Xingweifan: Actively complete RTC all-scenario products and occupy the market high ground as soon as possible

Jiwei Network news, on December 18, the "2022 Third China Semiconductor Investment Alliance Annual Conference and China IC List Award Ceremony" jointly organized by China Semiconductor Investment Alliance and Aijiwei was successfully held in Beijing, and Shenzhen Xingweifan Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xingweifan") won the "Annual Excellent Innovative Product Award". Mr. Ding Wenwu, President of the State Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "Big Fund"), presented the trophy to Xingweifan.

Founded in 2000, Xingweifan is a national high-tech enterprise integrating the design, production and development of semiconductor products (including ICs and modules), and is a pioneer and focus in the field of domestic real-time clock chips. During the meeting, Xingweifan accepted an exclusive interview with Jiwei Network.

For a long time, the domestic crystal oscillator built-in, bandwidth temperature accuracy compensation of the high-end temperature compensation RTC chip market has been monopolized by Japan's EPSON and the United States MAXIM and other companies. In the past ten years, no less than ten chip companies in China have been trial-producing warm supplement RTC products, but there are few cases of successful mass production.

In this case, Xingweifan launched a real-time clock chip RTC SD3178 with wide temperature and high-precision analog compensation, which has extremely rich product functions and can truly achieve the accuracy of 5ppm in the range of -40 ~ +85 degrees, in line with the National Grid network access standards.

At present, the RTC chip industry market has shown a trend of rapid growth, and at the same time, since 2020, under the interference of the epidemic, the supply of imported RTC chips has been seriously insufficient, and the market has been in a state of short supply for a long time, leaving a large market space for domestic enterprises represented by Xingweifan.

Xingweifan said that the state of market shortage of supply does give the company the opportunity, the current domestic head enterprises on the domestic chip recognition is much higher than before, willing to choose domestic chips, there are many head companies to take the initiative to find us, the company's RTC chip products in the market has achieved a good performance.

Due to the product layout and stocking in advance, and the strong support of upstream fabs, Xingweifan's SD3178 chip can successfully seize the market during this round of production shortage. Xingweifan said that we will continue to explore new functions in the old product line and develop a new generation of products.

Looking forward to the future, Xingweifan said that because the current foreign competitors are still in a state of very insufficient supply, the overall production capacity is expected to ease until the second half of next year, therefore, in 2022, the company still has a large room for growth in the segmented RTC market, and it is expected that there will be more than 1 times the growth.

To this end, the company will actively complete the products of various application scenarios in the RTC market in 2022, such as battery built-in CHIP RTCs, and temperature compensated clock sources for MCUs. In terms of market strategy, the company attaches great importance to the promotion of RTC all-scenario products and will occupy the highland of the RTC product market in various segments as soon as possible.

Xingweifan also pointed out that we need to continue to deepen the support of the upstream supply chain, pin-to-pin compatibility in product design, richer and more powerful performance and intellectual property rights. Only when we have strong product competitiveness can we make it difficult for foreign competitors to recover lost ground and dominate the market in the future. (Proofreading/New)