Text/Dong Wen/Ziyang Correction/Zhiqiu
When it comes to China's chip giant, perhaps many Chinese people are the first to think that the company will be Huawei. Huawei HiSilicon has made a series of considerable achievements in the chip industry, adding bricks and tiles to the localization of Chinese chips.
Unfortunately, in recent years, the fierce development momentum of Huawei HiSilicon has made many Western countries start to worry, so they have adopted many "unconventional" measures to show the development of Huawei HiSilicon.
Limited by various factors, huawei hiSilicon's development in the chip field has now fallen to a low point.
It is worth mentioning that although the domestic chip giant Huawei is limited by well-known factors, the development prospects are not optimistic. However, in addition to Huawei, there is also a relatively outstanding chip manufacturer in the mainland, which is called "Little Huawei" by the industry, and this domestic manufacturer is Unigroup Zhanrui.
Annual revenue of 11.7 billion
On January 16, domestic chip design company Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui disclosed the "2021 Annual Performance Report". According to the performance report disclosed by Tsinghua Unigroup, during the reporting period, the company's operating income was about 11.7 billion yuan, an increase of 78% year-on-year.
At the same time, Tsinghua Unigroup said that according to Trend Force's estimate for the first three quarters of the global Fabless Top10, annual revenue of more than $1.68 billion can enter the list. The 11.7 billion yuan (about $1.83 billion) revenue achieved by Tsinghua Unigroup in 2021 is largely expected to be on the list.
It is worth mentioning that according to the "2021 Annual Performance Report" disclosed by Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui, the company's revenue in the consumer electronics business area increased by more than 60% year-on-year. Specifically, the steady growth of Tsinghua Unigroup in the consumer electronics business is inseparable from the blessing of brands such as Samsung, Glory and vivo and realme.
Won 4 Chinese first places
On the whole, the series of development achievements achieved by Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui in 2021 can be described as achieving multi-point flowering.
On January 24, the research institute CCID released a statistic showing that the market share of Tsinghua Unigroup's Cat.1 chip market in China reached more than 70% in 2021.
Among them, the market share of Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui in the field of switch cabinet communication chips in two-wheelers has reached 60%, and the market share of the cloud speaker terminal chip market, the OTT set-top box terminal WiFi chip market and the Cat.1 chip market in the sharing economy field has reached 70%, 60% and 70% respectively, which is in the leading position in the industry.
There is no doubt that Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui has won the first place in the industry in cat.1, set-top boxes and cloud speakers, which to a certain extent shows the strong competitiveness of Tsinghua Unigroup's related chip products in the current situation.
Domestic chip leader finally "stands firm"
In fact, founded in 2013, Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui has not entered the field of vision of consumers for a long time in the past and has been ignored by the Chinese people.
One of the main reasons is that the current mobile phone manufacturers use more processors from chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek, while Unigroup Zhanrui's Tiger Ben series chips have no opportunity to appear in high-end smartphones.
Although there is a certain gap between Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui and Qualcomm and MediaTek in the field of smart phone chips, the chip products under Unigroup Zhanrui have now covered many aspects of consumers' daily lives. Therefore, even if many Chinese people are relatively unfamiliar with the domestic chip giant of Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui, it still cannot erase the important position and important role played by Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui in the field of domestic chips.
Write at the end
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the people's livelihood services and the segmentation of the chip market has made considerable achievements, today's Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui is also constantly making efforts in mobile phone processors, successfully designing 6nm chip processors.
It is foreseeable that with the attention of Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui to mobile phone processors, in the future, Unigroup Zhanrui has made considerable achievements in 5nm or even 4nm chip processors, and it is only a matter of time.
Therefore, as a domestic chip giant, Unigroup Zhanrui has undoubted chip design hard power, and its future development should not be ignored.