Ziguang Guowei: the on-board controller chip has been tested in the whole vehicle factory and is expected to be completed within this year.
CTOnews.com August 26 news, according to the research minutes disclosed by Ziguang Guowei, on August 23, Ziguang Guowei said that the supply of wafers was still tight in the first half of the year, and the company's smart security chip production capacity was limited. In addition, the epidemic in Shanghai in the second quarter led to the shutdown of the company's downstream module plant, affecting the company's product shipment progress, and it is expected that new production capacity will be released in the wafer foundry in the second half of this year.
CTOnews.com learned that Ziguangguo said that the company's products related to automotive chips are divided into two parts, one is a car specification-level safety chip, which belongs to the vehicle networking application scenario, which provides protection for automobile-related information security functions, and has now achieved small batch shipments.
Ziguang pointed out that the other part is the car controller chip, which is one of the company's important business directions in the future, with the support of convertible bond investment projects. At present, the product has been tested in the whole vehicle factory, and it is progressing smoothly and is expected to be completed within this year. The business barrier of vehicle controller chip is high, which is the business that the company attaches great importance to, and we will not rule out further increasing investment in this field in the future.
In terms of order delivery cycle, compared with the first half of this year, the current order delivery cycle of Ziguang has become shorter. Affected by the epidemic in the first half of this year, the delivery cycle is very long, and now it is back to normal delivery cycle, basically in 3-6 months.
In terms of R & D investment, Ziguangguo invested 466 million yuan in R & D in the first half of this year, an increase of 37.66% over the same period last year. The total R & D investment for the whole year is expected to exceed 1 billion yuan, of which the proportion of expenses is about 80%.
