Agilictech's Dr. Haipeng Fu: vehicle mounted segment and 5G market will continue to improve in the future

Recently, Dr. Haipeng Fu, CEO of Agilictech (Tianjin), said in an exclusive interview with this website that he will continue to be optimistic about the market related to the in-vehicle field in 2023.

Agilictech Co., Ltd, founded in early 2021, is a professional fabless semiconductor design, sales and after-sales service integration company. The company's technology focuses on the direction of RF integrated circuits, focusing on providing the ultimate broadband RF chips and solutions to achieve localized substitution.

The year 2023 belongs to a more critical year for Agilictech, because the past two years were affected by the epidemic, slowing down the pace of customer expansion, basically focusing on product research and development, so this year, with the epidemic completely open, the company will also accelerate the expansion of the market and customers.

Figure1: Haipeng Fu, CEO of Aglictech

It is reported that the target markets of Agilictech's four major product lines cover the Internet of Things, automotive, industrial and communication fields, etc., and many of the products have already been successfully mass-produced and launched in the market.

Firstly, in the field of wireless communications, the company has a variety of Wi-Fi 6 FEMs for routers, APs, gateways and other equipment, Agilictech's self-developed Wi-Fi FEM chip performance indicators are better than those of competing products, and its innovative compact linear technology can significantly reduce the cost of high-power PA, to meet the customer's demand for the ultimate cost-effective products.

In the field of mobile communications, the company has long been actively involved in the small base station market, and has launched a self-developed PLL clock circuit chip this year, the clock source is equivalent to the heart of the system, through the generation of a stable frequency of the clock oscillation signals, to ensure that the various modules in the system can operate stably and cooperate with each other. It is currently in the customer verification stage.

It is worth mentioning that Agilictech is one of the very few companies in China that can provide technologies including voltage-controlled oscillators, PLLs, DDS and clock buffers. Compared with competitors, Agilictech's self-developed PLL clock circuit chips are higher in performance and integration, and can be used in communication base stations, automotive and industrial applications, etc. The company will continue to launch related field programs.

In the Internet of Things applications, Agilictech is also cooperating with a number of manufacturers, such as smart security, smart doorbell and other applications. By combining millimeter wave radar with security cameras, and utilizing the millimeter wave radar's anti-jamming and all-weather advantages to detect the target's location, the camera can be turned on in time to detect and track human activities in real time with high accuracy.

In addition, Agilictech is also actively expanding into the industrial field, and has successfully introduced UWB ultra-wideband centimeter-grade high-precision positioning solutions in underground tunnels and offshore oilfields, providing self-developed RF front-end chips and solutions for real-time positioning and trajectory tracking to protect the safety of staff.

Agilictech was founded with the hope of providing customers with not only localized alternatives, but more importantly, realizing a true "China Core" through its own technological research and breakthroughs. The essence of domestic substitution should not only be low price substitution, but also based on the product itself, through innovative technology, function and design to gain market share. At the same time, through cooperation with eco-partners, to provide customers with more added value in the solution. And through continuous technological innovation, we will bring customers the most cutting-edge products and better performance.

In the next three years, Agilictech will continue to invest more R&D efforts in the areas of clock/frequency source, Wi-Fi FEM, 6G millimeter-wave and millimeter-wave radar chips, and provide world-leading RF chips as well as systematic system-level solutions. At the same time, we will provide customers with more diversified product choices through a diversified product line layout, and work with more eco-partners to provide customers with greater support in terms of cost control and time-to-market.

The core team of Agilictech is composed of senior experts from top semiconductor design companies and research institutes at home and abroad. Agilictech's product-related core technologies and IPs are all self-developed, the R&D cycle and product costs are independently controllable, and the performance of the products is synchronized with the international cutting-edge technology routes to continuously improve and create value for our customers.

The company was awarded the only Grand Prize in the Overseas Talents Entrepreneurship Competition of the 1st Tianjin "Haihe Talents" Entrepreneurship Competition, and has a complete technology chain of product customization, design R&D and solution development, as well as an international first-class test platform for RF chips and RF front-end modules. Team members have more than 15 years of IC R&D management experience and design accumulation, as well as a variety of silicon-based and III-V process applications and product development experience. Currently, the company has launched a number of chip series products and total solutions, and has applied for a number of independent intellectual property rights.

Dr. Haipeng Fu, CEO of Agilictech, has been engaged in RF IC R&D for 15 years, published 75 papers in top international conferences and journals, holds more than 60 invention patents, presided over key R&D program projects, Natural Science Foundation and other projects, and achieved important original results in RF phase-locked loops, millimeter-wave terahertz source detection and other methods. He has successfully developed domestic MB-OFDM UWB RF front-end, software radio RF front-end, and 5G millimeter wave front-end.

At this stage, through the combination of direct sales and distribution sales model, Agilictech can not only maintain close contact with downstream well-known brand customers, but also make full use of the sales and service channels of distributors to promote the products to more downstream customers, increase the market share of the products, and broaden the scope of coverage of the sales of the products. The company focuses on the direction of RF chips and microsystems, is committed to the pursuit of excellence in quality, iterative breakthroughs and continuous innovation, and is oriented to the needs of the market and customers to provide customers with the most appropriate products and solutions. In the future, Agilictech will continue to strive to become a world-class RF chip and microsystems design company.