Huang He, General Manager of SMIC (Ningbo) Co., Ltd.
Dr. Huang He gave up the generous treatment of big American companies and returned to China to join SMIC in 2002. From 2065438 to 2006, he was engaged in special process research and development 14 years, and was the main pioneer of almost all special process projects in SMIC and even in Chinese mainland. After the establishment of SMIC in Ningbo, under the inspiration of Dr. Huang He, dozens of core technicians and managers moved to Beilun, Ningbo, and devoted themselves to the special process semiconductor industry, making outstanding contributions to promoting the development of integrated circuit industry in Ningbo.
Over the past five years, the company has gradually grown from a few people to thousands of people, and all employees are closely United around Dr. Huang He, not only because Dr. Huang He has unparalleled professional ability, but also because Dr. Huang He has outstanding personality, great cohesion and leadership.
Members of the company's core technical team said that Dr. Huang He has profound scientific literacy, long-term struggle in the front line of technology research and development and industrialization, broad vision, forward-looking judgment, strong interdisciplinary understanding ability, and strong leadership ability in the operation organization of the large corps, which is exactly the strategic scientist that the Central Talent Work Conference requires to cultivate and use vigorously.
Members of the company's management team have said that Dr. Huang He is honest and responsible for the company, shareholders, state-owned assets, government departments, management team and all employees. He led the team to handle all kinds of problems in corporate governance and management fairly and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company, employees and shareholders. His firm determination deeply inspired every player.
SMIC Ningbo employees generally support Dr. Huang He's leadership, believing that Dr. Huang He led the company to implement the correct development strategy, created a positive corporate culture, and achieved remarkable success. They are determined to continue to work side by side with Dr. Huang He and make new contributions to the semiconductor industry in China.
About SMIC
SMIC (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. was jointly invested by SMIC, the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (large fund) and local investment funds, and settled in Beilun District at the end of 20 16. It is a leading enterprise in Ningbo integrated circuit industry. After the company completed the B round of financing from June 5438 to February 2020, three social capitals tied for the largest shareholder, SMIC was the fourth largest shareholder, and Big Fund was the fifth largest shareholder.
SMIC Ningbo focuses on RF front-end, high-voltage simulation and optoelectronic integrated special process semiconductor field. The core technology and management team is based on professional members who have been engaged in special process research and development and production in SMIC, and has absorbed senior management and technical experts from excellent semiconductor companies at home and abroad, such as Intel, TSMC, Renesas and Applied Materials. At present, the total number of employees in the company is about 800, of which R&D personnel account for about 30%, with per capita experience exceeding 15 years, and engineering and technical personnel account for more than 85%.
The company plans to build and operate two special process integrated circuit wafer manufacturing production lines with advanced technology in the industry. Among them, the 8-inch N 1 production line located in Xiaogang Equipment Industrial Park was put into production in June of 20 18 1 1. The N2 project located in the core port town of Chaiqiao started construction in June of 2020, and the first machine was moved in as scheduled in June of 2026.
Since the establishment of the company, under the leadership of CEO Dr. Huang He, Do not forget your initiative mind, keeping in mind the mission, keeping a low profile and being pragmatic, and striving for progress, has firmly taken the road of basic and principled independent innovation without drawing lessons from foreign ready-made technologies, and has undertaken major national special technological breakthroughs such as "03 Special Project" and "Strong Industrial Base" led by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and built a complete intellectual property protection system. The company's investment in R&D is increasing year by year.
By the end of 20021and 10, the total number of patent applications at home and abroad exceeded 700, and the per capita patent applications of R&D team ranked first in the domestic semiconductor manufacturing field. In May, 20021,the company was selected as one of the top 100 creative enterprises in Zhejiang Province, becoming the only semiconductor enterprise in Ningbo to receive this honor.
SMIC Ningbo is customer-oriented, and adopts the business and operation mode of combining specialized wafer manufacturing OEM with customized product design service support. Its target market covers a number of strategic emerging industries such as 5G communication and mobile terminals, smart home appliances and industrial control, industrial Internet of Things, medical electronics, etc., and it is committed to developing into the largest international advanced semiconductor wafer foundry manufacturer in China.
202 1, 1 1, SMIC Ningbo bulk acoustic wave filter wafer process realized mass production.
SASFR, the technical platform of bulk acoustic wave resonator of SMIC (Ningbo) Co., Ltd., has supported many design companies to realize the mass production of intermediate and high frequency bulk acoustic wave filters (BAW) in RF front-end. The performance of customers' products has reached the best in China and advanced level in the industry, and they can start to supply high-end mobile phones, which is unique in Chinese mainland. And achieved a breakthrough in core technology and scale manufacturing in the field of high-end bulk acoustic wave filters monopolized by foreign manufacturers for a long time.
SASFR, also known as suspended acoustic isolation thin-film resonator, is a cantilever thin-film bulk acoustic resonator technology and device technology independently developed by SMIC Ningbo with a full set of independent intellectual property rights, including the pre-wafer process platform of resonator with integrated cavity and the supporting technology of post-wafer chip packaging and testing.
Far from the traditional technical route used by the industry for many years, the SASFR platform has achieved a truly independent innovation breakthrough in the thin film process architecture and the design of resonant devices. The key performance indicators can be compared with international competitors, and the single performance is even higher than the international level.
The core resonant micro-device of the wafer processing platform of the self acoustic wave filter can realize many functions such as high-performance shielding, noise reduction, filtering or RF signal resonance. The 0.8-6.0GHz RF filter products designed based on this platform have the advantages of low insertion loss, high isolation, miniaturization, high power and small size. It has a wide range of applications and strong flexibility in product design and development, basically covering all fields of 5G communication such as mobile phones, wireless communication base stations, smart meters, and information interaction of smart home appliances.
SASFR technology and large-scale manufacturing platform are one of SMIC Ningbo's core product lines. After SMIC Ningbo launched its product line research and development on 20 19, it passed the product certification of many customers in less than two years and achieved mass production.
According to the person in charge of Xinsheng Company, the most important reason for choosing SMIC Ningbo as a strategic partner is that the SASFR process platform is independently developed by Dr. Huang He, CEO of SMIC Ningbo, and the intellectual property rights are completely self-controllable. Since customer promotion and product cooperation, the yield and reliability of bulk acoustic wave filter manufactured by SMIC Xinsheng in Ningbo have been rapidly improved. SMIC Ningbo has gone through the development path of foreign IDM for ten years in two years.
It is understood that the person in charge of SMIC Ningbo related business once said that Dr. Huang He, CEO of SMIC, is the core inventor of SASFR. Under the leadership of Dr. Huang He, the company's R&D and fab operation team started from scratch, eliminated all kinds of doubts, overcame numerous difficulties and obstacles, and firmly took the road of completely independent process technology development by relying on the team's own strength, and completed the development, setup and verification of a full set of wafer manufacturing processes, wafer-level packaging and testing in a short time, and entered industrialization, creating a miracle.
According to industry experts' evaluation, the success of SMIC Ningbo SASFR manufacturing platform fully shows that with the firm determination of independent innovation, excellent team of unity and hard work and win-win market cooperation, it is entirely possible to achieve industrial breakthroughs in intellectual property security in some foreign monopoly areas.
With the launch of 5G commercialization, domestic filter shipments showed explosive growth. Industry analysts predict that the global filter market will reach $654.38+0.6 billion in 2022, of which bulk acoustic wave filters account for about 47%. At present, the domestic medium and high frequency bulk acoustic wave filter market is still mainly monopolized by foreign manufacturers such as Broadcom and Qorvo.