That one is called Wuhan Guangliang Lantu Technology Co.@huemens bro is that the same company that bought Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing assets a few months ago?
That one is called Wuhan Guangliang Lantu Technology Co.@huemens bro is that the same company that bought Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing assets a few months ago?
@huemens thanks bro, so Hongxin will be operational?That one is called Wuhan Guangliang Lantu Technology Co.
I haven't seen any new reports about that plant yet. May be it will once domestic equipment becomes available in large quantity. Depends on how much work is already done there and if its worth continuing or diverting any remaining assets to use elsewhere.@huemens thanks bro, so Hongxin will be operational?
So Tugendhat and IDS could not prevent the sales.Nexperia has completed the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab
The Chinese company said it received notification last week from Companies House, the U.K. registrar of companies, that ownership of Wales-based Newport Wafer Fab has been transferred to Wingtech subsidiary Nexperia.
"The transfer of the ownership has been completed, and Wintech now indirectly owns the target company [Newport Wafer Fab] 100%," Wingtech said in a filing with the Shanghai stock exchange.
Newport Wafer Fab, however, reported a net loss of 18.61 million pounds ($25.8 million) on revenue of 30.91 million pounds last year. The plant counts Nexperia, Samsung, Motorola and other chip developers as its clients. Wingtech said in the stock exchange filing the money-losing chip plant would have a limited impact on the group's financial performance given its relatively small size. Wingtech's revenue was 51.7 billion yuan ($7.98 billion) in 2020 with a net profit of 2.46 billion yuan, nearly double from a year ago.
But isn't Omnivision a Chinese company? They are treating it like a non Chinese company?China in CMOS arena.
There are now eight Chinese CMOS image sensor manufacturers, which has grown from four 10 years ago, according to Koifman.
He noted that Chinese sensor firms have managed to reduce costs to a very low level. In 2017, Superpix released a QVGA sensor with integrated ISP priced at $0.068, at the time the most competitive QVGA chip on the market.
Koifman said that 20 years ago such a chip would cost $50 or $30. ‘It’s a big achievement,’ he said.
These price reductions are not attained solely by using inexpensive foundries, but also by making efficient use of silicon area, Koifman observed – by being able to reduce the area around the pixel array. Some Chinese companies, like Galaxycore, excel in area optimisation.
‘In terms of performance, it’s [CMOS technology from Chinese firms like Superpix] not at the level of Sony or Omnivision, but not that far away.’
The other Chinese company Koifman highlighted was GPixel, which was founded in 2012 with headquarters in Changchun, China and offices in Yokohama, Japan and Antwerp, Belgium. He said that the firm has ‘won a huge following’, especially in the industrial sector, with many companies switching to GPixel sensors.
Koifman put GPixel’s success down to, in part, being able to deliver shipments without delay. He said that some image sensor companies can announce sensors that are not ready for full-scale production, and which are delayed for long periods of time. ‘GPixel somehow managed to deliver on their promise time after time,’ he said.
GPixel has access to a low-volume, high-end BSI fab through YCM in Changchun, which supports 8-inch and 12-inch wafer sizes. The company’s sCMOS products are BSI compatible.
In his presentation at the conference, Wim Wuyts, chief commercial officer of Gpixel, said that the firm also has access to 3D stacking technology for high-end products, also through YCM.
‘It [3D stacking] opens up a different dimension where we [Gpixel] can increase the readout speeds significantly,’ Wuyts said, adding that this technology will overcome some of the physical challenges associated with a monolithic approach.
I've wondered about that too. But it is better to see Omnivision as a repository of IP for China rather than a company at the behest of China's national semiconductor plans.But isn't Omnivision a Chinese company? They are treating it like a non Chinese company?
Impossible. TSMC cannot function without equipments and orders from foreign countries. China would get some buildings with clean rooms and equipments which is likely locked out, if at all it magically got Taiwan.