Entrepreneurship has learned that recently, the general smart chip company Jixin Technology announced the completion of the Pre-A round of financing. This round of financing was jointly led by NIO Capital and Qiming Venture Partners, and followed by BAI Capital, Cornerstone Capital, Zhongke Chuangxing, Harvest Investments, Yuanhe Puhua, and Yunjiu Capital. Yunxiu Capital continued to serve as the exclusive financial advisor. This round of financing will be mainly used to expand the R&D team, accelerate market layout and ecological construction.
It is reported that this core technology has completed three rounds of angel financing since February this year. Investment institutions include Lenovo Venture Capital, Qiming Venture Capital, Yunjiu Capital, Shunwei Capital, Yuanhe Puhua and Yunxiu Capital. With this financing, this core technology has completed a total of 100 million US dollars in financing.
As a general-purpose smart chip company committed to the development of compatible Arm instruction sets, this core technology relies on its world’s top intelligent computing architecture, fully-organized R&D and design team and strong technical accumulation in the industry. And system design and other fields, it is committed to the development of a variety of general-purpose smart chips, which will be used in notebook computers, tablet computers, smart cockpits and other fields in the future. Such chips can improve user experience and prolong battery life. The just-announced M2 smart processor is similar, and its performance may catch up with Apple.
It is reported that this core technology has completed the construction of the core team. The co-founders, director-level executives, and experts are all from top companies in the industry, with an average of nearly 20 years of experience in the industry. Mr. Sun Wenjian, the founder and CEO of this core technology, is the former head of AMD’s customer customization department in China, and has led and developed a number of products; the co-founder and CTO of this core technology, Ms. Liu Fang, once served as the core architect of Apple and participated in the Responsible for the CPU, GPU, and SoC architecture design of multiple generations of A-series and M-series processors, with rich industry experience.
From the perspective of the terminal market, with the increasing demand for products with long battery life, smooth system operation and fast multimedia application processing speed, faster and smarter electronic products are being favored by more and more consumers. The traditional single CPU computing architecture has been difficult to meet the coexistence of CPU, GPU, NPU, etc. derived from different computing power requirements.
The products developed by this core technology at this stage are just after an in-depth investigation of the market, the design of intelligent SoC chips that integrate CPU, GPU, NPU and other computing modules. This type of chip has the processing capability of multiple types of tasks, which can improve computing power and performance, while reducing power consumption and cost, so that the energy saving and emission reduction effect of Arm’s low power consumption feature can be fully released. At the beginning of R&D and design, this core technology fully considers the needs of consumers and the sustainable development of enterprises, creates low-power, high-computing solutions with continuous technological innovation, implements the concept of ESG development, and promotes a comprehensive green society. Economic Transformation.
The use of electronic products with low energy consumption and long battery life can not only reduce the number of charging times, save time and electricity for consumers, but also echo the concept of environmental protection. For enterprises that purchase this core technology product on a large scale, it can not only effectively reduce costs, but also avoid the waste of social resources. According to the calculation of the core technology team, compared with the mainstream chips on the market, the use of this core technology first-generation general-purpose smart chip can save about 40% of power. If it is converted into carbon dioxide emissions, it is estimated that office workers use 8 hours a day, and each use of this chip technology chip can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 10kg per year. When the chip is put into mass production, the carbon emission reduction value will be even more considerable, and it will continue to contribute to the realization of the national “dual carbon” goal in the future.
It is reported that the computing power of the first chip under development by this core technology may exceed the mainstream Arm SoC that has been released in the industry, and a new desktop-level design has been adopted at the chip architecture level. The first product of this core technology is expected to be released in 2023 and delivered to customers around the world.
In addition to the PC field, automotive chips are also a major application scenario of this core technology’s general-purpose smart chips. Entering the era of intelligent driving, users’ demand for cockpit interactive attributes has become stronger and stronger. The application scenarios of smart cockpits continue to expand. While enriching people’s lives, the demand for computing power is also growing rapidly. With the introduction of new concepts such as video applications, AR/VR, games, etc., more severe challenges have been put forward to the computing power requirements of smart cockpits. In recent years, the annual growth rate of computing power requirements for chips has basically remained above 30%.
The product evolution speed of traditional car chip manufacturers has constrained the development and imagination of smart cockpits by car companies. New players are required to provide chips with high computing power to meet everyone’s needs for the continuous intelligent evolution of cars. Personal computers and smart cockpit SoCs are very similar in architecture. This core technology has deep technical accumulation at the level of smart chips, software and systems, and will also enter this field.
Sun Wenjian, CEO of this core technology, said: “The smart chips in cars currently on the market are basically products from a few years ago, and most of them are modified from mobile phone chips. Compared with mobile phones, the life cycle of automotive products is longer, maybe more than ten years. , the replacement speed is slower, so the computing power redundancy of the chip is higher, and the chip with more computing power needs to be embedded to support the future software OTA upgrade, and then the software function iteration promotes the vehicle function upgrade.
Due to the problem of chip computing power, many car owners have encountered problems such as car system freezes and crashes, which greatly affected the car experience. This core technology can provide a chip solution with greater computing power and higher energy efficiency, thereby improving the fluency of the vehicle system, supporting more complex applications and even 3A games, and extending the service life of the vehicle. “
Zhu Yan, managing partner of NIO Capital, said: “The Arm architecture with low power consumption and high expansion has formed an overwhelming advantage in the mobile terminal market, and Apple’s M1 and M2 series chips have made the industry further aware of Arm-based CPU/SoC. Opportunities and trends to enter the high performance computing market.
The team of this core technology is keenly aware of this development opportunity and participates in it. The team members have the world’s top industry experience and years of tacit cooperation, and their deep understanding of the Arm architecture can be effectively transformed into differentiated designs to launch chip products that better meet the needs of the industry. We are optimistic about the development opportunities of this core technology in the automotive market and are honored to join hands with it. Relying on the vast local PC and smart car application market, we believe that this core technology can give full play to its own advantages, quickly iterate products, and finally find a unique path. “
Ye Guantai, partner of Qiming Venture Partners, said: “CPU and SoC chips based on the Arm architecture have the advantages of high concurrency, low power consumption, high integration, and easy deployment, and can be better compatible with PCs, smart travel, IoT, and terminals to the cloud. All kinds of application scenarios will become a new trend of high-performance computing.
This core technology has the world’s top intelligent computing architecture and a fully-organized R&D design team. It has rich experience and strong technical accumulation in product definition, chip R&D and market insight. In the past period of time, we have witnessed the continuous expansion of the team of this core technology, the progress of research and development, and the forward-looking layout and thinking of the company’s development. Qiming Venture Partners is optimistic about the future long-term development of this core technology in the Arm ecological CPU market, and hopes to accompany this core technology to grow into a global leader in the field of general-purpose intelligent computing chips. “
Zhao Penglan, partner of BAI Capital, said: “We believe that the high-performance CPU of the Arm architecture can shine in multiple scenarios, and with the demand for independent control and the rise of local brands, domestic Arm chips are used in mobile phones such as PCs and mobile phones. The application prospects on equipment are particularly broad. We are delighted to discover this chip team with profound consumer-level chip development accumulation and core IP research and development capabilities, and believe that the company can make a breakthrough in this traditionally overseas giant’s world.”
Qiu Xiaochuan, CEO of Harvest Investments, said: “Harvest Investments is very pleased to help the development of this core technology. The high starting point and goal of the CPU research and development of the core technology team makes us full of confidence in the future development of the company. Based on the Arm architecture, the core technology’s development The leading computing power and energy efficiency target setting will undoubtedly have broad prospects in China, and we look forward to the company’s continued achievement of milestones in the future.”
Chen Datong, managing partner of Yuanhe Puhua, said: “We have always paid attention to the investment in the integrated circuit industry, and through early and growth-stage investment, help to cultivate new leading companies in the industry segment. This core technology is very important in the field of general intelligent computing. Competitive advantage, the founding team has an international vision and mature operation and management experience. In the early days of the company’s establishment, a fully-organized R&D and design team covering high-performance Arm CPU system design, software design, etc. was quickly established, and a clear product R&D path was formulated. And market development plans. We will continue to witness and support the development of the company and look forward to the company’s first chip coming out soon.”
Cao Darong, the founding partner of Yunjiu Capital, said: “In just over half a year, we have seen the rapid establishment and growth of this core team, and the research and development is also progressing steadily. The development of general-purpose Arm CPU/SoC is getting faster and faster, and the application is more and more For example, in the field of smart cars, general-purpose high-performance chips are rapidly occupying the market. For example, Tesla has been equipped with AMD Ryzen chips in the cockpit, and Qualcomm’s 8155 and 8295 series are used by more and more OEMs. The pursuit of experience and performance in smart cockpits has further opened up the market demand for high-performance Arm architecture products. I believe that the rich experience and technical accumulation of this core team can lead the company to create excellent products.”
Fu Zhilong, partner of Yunxiu Capital and head of AI/Intelligent Manufacturing Group, said: “With the successive launch of Apple’s M1, M1 ultra and M2, the industry has gradually seen the ARM architecture attack from the mobile terminal to the entire PC computer side, and at low It has excellent performance in terms of power consumption and high performance, and its market share has doubled in the past year. At the same time, the computing power of chips in the field of automotive smart cockpits continues to increase, and the demand for CPU computing power will triple in the next three years. The application field of the blueprint. In this historic wave of opportunity, we firmly support this core to become the leader of ARM CPU.”
The Arm SoC chip of this core technology cuts in from terminal applications such as personal computers, tablet computers, and smart cockpits, and will gradually expand to the fields of edge computing and cloud computing in the future. A complete computing power platform. Sun Wenjian, CEO of this core technology, believes: “It is imperative to build a computing system with end-edge cloud collaboration and strengthen the construction of general computing power. Starting from the terminal chip, this core technology will continue to promote product iterations according to user needs, based on hybrid intelligent computing. Innovative technology builds a computing power system with end-to-edge cloud collaboration and opens the era of ‘smart chip 2.0’.”
While promoting product design and development, in order to better help customers reduce costs and increase efficiency, and improve the user experience of products, this core technology is gradually deepening the collaboration and cooperation with companies such as software and hardware in the industry chain, strengthening resource sharing and complementary advantages, providing Better product services and technical support will jointly promote the ecological implementation of this core technology Arm SoC and contribute more to social development.
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