After the collection of micro-network news, after Yuanke and Qiwei, Hongqin is also acquired by the listed company. On the evening of July 30, the same technology disclosure restructuring plan said that the proposed price of 650 million yuan through the issuance of shares and payment of cash to buy Hong Qin Technology has a 100% stake. Up to now, the three leading domestic companies that have made solid-state storage in special industries have been acquired by listed companies.
It is understood that the transaction is the same technology to intend to Yang Jianli, Hefei Ruby, Zhuhai Hanhu Naland, Huachuang Ruichi, Yu Daxian and Tian Aihua to issue shares and pay cash to buy their holding Hong Qin Technology 100% Equity.
According to the same technology announcement, the initial assets of the above transaction were initially valued at 650 million yuan. After the completion of the transaction, Hongqin Technology will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tongyou Technology. After consultation with the parties, the listed company intends to pay by issuing shares. The consideration amount is 60% of the estimated total amount of the transaction; the consideration paid in cash is 40% of the estimated total amount of the transaction.
The data shows that Tongji Technology is mainly engaged in the research, development and application of data storage, data protection, disaster recovery and other technologies. Hongqin Technology was established in 2007, dedicated to the research and development, production and sales of solid-state storage products, which is an early entry. One of the companies in the SSD market. Hongqin solid-state storage products are used in aerospace, shipbuilding, weapons, electronics and many other military fields, and there are a group of mature and stable military customers.
The data shows that the net profit realized by Hongqin Technology in 2016, 2017 and from January to June 2018 is approximately 9.758 million yuan, -427.82 million yuan and -231.43 million yuan respectively. The net realized after deducting non-recurring gains and losses The profits were 9,558,700 yuan, 9,903,800 yuan and 8,523,200 yuan.
It is worth mentioning that the same technology will be with the counterparty before re-examining the board of directors of this transaction, the two sides will separately sign the "profit forecast compensation agreement", clear specific performance commitments and compensation arrangements, the details will be in the restructuring report (draft) Disclosed in the middle.
Tongyou Technology said that the company continues its industrial chain layout in the flash memory strategy. In addition to the development direction of all-flash storage systems, it is also the first in the industry to expand the flash industry chain, in flash controllers, under-flash algorithms, flash system platforms, flash applications. In terms of various aspects, etc., Hongqin Technology has the manufacturing capacity of SSDs, and has the layout of SAS, SATA, and NVMe main controllers. It has its own unique advantages in flash customization solutions, and the strategy of the same technology. The direction is exactly the same.
Through this acquisition, Tongyou Technology believes that the company can quickly form various technical reserves of flash memory and launch autonomously controllable all-flash products with core competitiveness.
According to the collection micro-network, in October 2015, Xingsen Technology increased its capital to Yuanke Innovation with its own funds of RMB 60 million. In November 2015, Xerox Defense acquired Xi'an Qiwei Technology Co., Ltd. for 895 million yuan. The company's 100% stake. At this point, the three domestic leading companies in the special industry solid-state storage source, Qi Wei, Hong Qin were acquired by listed companies.
However, there are still several strong companies in the industry, such as Hangzhou Hua Weiwei, which has been listed on the New Third Board, and the investment of Zhaoyi Innovation, the core team of the former SandForce China R&D Center and Wuhan Yizheng. Yu Technology and so on.
2. Invest 16 billion! The key projects of 28 information industries in Chengdu will be started.
Set micro-network news (text / Xiaobei) On July 30, 28 key projects of Chengdu Electronic Information Industry Functional Zone were started, of which 13 were industrial projects and 15 were functional supporting projects. The total investment of the project reached 16 billion. yuan.
It is reported that the centralized construction projects cover display, wafer fabrication, artificial intelligence and other fields, Optoelectronic Materials (China) Co., Ltd., Tuomi International Co., Ltd., Anhui Jieshilong Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Vision Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu Si Yue Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
Idemitsu Electronics (China) Co., Ltd. is a Japanese-owned company established in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone to invest in a wholly foreign-owned company. It will invest 215 million yuan to build optoelectronic materials (China) including plant, R&D office and other houses. Base, and focus on new display equipment.
Tuomi International Co., Ltd. will establish Tuomi Research Institute in the second phase of Maker Park, introduce international top experts and high-end talents to set up quantum research points, 3D glass bonding, OLED lighting and other five research groups. Future project research and development results transformation investment expectation More than 3.8 billion yuan. Tuomi International is the main supporting supplier of BOE, Chengdu is an important 'base' of BOE. Some time ago, the 6th generation AMOLED flexible display production line of the BOE Chengdu factory was mass-produced, and China became the second in the world. A country that can produce flexible displays.
Anhui Jieshilong Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. will add another wafer production line to Chengdu. Its 8-inch fab project has a total investment of 5 billion yuan, which is aimed at current hotspots such as power chips, driver chips and fingerprint chips. It is reported that Jieshi Long Electronics will use the 8-inch wafer foundry as a breakthrough to develop a 12-inch wafer production line based on mass production.
Beijing Vision Technology Co., Ltd. (Face++) chose Site Maker Park with a total investment of 100 million yuan. The follow-up will be planned to build an artificial intelligence town or industrial new city in the electronic information industry functional area.
Chengdu Siyue Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. will invest 20 million yuan to build a smart production line R&D and manufacturing base, engaged in the production and research and development of intelligent unmanned navigation vehicles.
In 2017, Sichuan's electronic information industry's main business income was 811.3 billion yuan, Chengdu realized 630 billion yuan, accounting for about 78%. It can be seen that Chengdu is the important electronic information industry gathering place in Sichuan Province and even the western region. Last year, Chengdu Reconstruction of the industrial economic geography pattern, put forward the planning and overall planning and construction of 66 leading industries with clear, professional division of labor, and distinct development of industrial functional areas. Among them, the electronic information industry functional area ranked first.
The 28 key projects started to work in a concentrated way, marking the completion of the construction of Chengdu's electronic information industry functional zone. According to the Sichuan News Network, the relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Electronic Information Industry Functional Zone Leading Group said that the key projects of the electronic information industry functional zone have been smooth. The start of construction will effectively promote the production factors, functional elements and living elements of the functional area of the electronic information industry. It will build a strong industrial function, high-end urban quality, complete service functions, resource-saving and environment-friendly, livable and suitable electronics. The information industry new city injects strong momentum. (Proofreading / Spring and Summer)
3. Join hands with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to build an integrated circuit industrial park, Foshan or launch an industrial investment fund
On July 30, the People's Government of Foshan City, the People's Government of Nanhai District and the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangdong Zhongzheng Urban Development Management Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation framework agreement to jointly promote the development of the integrated circuit industry. Based on the Nanhai Electronic Information Industry Park, we will jointly build an integrated circuit industrial park to promote the development of the integrated circuit industry and turn the South China Sea into a high-tech integrated circuit manufacturing area in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau.
It is reported that one of the important contents of the cooperation framework agreement is to attract and cultivate various types of integrated circuit enterprises in the South China Sea to attract innovative enterprises and high-end talents in the semiconductor field. Focus on the introduction of solid-state storage hard disk (SSD) projects, smart driving automotive chip projects, Intelligent communication chip projects, artificial intelligence voice chips, new electrostatic protection chip projects, integrated circuit process test equipment projects, etc. are being industrialized in the South China Sea. At the same time, plans are being made to raise an integrated circuit industry investment fund to provide capital support for the growth of innovative startups. help.
For this cooperation, the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will carry out high-end technology project incubation in Guicheng, and select projects with industrial value to be put into industrial production in Nanhai Lishui, to create applications, design, manufacturing, packaging and equipment, materials. Integrated circuit industry cluster. The Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will send a research team to participate in the construction of the Jihua laboratory. The industrialization team will participate in the planning and construction of the industrial park and the establishment and management of the industrial fund.
According to the Pearl River Times, Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that we will work hard to mobilize resources and projects, and hope to create a high-quality industrial park with Chinese characteristics and internationalization. I believe that in the next five to ten years, the industrial park will not only be large. Bay Area, will also occupy its own position in the country.
In recent years, Nanhai District has vigorously built a 'two high, three new' modern industrial system including a new generation of electronic information industry, and introduced the "Electronic Information Industry Supporting Incentive Measures", focusing on the support of semiconductor chips and big data industry development. The electronic information industry is bigger and stronger. The integrated circuit industrial park to be built in the South China Sea is based on the electronic information industry park. The electronic information industry park has its own industrial advantages, located in Lishui, and the new generation of information technology with Jinwei in Guangzhou Baiyun District. Artificial intelligence industry parks across the river, echoing each other. (Proofreading / Spring and Summer)
4. The space for catching up is huge. It takes 10 years for China FPGA to enter the 3.0 era.
The competition in the FPGA market is changing, and the most striking trend is the continuous expansion of application areas. Traditionally, FPGA applications have been largely dominated by the communications market, but with artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, smart cars and With the development of IoT edge computing, the demand for FPGAs has increased, and the market structure of FPGAs is changing. At the same time, this provides a rare opportunity for Chinese FPGA vendors who are struggling to find breakthroughs. At the (2018) China FPGA Industry Development Forum, Mong Chenghe, executive deputy secretary-general of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, pointed out that there are problems in the field of FPGAs, such as high concentration of industries and difficulties for latecomers. China is promoting manufacturing powers and networks. The construction of a strong country, how to develop an independent and controllable FPGA industry, is left to the semiconductor industry practitioners must face and think about solving problems.
From the cloud to the edge AI promotes FPGA application development
In recent years, one of the most interesting trends in FPGAs is the continuous expansion of application fields. Communication, industrial control, etc. are the traditional application markets of FPGAs. However, in recent years, with the development of cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things, FPGA Start to expand into new areas.
Zhang Wei, associate researcher of the Heterogeneous Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia, pointed out: 'The rise of artificial intelligence in these years relies on large-scale multi-layer network models of deep neural network algorithms, typically represented by cyclic neural networks and convolutional neural networks. Such a model inference usually requires billions or even billions of operations, while the online service system has a response time of the order of milliseconds. This means trillions of times per second (TFLOPS) or even millions. Million times of computing performance, as well as the size and power consumption of the device, there are certain constraints. This makes us expect the high-performance computing hardware of the data center should have the following advantages: low latency, low overhead and scale. In the data center, FPGA Compared to the core advantage of GPU is low latency, using FPGA to accelerate, only need micro-level PCIe delay (Microsoft's current FPGA is used as a PCIe accelerator card), for communication-intensive tasks, FPGA compared to CPU, GPU The advantage is even greater. 'Today, Microsoft has deployed FPGAs on hundreds of thousands of cloud servers. Microsoft is also currently using FPGAs in data centers.
The rapid rise of network edge computing is also increasing the demand for FPGA applications. Chen Yingren, senior business development manager for Lattice Semiconductor Asia Pacific, said: 'Drivers are being deployed more and more by delays, privacy and bandwidth limitations. Among the IoT system devices, the need for ultra-low-power flexible reasoning needs to be met. 'The data from Semico Research Market Research shows that the number of network edge devices using artificial intelligence will explode at a compound annual growth rate of 110%.
Huang Jun, vice president of Gaoyun Semiconductor Market, divided the emerging market into three parts: First, in the intelligent terminal equipment represented by consumer electronics, the interface is more and more abundant, and at the same time, it needs to maintain small size and low power consumption, which requires The underlying devices can more flexibly support interface conversion and glue logic, making low-density FPGAs more useful. Second, more and more AI operations are beginning to be performed in the field of edge computing, such as audio and video acquisition and preprocessing. They need to support simple or medium complexity algorithms and IP, which in turn gives opportunities for low- and medium-density FPGAs. Finally, the cloud needs to support high-speed SerDes, and high-speed FPGAs are becoming a necessity.
Generalized, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, ADAS, Internet of Things, Robotics, Wearables, 5G Communication Equipment, Network Switching, Industrial Control, Financial Equipment, Security Monitoring, Video Drive, Medical Instruments, Automotive Electronics, Home Electrical appliances, information security, etc. will be important application markets for FPGAs in the future. In 2017, the global FPGA scale market is about 5 billion US dollars. In the report released by Goldman Sachs, it is predicted that the FPGA market will reach 10 billion US dollars in the next 5 years, to 2025. The year will grow to 12 billion US dollars.
From technology to brand, domestic FPGA catches up huge space
FPGAs have always been a highly monopolistic industry. Xilinx, Intel (Altera), Microsemi and Lattice have monopolized most of the world's markets. Despite the emergence of emerging markets in theory, new entrants Bring more development opportunities, but the challenges in the actual operation process are still very large.
'Some emerging markets are not expected to be available, especially for high-density, high-performance FPGAs. Not only is hardware design difficult, Chinese companies are lagging behind in hard IP resources, soft IP IP reserves are lacking, and software performance is The gap between foreign manufacturers is also very big. 'Huang Jun pointed out.
Wang Haili, CEO of Jingwei Qili, also believes that from the perspective of the product itself, there is still a long way to go before Chinese companies want to develop. 'The five years are less, and the more may take 8 to 10 years. 'Wang Haili said.
In addition to the technical gap, the gap in brand awareness is also very obvious. 'Zhongxing incident only gave the domestic companies some touch in the big environment, making them aware of the importance of supply chain management and control. But it is implemented in specific products. At the time, domestic suppliers still have many difficulties. The customer's brand recognition for domestic enterprises is not high, and they are worried about whether they can continue to supply. Even for the learning of product design tools, there is a process. FPGA, I feel that the pressure is still very large. ' Huang Jun said.
From differentiated competition to autonomously controllable FPGA 3.0 era requires long-term efforts
So how can we achieve a breakthrough in domestic FPGAs? Huang Jun believes that differentiation is a must-have for Chinese FPGA companies. 'Domestic manufacturers should start from the small point based on the characteristics of the chip itself and the difficulty of entering the industry, from low-density FPGAs. The products began to break through and gradually developed into medium and high-density FPGAs. In short, we can't simply copy foreign products, but we must carefully study the market segments, what are the special needs of new products, and then optimize the local characteristics of our products to meet the needs of users. For example, the video capture of many smart devices now requires a high-speed interface. We will do high-speed MIPI on the chip, which is faster than other products at the same density. At the same time, we will do more similar reference designs. Application is more convenient. These are examples of differentiation. ' Huang Jun said.
It is also very important to establish an independent industrial ecology. Wang Haili pointed out: 'More than 50% of the patented technologies of foreign companies are patents that protect the core architecture. Chinese companies should also pay attention to the development process, users are easy to use, friendly, and support application-oriented soft IP. The performance of the library and mature EDA tools is an important part of the product landing.
Whether it is a differentiated market strategy or the establishment of an industrial ecosystem, it is a compulsory course in the development of China's FPGAs. Only the establishment of an independent controllable + independent innovation FPGA product system is first embodied in the independent research and development of programmable logic. The ability of the core architecture of the device is secondly reflected in the ability to independently develop software tools for FPGA devices. The Chinese FPGA is truly a foothold. This is the key to the development of FPGAs in China.
According to Wang Haili, China's FPGA industry can be roughly divided into four stages: From the 1990s to 2005, it can be regarded as the Pre-1.0 era of Chinese FPGAs. At that time, the Chinese FPGA industry was just getting started, only in reverse. Design-oriented, chip design / software developers only a hundred people, no own structure, backward technology, no software tools and application development talents, can only gradually explore the progress. After accumulation from scratch, 2006 to 2016 China's FPGA industry has entered the 1.0 era. China FPGA has hundreds of chip design/software development teams, has its own prototype, uses general technology, has basic software tools and basic application soft IP, has the ability to conduct positive To design, began to cultivate the application talent of domestic FPGA.
Now it is in the era of China FPGA development 2.0, which will be from 2017 to 2025. This is a good development period. The Chinese FPGA industry already has thousands of chip design/software developers. After hard work, it is possible Form a complete architecture design, have the ability to adopt advanced technology, easy to use software tools, have some industry soft IP and solutions, form a complete forward design, and gradually establish an FPGA application ecosystem, and form a domestic production of thousands of people. Application talent team developed by FPGA.
As for the 3.0 era (2026 2035), it will be the development stage of China's FPGA from good to strong: the formation of thousands of chip design / software developers, using innovative architecture design and the most advanced manufacturing processes, with leading software tools, Complete industry soft IP and solutions form a relatively complete FPGA application ecosystem, and the application talents of domestic FPGA development reach tens of thousands.
I hope that China's FPGA industry will be able to take off as soon as possible. China Electronics News
5. New look and new weather! Purple light exhibition new website officially launched
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