market quality is stable and normal. It is estimated that by the end of 2018, the cumulative usage will exceed 1.6 million.
Xie Wenlu, general manager of MCU Division of Huada Semiconductor Co., Ltd., stated that Huada Semiconductor has a national mission to develop key core chips and build an ecological system, aiming to break the monopoly of foreign manufacturers and solve the problem that the core chips of industrial control in China are subject to human beings. Industrial security and industrial security.
Director of the IC Division of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ren Aiguang
Ren Aiguang, director of the integrated circuit division of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology believes that to solve the challenges faced by China's home appliance industry in sensors, chips and other core components, there are two paths: First, collaborative innovation, chip companies, and sensor companies revolve around the needs of home appliance companies. To enhance the ability, we focus on the definition of the product, the development of standards for collaborative research; Another path is open development, including the opening of the industry and industry.
Ren Aiguang pointed out that this event is a concrete action to implement the Party's Nineteenth Congress, promote high-quality economic development, speed up the construction of a powerful nation, and promote industrial restructuring and upgrading.
Yao Zhi, deputy mayor of Luzhou Municipal People's Government
Yao Zhi, deputy mayor of Ganzhou Municipal People's Government, stated that at present, the household appliance industry in Zhangzhou is pursuing the people throughout the country to continuously create a better life in a new era, focusing on the overall direction of intelligence and health, actively updating the concept, broadening ideas, and accelerating key technology research and development. Product R&D and industrial upgrading, Quzhou home appliance industry intelligence level, core competitiveness and market share are steadily increasing, and the Ganzhou City Government will continue to provide services for household appliances in the company and upstream and downstream companies, and to protect the development of the home appliance industry.
'Standing at a new starting point, we have both huge opportunities brought by domestic consumption upgrades, but also to face the international situation is still complex and changeable,' Liu Ting hopes that the home appliance industry, the upper and lower levels of collaborative integration, in order to promote good and rapid development of the home appliance industry.