The specific application scenarios of industrial chips include traditional industrial fields such as factory automation and control systems, motor drives, lighting, testing and measurement, power and energy, as well as medical electronics, automobiles, industrial transportation, building automation, displays and digital tags, digital video surveillance, climate monitoring, intelligent instruments, photovoltaic inverters, smart cities, etc.
The application fields involved in industry are very wide and diverse. According to the perception, transmission, processing and other processes of industrial signals, industrial chips can be divided into six categories based on product types: computing and control chips (processors, controllers, FPGAs, etc.), communication chips (wireless connections, RF radio frequency), analog chips (amplifiers, clocks and timers, data converters, interfaces and isolation chips, power, power management, motor drives, etc.), memory, sensors and security chips. It can be said that industrial chips have become a key support for the new industrial revolution and new infrastructure construction. The design and manufacturing level of industrial chips is the true touchstone for measuring a country's overall manufacturing competitiveness.
Industrial chips are the fundamental part of the entire industrial system architecture, solving basic and execution problems such as perception, interconnection, computing, and storage, and playing an important role in industrial production. Industrial chips mainly have the following characteristics:
1. Industrial products are subjected to harsh environments such as extremely high/low temperatures, high humidity, strong salt spray, and electromagnetic radiation for a long time, making the usage environment more demanding,
2. Industrial chips need to meet the customization needs of different products,
3. The main development mode of industrial chip enterprises is IDM mode
4. The market concentration of industrial chip enterprises is relatively high