Hangzhou Wenmi Xingguang Technology Development Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as “Wenmi Xingguang”) was founded by a doctor who returned from overseas. It is a technology-based, international science and technology innovation company with high-power semiconductor laser chips as its core products. The company is headquartered in Hangzhou, the “City of Innovation and Vitality”.

The core team of Wenmi Xingguang comes from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The university is at the forefront of the world in research fields such as InP-based general platform technology and III-V semiconductor integration technology. It has many world-leading instruments and equipment. It is also the founding unit and management unit of JePPIX, the world’s leading III-V photonic chip wafer platform.

LiDAR enters a period of rapid development. With the rapid development of autonomous driving, the importance of LiDAR, a core perception system, has become increasingly prominent.Huawei’s high-profile entry into the market has led to 2021 being dubbed the “Year of LiDAR.” According to statistics, the number of LiDARs installed in vehicles in China will reach 130,000 in 2022 and 300,000 in 2023, a growth rate of 130%. High-performance, low-cost LiDAR will become standard equipment on all new vehicles.

“Domestication of chips is an urgent priority.” Due to the lengthy chip manufacturing industry chain, encompassing EDA, IP, equipment, design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, mask manufacturing, and materials, any bottleneck in any one link can hinder the entire industry. my country is particularly weak in these four areas: IP, EDA, lithography equipment, and chip manufacturing.Consequently, my country’s chip self-sufficiency rate is low, with heavy reliance on imports and a severe shortage of high-end chips.With the passage of the US CHIP Act, the situation will only worsen.Only by strengthening technological research and development and increasing the domestic substitution rate of chips can the problem be fundamentally resolved.

In this context, Wenmixingguang’s R&D team focuses on the field of high-power laser chips, focusing on domestically produced high-end laser chips, and is committed to achieving internationalization of technology and localization of manufacturing.

Wenmi Xingguang’s R&D team has deep technical expertise in optical communications, optoelectronic systems, and photonic integration, and boasts extensive experience in laser chip design and processing.The company is developing core laser chips for L3 and higher-level autonomous driving lidars. Its core products include high-saturation-power 1550nm gain chips and high-power 1550nm FP laser chips. The company also offers components in various packaging formats, including TO and butterfly packages, tailored to customer needs.

Wenmixingguang can also develop customized optical chips according to customer needs.

The company has now completed multiple rounds of chip tape-outs, sent samples to multiple downstream manufacturers for testing, and has achieved small-scale mass production.