The three major swordsmen in the Yangtze River storage, Hefei Changxin, and Fujian Jinhua have recently been operating frequently. They have invested and expanded to help develop and mass-produce memory chips. The investment of hundreds of billions of yuan is only to fill the "shortcomings" in the field of storage, and build new "shields" at the national information security level. The continuous fermentation of the ZTE Incident and the strengthening of the US review of Huawei and other countertops have made the domestic IC industry aware of the importance of ecology. The storage industry accounts for more than one-third of the global IC industry. China has invested heavily in building storage production lines, opening up enormous opportunities for storage controller manufacturers.
Regarding the importance of the memory control chip, Professor Deng Xiancan, a participant in the design of China's first transistor and a pioneering expert in China's semiconductor field, has a relatively popular image: “The hard disk is like a warehouse for data storage, the memory is a room, and the controller is Gates and gatekeepers; gates and gatekeepers must be Chinese, information can be safe.†To master the commanding heights in the field of chips, not only design tools (EDA), intellectual property (IP), production processes, materials, software, etc. With the overall layout, breakthroughs have been made in general-purpose key chips such as processors (CPUs) and programmable devices (FPGAs), and the development of dedicated ICs such as video and audio, signal processing, memory controllers, and communication protocols must be pursued. In line with the country’s efforts to build a memory industry, as an integral part of the industry chain, competition in the field of memory controllers should not be overlooked.
Why is the controller chip so important? As we all know, in the field of information storage applications, a large number of core controller chips covering memory cards, U-disks/HDDs, SSDs, and even large-data storage devices and server high-speed buses all require storage controllers to complete related storage functions. Take SSDs as an example. SSDs are now standard on computers. The core of SSDs is the controller and memory. The memory is the standard unit of information storage. The pursuit of high-density storage of data, and the storage controller, is to manage the memory. And through the computer bus and the main chip to achieve data read / write complex function chip, in fact it is a computer interface core technology and memory chip management technology on-chip system-on-chip (SoC).
In the storage application market, not only is the memory "along with people", but also the storage controller field is mostly owned by international giants. In addition to flash memory manufacturers such as Samsung, Intel, Toshiba, and Sandisk, which have their own storage controllers, third parties Storage controller manufacturers SMI, Marvell, etc. also occupy a large market share. In order to achieve information security in China, these chips must be localized. Some domestic companies are also investing in the field. The first time that Hangzhou Huasheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (Sage Micro), which took the lead in rushing out of the company, has gathered more than a decade of achievements, designed and industrialized a series of chips with independent intellectual property rights, including a dozen or so Models of SD/eMMC/CF memory card controllers, solid-state hard disks, and computer interface bridge/hard disk array controller chips continue to achieve success in domestic and foreign markets.
Zhou Bin, vice president and chief operating officer of Hua Wei Micro, told the reporter that the controller chip involves multiple factors such as CPU, interface, IP, and algorithm. On the one hand, Huayin Micro has accumulated rich intellectual property rights in computer interfaces and solid-state storage. (IP) and algorithms such as flash management algorithms, error correction algorithms, encryption and decryption algorithms, IP accumulation from SD/MMC to USB, physical layer from IDE to SATA, PCIe and NVMe to protocol layer, etc. The single authorization fees for these IPs in the international market will exceed hundreds of thousands of US dollars, and the Hua Wei micro team has devoted more than ten years to the development of these autonomous IPs. On the other hand, Hua Wei Micro also achieved chip-level protection of data information security through core encryption algorithm technology. "These IPs are not only unique to Huawei, but can also be provided to customers in the authorized manner if there are customer needs at home and abroad," Zhou Bin stressed.
In addition to the memory controller chips, Huawei Technologies has gained international and domestic market recognition in the field of memory bridge chips. Through the acquisition of more than 20 years of IniTIo (crystal quantity electronics) to improve the market configuration, because the three major hard disk manufacturers are customers of IniTIo chips, Huasheng Micro's shipments in the field of storage bridge chips are continuously increasing, becoming the second largest successor to Taiwan's Cheung and Chih microelectronics. International mainstream bridge chip manufacturers.
At the same time, in addition to providing autonomous controllable storage control chips and bridging chips, Huasheng Micro also has two-pronged integration of supply chain, development of controllable and safe domestic all-solid-state hard disks and large-capacity solid-state storage board cards and other standard and customized system products, such as The 2.5-inch, 10TB world's highest density hard disk and SSDs with distinctive applications developed in the previous two years meet the deep application requirements of users in related industries. It is reported that various encryption storage and encryption self-destruction programs designed by Hua Weiwei according to actual needs have become the mainstream choice for safe storage in all countries. In order to meet the needs of localized applications, Huasheng Micro also cooperated with customers in platforms such as Godson, Shen Wei, and Feiteng, and won the application development of operating systems such as Kirin, Yinhe Kirin, and other operating systems. In addition, it cooperated with customer applications to launch a series of encrypted hard disks and partitioned hard disks. Self-destructed hard disk. As a result, Hua Wei Microelectronics completed the transformation of China's top storage controller chip, module and system provider.
Hua Weiwei is not content with it. Zhou Bin said: "Hua Weiwei is an exquisite cultivator in this segment of the industry, focusing on the storage controller chip and computer/server interface chip market, and the realization of localization is definitely beneficial to the mission of information security in China. In a nutshell, it is still important to survive in a competitive international environment, to treat any competition with reason, friendship and equality, and to use the perseverance and steadfast efforts to gain the trust of customers as the foundation. It is 'passion for innovation and hard work for the core'."
Continuous testAfter all, the proposition that develops the chip all the time is to continue to iterate, and the memory controller is also out of the ordinary, and faces the challenge of "resonance" with market demand.
Zhou Bin said that on the one hand, from magnetic media storage to solid-state hard drives, from RAM, ROM to 3D NNAND, etc., the storage media change faster and faster. At the same time, a part of the flash memory plants themselves as controllers bring new pressure to third-party storage controller manufacturers. On the other hand, with the development of technologies such as Internet of Things, AI, and big data, the demand for customized products has become higher and higher, and the storage interfaces have become more diversified, from traditional SATA and SAS to PCIe interface chips. In addition, higher speeds, lower power consumption, and higher security requirements increasingly place higher demands on the controller's CPU and algorithms. This requires the controller manufacturers to continue to plan and layout in advance, ready to use "ammunition" to play.
From the point of view of the market, the development of the industry requires constant "institutional rights." Zhou Bin analyzed that the current global SSD controller is 200 million, and the conventional disk storage controller is about 600 million. The total demand is about 800 million, and the demand for SSD controllers will continue to rise in the future. From the perspective of the controller interface, there are traditional mainstream IDE, SATA, SAS controller interface chips, and PCIe interface chips that are rapidly growing. At present, PCIe accounts for 30% of the SSD market, SATA interfaces account for 60%, and SAS interfaces. About 10%. In the future, as the demand for big data and server applications continues to grow, the proportion of PCIe interfaces will increase to meet more and more data acceleration and cache functions.
Focusing on future application changes and market trends, Hua Wei Micro will not only focus on the domestic and foreign markets in the field of storage controllers, but will also start “incremental†plans for server storage controller chips and large data hard disk array controllers. Zhou Bin believes that this is not only adapting to the technological change needs of the domestic big data and server industries, but also serving to meet the localization needs of memory and servers. In the field of high-performance hard disk controllers and hard disk array controllers, Huasheng Micro will continue to expand.
Future opportunitiesWith China’s IC chip imports reaching more than US$200 billion and exceeding oil, Hua Weiwei has become one of the few IC design companies that exports Chinese chips to the world. Seagate and Toshiba, the world’s leading hard drive companies, are all customers of Hua Wei Micro. It is both a privilege and a spur.
The recent ZTE Incident and Huawei's investigation into the United States triggered collective reflections on the domestic IC industry. It can be said that the domestic IC industry has been advancing in the face of artillery. Today, the artillery has become increasingly fierce, and the domestic IC industry is ecologically weak. It takes many years of investment and social culture and education systems that do not follow the trend, innovation, adventure, and fault tolerance. follow up.
In this regard, Zhou Bin pointed out that the general trend of IC industry transfer to China will not change, the country has the largest application market, copy is not enough, must sink to the application scene, continue to accumulate, and constantly break through, a version of the potential to dive Do it. At the same time, it should be noted that the chip is in the upstream of the industrial chain, from the chip to the hardware and software integration, from the reference design to the customer application, the chain is very long, and the cycle from development to mass production to the market is also very long. Planning to target deep diving. At the same time, it is also hoped that the country will do top-level design in terms of policies, standards, and funds, and constantly optimize the environment.
Nowadays, the domestic industrial environment is constantly migrating. Smartphones are speeding up the reshuffle, and new formats such as 5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and blockchain will create new forces and new formats. Industry insiders once pointed out that once ZTE is once again hit with precision, industry players can only truly adapt their performance to industrial applications and can get out of the lab to achieve mass production. They can replace imported chips on a large scale to help domestic systems manufacturers unwind their sleeves around their necks. On the yoke. This is an industrial chain that requires tens of thousands of chip design companies to be able to complete. Only tens of thousands of design companies can support the investment of huge semiconductor production lines. In turn, the semiconductor production line can only have enough meters. "Casserole" forms a virtuous circle.
In fact, in the field of memory controllers, Huayi Microelectronics began to be based in China but not limited to the domestic market, but directly entered the international competition. Although it has experienced difficulties and obstacles, in the long run, this is the inevitable development of China's chip development. The situation, early adaptation, early participation, can get more lasting patience and stronger competitiveness.
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