Xiaomi has invested in another chip company!

Latest update time：2021-09-01 12:18

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According to Qichacha, Changjiang Xiaomi has made a new overseas investment in a domestic single-photon sensor chip developer - Shenzhen Lingming Photonics Technology Co., Ltd.

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According to Lingming Photonics' official website, the company was founded in May 2018 by four returnees with PhDs. Headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, with a research and development center in Zhangjiang District, Shanghai, the company employs over 50 people, 10 of whom hold PhDs from leading international universities.

3D sensing is rapidly gaining attention across the industry, with its diverse applications in mobile phones, automobiles, robotics, and security. However, the combination of application development and technological lag has led to a shortage of high-performance 3D sensing chips. Domestic 3D sensing developers, in particular, face a near-universal shortage of these chips.

This market gap presents a development opportunity for Lingming Photonics. The company is committed to developing and manufacturing high-performance optoelectronic 3D sensing (dToF) chips using world-leading single-photon detector technology. These chips are used in mobile phone 3D modules, LiDAR, and other high-performance depth sensing systems, enabling intelligent hardware to achieve a leap in three-dimensional perception capabilities.

According to relevant information, Lingming Photonics mainly develops large-scale integrated chips for high-efficiency single-photon detectors (SPADs). It currently has two main product business lines: silicon photon multipliers (SiPMs) suitable for high-performance lidar photon receiving solutions and SPAD imaging sensors (SPADIS) and overall dToF solutions suitable for consumer electronic products.

On June 24, 2020, Lingming Photonics also received investment from Lightspeed China Venture Capital Fund and Shenzhen OFI Investment Holding Co., Ltd. It is reported that this round of investment reached tens of millions of RMB.

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