A few years ago, when it came to the best chip design company in China, it was, of course, Huawei HiSilicon.
Huawei HiSilicon's most representative chip is the Kirin chip, which is at the top level in the world and can be compared with the flagship chips of Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Samsung.
At the same time, Huawei HiSilicon also has Kunpeng chips, Ascend chips, Tiangang chips, Barong chips, etc., with many varieties and strong performance, and there is no rival in China.
Therefore, relying on these chips, coupled with Huawei's large sales of mobile phones and the high market share of Kirin chips, Huawei ranked among the top 10 in the global chip design enterprise rankings, and was once in front of MediaTek.
However, the back story, everyone is also clear, with the suppression of Huawei by the United States, Kirin chips once became a swan song, and Kunpeng chips were also in trouble, with fewer shipments, and the natural ranking declined.
Later, Huawei HiSilicon fell out of the top 10 chip design companies, and then other domestic manufacturers continued to work hard to take over Huawei, in fact, there were indeed two companies later, in addition to Huawei HiSilicon, there are 10 major chip design companies in the world.
One is UNISOC, the other is Weir shares, and recently with the release of data in the third quarter, we found that this time Weir shares have entered the top 10 of global chip design companies, ranking 9th, and the only company in Chinese mainland on the list of Top 10.
As shown in the figure above, Weir shares ranked 9th in the third quarter, with revenue increasing by 42.3% quarter-on-quarter, accounting for 1.7% of the top 10 companies, and it is also the highest ranked Chinese mainland company.
Why is Vail so good? In fact, it is the credit of OmniVision Technology, which produces CMOS chips, and this company was originally an American company, but it was acquired by Weir shares.
In recent years, Haowei has continued to work hard and launched many high-quality, high-performance CMOS chips, and domestic mobile phones such as Huawei and Xiaomi also vigorously use Haowei's CMOS chips.
In addition, in recent years, the development of domestic new energy vehicles, these new energy vehicles also use a large number of cameras, it is necessary to use CMOS chips, as well as the development of security monitoring in recent years, these security monitoring is also inseparable from CMOS chips, as the world's top three CMOS chip manufacturers, Haowei of course has high revenue and fast growth.
Some time ago, some media reported that at present, Xiaomi, Huawei, etc. are fully supporting Haowei CMOS, the reason is that everyone no longer wants to use Sony, Samsung's CMOS, and wants to support the domestic supply chain.