XINERGY: an IGBT and carbide dark horse running out from Xiamen

XINERGY Microelectronics (referred to as "XINERGY") was established in Xiamen Torch Park in 2018. It is a professional semiconductor chip and scheme design company dedicated to the research, development, design and application of third generation semiconductors. In recent years, the company has been developing strongly, launching strategic cooperation with XIAMEN TUNGSTEN in 2019, the first isolated gate driver IC, smooth mass production of IGBT single tube and module in 2020, the official listing of GaN MOSFET and SiC MOSFET devices in 2021, and obtaining the first round of equity financing from state-owned funds in 2022.

At present, the main customers of XINERGY are: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN, DIODES (US-Taiwan Semiconductor), GOOGLE, COOLERMASTER, SKYWORTH, CHANGHONG, KELONG, HUALIAN ELECTRONICS, AVADA, TOBTAK, PROTEK, etc.; The main cooperative agents are: WALSIN TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd., HESHUO, FU-LINK, INFELL, HANGYU TONGDA, etc.

The company's target market end customers are distributed in industrial application fields such as frequency converter, electric welding machine, photovoltaic inverter, uninterruptible power supply, water pump, fan, charging pile, automobile main control and electronic control. Before the brand is established at the beginning of the period and there are a lot of achievements, the company plans to rely on the development of brushless motor control schemes for new energy vehicle motors, pumps, fans, ceiling fans and other applications in XIAMEN TUNGSTEN System, and cooperate closely with various project companies as soon as possible to assist them in product development and establish corporate brand and popularity. Secondly, with the help of the relationship resources between XIAMEN TUNGESTEN and the fund, it will enter the supply chain of benchmark enterprises with certain popularity in the industry, thus affecting the use of large and medium-sized enterprises in the corresponding industries and increasing the market proportion.

Make full use of the functions of the controller solution provider in the company, and import the company's components products (IGBT single tube, module and driver IC) into the market directly in the customer solution development and design. And through the agent with existing projects, provide the company's corresponding products and service support, and expand sales performance. In the sales model, IGBT single tube, module and driver IC adopt direct selling and agency in parallel: the direct selling part is responsible for the regional business in Fujian, South China, East China and Central China; The agency is managed by South China, East China and Central China. IGBT chips are only sold directly.

Figure1: front desk of Xinergy Microelectronics

At present, the whole company is in the stage of steady development. With the blessing of a high-quality R&D team, the products have achieved breakthrough results in recent years. After three years of industrial R&D, mass production improvement and market verification, 36 patents have been put forward. The products cover isolated gate drive IC, IGBT single tube, module, GaN/SiC JBS, MOS devices, etc. The productivity and quality stability of the products are gradually increasing.

After the products have bear fruits, company will actively seek strategic investment partners, introduces supply chain and customer resources, broadens the market layout and opens up product popularity. In 2022, XINERGY series products have appeared at domestic and international conferences such as "2022 China Electric Wit Manufacturing and Innovation Application and Motor Industry Chain Exchange Conference", "2022 Asia-Pacific International Power Products and Technology Exhibition" and "Xiamen Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Application Exhibition". IGBT series products provide motor "heart" with the advantages of high performance and high reliability, which strongly contributes to the development of new energy, industry, transportation and intelligent manufacturing.

In 2022, XINERGY completed the first round of equity financing, and Chuanghe Xincai (Xiamen) Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) ("Chuanghe Xincai") became the second largest shareholder of the Company. This round of capital injection unites national funds, local government guidance funds and well-known listed enterprises, and jointly promotes XINERGY to open a new chapter of leap-forward innovation and development.

It is reported that in the future, XINERGY will continue to focus on the new energy market, take photovoltaics and new energy vehicles as the main development direction, and on the basis of continuously improving the 650V/1200V IGBT product line, complete the mass production of 1700V products, and complete the batch launch of 1200V SiC MOSFET products to the market, promote the planning of 1700 SiC MOSFET product line, and develop multi-channel isolation drive IC conforming to the vehicle regulations (AEC-Q101)

At present, the company's products cover a wide range of power device product lines. First, its own products IGBT\ SiC-SBD, SiC-Mos,\ SJ-MOS\ SGT-MOS have complete types and specifications, and secondly, resistors\ electrolysis\ capacitors\ diodes\ triodes\ VD-MOS\ have related supporting supply chains to meet the needs of customers across the whole line.

At present, there are three products promoted by XINERGY

• IGBT Series

650V IGBT single tube products, 1200V IGBT single tube products, power integration module (PIM), intelligent power module (IPM)

Trench structure + field cut-off technology (Trench + FS) is adopted. With the special design of wafer cell and terminal field plate, IGBT has the characteristics of high reliability and excellent consistency of electrical parameters. It is suitable for industrial frequency converter, servo motor, UPS power supply, inverter and other fields.

• SiC Series

SiC MOSFET

Excellent gate oxide reliability; Extremely low switching loss and conduction loss; Drive compatible with silicon-based MOSFET and IGBT (+ 18V); Adequate short circuit and avalanche resistance. It is used in vehicle OBC, inverter, charging module, rail transit, new energy power generation, motor drive, energy storage system and other fields.

• Gate driving IC

XN2811

A single-channel isolated gate driver compatible with optocoupler has better common-mode transient immunity, longer service life (better reliability), wider temperature range, higher consistency of propagation delay parameters between chips and more cost advantages than traditional optocouplers. Moreover, pin2pin is compatible with the mainstream gate-driven optocoupler series products in the market, and its package and current drive are consistent with them, so it is the best product to replace the photoelectric isolated gate driver at present. It is used in motor driver, high voltage DC-DC converter UPS, frequency converter, electric vehicle (EV), hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), solar inverter and other fields.

Figure 2: XN2811

At present, the shipment volume, delivery date, unit price and minimum order quantity of the company's 3 IGBT main products are as follows:

• IGBT 650V/75A single tube

XD075H065CX1S3

Delivery date: Spot 1 week with wafer delivery 4-6 weeks without wafer 16-18 weeks

Unit price: 11 yuan

Shipments: 300K/month

Minimum order quantity: 1K

• IGBT 1200V/15A Module

XP015PJE120 AT1B1

Delivery date: 1 week in stock, 4-6 weeks without wafer delivery, 16-18 weeks

Unit price; 65 yuan/pcs

Shipments: 50K/month

Minimum package: 32pcs

• IGBT 1200V/25A Module

XP025PJE120 AT1B2

Delivery date: Spot 1 week with wafer delivery 4-6 weeks without wafer 16-18 weeks

Unit price 93 yuan/pcs

Shipments: 50K/month

Minimum package: 20pcs

Figure 3: The meeting rooms

In addition, the company's Changhong development is also inseparable from the support of the technical team. The following is the introduction of the main person in charge of the technical team:

Chief Cai (CTO): Dr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, internationally renowned semiconductor expert, Xiamen Taiwan Distinguished Expert, Taiwan Top Ten Outstanding Engineers; Former senior technical director of Taiwan Industrial Research Institute, he has been deeply involved in semiconductor industry for more than 30 years, and has more than 40 patents in China, the United States and Taiwan.

Chief Xu (Vice President of R&D): Master of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; The former senior technical director of TSMC has accumulated rich experience in power device research and development for nearly 30 years, and has more than 60 patents.

Chief li (Vice President of R&D) Master of National Tsinghua University, Taiwan; Former senior technical director of well-known semiconductor enterprises in Taiwan, he has been engaged in research and development of integrated circuit systems for more than 20 years and has more than 10 patents.

Figure 4: Chef liu of XINERGY Microelectronics

In the future, XINERGY will continue to benchmark international first-class brands, focus on high-end semiconductor power devices and third-generation semiconductor products, take domestic substitution as its corporate mission, adhere to the customer-centered concept, and hope to further cooperate with domestic system application companies in depth, break foreign monopolies together, and form real combat effectiveness for domestic system manufacturers!

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