Recently, The registered capital of Shenzhen Hubble Technology Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership), a new shareholder of Qingdao Tianren Micro-Nano Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianren Micro-Nano"), which was established in 2015, increased to 2.3161 million yuan.
This is the second financing obtained by Tianren Micro-Nano, a nano-embossing head enterprise in the past six months. At the beginning of January this year, Tianren Weina announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan of Series A financing funded by SMIC Juyuan's exclusive strategic investment. According to the shareholding structure, qingdao Tianren Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership), the company's shareholding platform, is the largest shareholder, with a shareholding ratio of about 52.9%; Suzhou Juyuan Zhuxin Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) holds about 6.6%; Shenzhen Hubble holds about 5%.
With this investment, Huawei will also further improve its semiconductor industry chain and improve the independent controllability of chips.
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Market share exceeds 95%
Tianren Micro-Nano Registered Place, located in Chengyang District, Qingdao, is the world's leading provider of micro-nano processing equipment and solutions, and has established core technologies and patent barriers with independent intellectual property rights, with a market share of more than 95% in the field of nano-embossing.
△ Nano-embossing application field
According to public information, the core competitiveness of Tianren Micro-Nano is to provide customers with nano-embossing overall solutions, products and services covering nano-embossing-related equipment, molds, materials, processes and production consulting services. The company is committed to expanding the application of nanoimprint technology in innovative products such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), micro-nano electromechanical systems (MEMs/NEMs), virtual reality and augmented reality optical waveguides (AR Waveguides), 3D sensing, biochips, displays, and solar energy. The main customers include the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai Institute of Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University, Fudan University and other well-known academic institutions, as well as industrial production users such as Huawei, Hisense, Hangzhou Ouguang Core, Crystal Optoelectronics, and Yiguang Technology.
Dr. Ji Ran, the founder and actual controller of Tianren Micro-Nano, has been engaged in the research and development and industrialization of nano-imprinting technology for nearly 20 years, and is one of the few experts in the world in this field. In 2000, He went to Germany to study under Professor Kurz, the father of Nanoinjection in Europe, to study nanoimprinting equipment and materials, and obtained a master's degree from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and a doctorate from Max Planck Institute. In 2015, Ji Ran resigned as the chief scientist of nano-embossing of German listed companies and returned to China to establish Tianren Micro-Nano, focusing on the research and development and industrialization of nano-embossing equipment and complete solutions.
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Replaces traditional lithography techniques
Nanoimprinting is a new type of micro-nano processing technology. This technology has reached an ultra-high resolution through the means of mechanical transfer, which is expected to replace the traditional lithography technology and become an important processing means in the field of microelectronic materials.
△ Nano-embossing results
Related reports show that tianren micro-nano was once in a trough at the beginning of its establishment, when nano-embossing technology was mainly used in the field of scientific research, less application in the industrial field, and the only market was mostly divided by foreign companies.
Until 2019, 3D sensing technology promoted the industrial application of micro-nano optical components in mobile phones, security and other fields, and nano-embossing technology finally shifted from scientific research to large-scale industrial production after many years of silence. At the same time, with the acceleration of the domestic chip industry chain to beautification, mobile phone manufacturers began to actively seek domestic alternative equipment and technology.
With its technological leadership and service advantages, Tianren Micro-Nano has successfully entered the industrial chain of mobile phone micro-nano optical devices, and the nano-embossing equipment and full set of solutions produced by Tianren Micro-nano have passed the industrialization verification of several Huawei mobile phone suppliers, helping mobile phone manufacturers break through foreign technology monopoly and blockade, and gaining broad market prospects.
In 2020, Tianren Weina, which has increased its orders, moved from Qingdao International Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park to Qingdao Future Science and Technology Industrial Park, with a new plant area of 4,000 square meters.
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Huawei's "buy, buy, buy" speed up
This is not the first time Huawei has invested in Qingdao enterprises.
Due to the chip supply cut, Huawei's investment has shifted from the past conservative to aggressive style, through a series of strategic investments and VC investments, supporting domestic enterprises in semiconductors, 5G and other fields, and looking for domestic alternatives in the supply chain. Last year, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. invested 66,066,743 yuan in Qingdao's CEC Instrumentation Co., Ltd., with a shareholding ratio of 8%. CLP Instruments has reached the domestic leading and international advanced level in the fields of microwave millimeter wave, optoelectronics, communications, basic measurement and related technologies, so Huawei's investment is considered to be related to the 5G layout.
Huawei has also set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Hubble Technology Investment Co., Ltd. According to the enterprise investigation, Hubble Investment has captured 42 companies in just two years, most of which are in the semiconductor field, covering chip design, testing, packaging, materials, optoelectronics, equipment, EDA, sensors and other aspects of the industrial chain. For example, Keyi Hongyuan, which has recently invested in the company, is the light source system supplier of Shanghai Microelectronics, a domestic lithography machine manufacturer.
The main body of this investment in Tianren Weina is Huawei's newly established another industrial investment platform in April this year, Shenzhen Hubble Technology Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership), with a registered capital of 2 billion yuan, jointly funded by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (69%), Huawei Terminal (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (30%), and Hubble Technology Investment Co., Ltd. (1%).
Although Shenzhen Hubble has only been established for more than 3 months, it has invested in 7 semiconductor and mobile phone industry chain enterprises, including power management chip enterprises - Jiehuate Microelectronics Co., Ltd., special glass materials enterprises - Chongqing Xinjing Special Glass Co., Ltd. and so on. Huawei's just released P50Pro, the nano-crystalline glass cover original material used is from Xinjing Special Glass. Zhou Xiaofeng