Today, as the level of intelligence continues to increase, sensors are becoming more and more important. The sensor is an important nerve antenna in the world of the Internet of Things, and its application range covers all walks of life around the world. At present, countries all over the world attach great importance to the development of sensor technology.

Today's society is entering the era of ¡°perception¡±, and the demand for non-digital chips such as sensors is growing rapidly. According to the prediction of BCC Research, a well-known foreign market research institution, from 2016 to 2021, the global sensor market has a compound growth rate of 11%. In 2021, the market size is close to 200 billion US dollars, and the market space is broad. In recent years, the domestic sensor market has continued to grow rapidly. In 2015, the size of China's sensor market was about 120 billion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 180 billion yuan in 2020.

At the China-EU Internet of Things Wuxi Summit held on September 6, 2019, Chen Dapeng, deputy director of the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Wuxi Internet of Things Innovation Promotion Center, said that the characteristics of sensor customization and differentiation have been reduced to some extent. The standardization and scale of sensor manufacturing, the future development of integrated circuits with integrated circuits will become an important trend in sensor manufacturing in China.

Although the sensor is a subdivision of integrated circuits, the industrial characteristics of the two are quite different. Compared with integrated circuits, sensors are highly customized from design to manufacturing, and require high demands on product developers, resulting in long product development cycles. At the same time, sensor manufacturing materials are numerous, processing techniques are complex, and standardized technology components The lack of automation leading to package testing has affected the scale and standardization of sensor manufacturing.

Chen Dapeng said that the next step is to integrate with the integrated circuit industry through design tools, model expression, testability setting and process integration. It is an important development direction and mainstream trend of sensor manufacturing in China.

In the design tool, promote the integration of MEMS and integrated circuit Ansys, Candence custom simulation platform to achieve integrated design; in the model expression simulation, gradually tend to express the expression of integrated circuits, through the establishment of sensor manufacturing IP model, to achieve scale Mass production; digital test method is adopted in the testability setting, digital mechanical circuit is used to generate analog physical mechanism, and mechanism transformation is realized. Finally, in process integration, sensor 3D packaging technology is actively developed to realize chip-to-processor integrated packaging. .

In general, in terms of industrial development, integrated circuits are in the upper reaches of the entire electronic information industry chain. The development of integrated circuits is expected to greatly promote China's electronic information industry to move towards the mid-to-high end of the value chain. As an autonomous input device for intelligent equipment to sense external environmental information, the sensor plays a role in technical traction and scene upgrade for the application of intelligent equipment, and will benefit preferentially in the industrialization wave.

Huawei will develop radar built-in sensor ecosystem for autonomous vehicles

According to Reuters, Huawei¡¯s rotating chairman Xu Zhijun said that in the future, Huawei will build a millimeter-wave radar based on 5G technology and develop laser radar to solve the cost and performance problems of its current smart cars.

Xu Zhijun said that Huawei will build an "ecosystem" for on-board sensors. ¡°Huawei wants to build a smart driving platform. Through this platform, we will build a broad ecosystem and finally promote the automation of the entire automotive industry through open cooperation.¡±

Currently, global automakers and technology companies have invested billions of dollars in autonomous vehicles. However, industry insiders pointed out that it takes several years for autonomous vehicles to reach the "L4" level, the fully automatic driving standard. In the "L4" standard, autonomous vehicles can handle all aspects of driving in the most unmanned situations.

Millimeter wave radar and lidar sensors are used by autopilot car manufacturers to collect information about the surroundings of the vehicle. However, Huawei did not provide a specific product development schedule.

Zhengzhou builds a smart sensor industry town to promote the development of smart sensor industry

Zhengzhou City plans to build a 3 to 4 square kilometers of China (Zhengzhou) Intelligent Sensing Valley in the High-tech Zone.

According to the website of Zhengzhou High-tech Zone, recently, the final demonstration meeting of China (Zhengzhou) Intelligent Sensing Valley Industry Development Plan was held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice President of Tsinghua University, You Zheng, and Professor of Dalian University of Technology, Tang Yu'an, and other experts gathered around the planning. Suggest and improve suggestions for improvement.

Professor Tang Yanan of Dalian University of Technology, Yang Yunchun, Chairman of Beijing Naiwei Technology Co., Ltd., Chen Qingsong, Researcher of 704 Institute of Aerospace Jiuyuan, and Mu Zhenzhou, Managing Partner of Muhua Capital, attended the seminar as judges.

The planning review meeting pointed out that the China (Zhengzhou) Intelligent Sensing Valley Industry Development Plan was prepared, and the top-level design of Zhengzhou Intelligent Sensing Industry was developed to define the guiding ideology, overall goal, strategic positioning, development direction and development path of Zhengzhou Intelligent Sensing Valley. The development of power, development steps, leading the high-quality development of Zhengzhou intelligent sensing industry has a significant role in promoting.

At the beginning of 2019, after public bidding, Zhengzhou High-tech Zone officially entrusted the CCID Research Institute, directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, to prepare the China (Zhengzhou) Intelligent Sensing Valley Industry Development Plan. The plan mainly includes six parts: one is the background and trend of smart sensor industry; the other is the local industry foundation; the third is development ideas and goals; the fourth is development focus and path; the fifth is major engineering and application; the sixth is supporting policies and safeguard measures. .

The plan proposes to use the Zhengzhou High-tech Zone as the core to plan a smart sensor industry town of 3 to 4 square kilometers, to create smart sensor materials, intelligent sensor systems, and intelligent sensor terminals ¡°three industrial clusters¡± to develop environmental sensors and smart terminal sensors. The ¡°three characteristic industrial chains¡± of automobile sensors promote the scale, specialization, differentiation and high-end development of the smart sensor industry in Zhengzhou.

Expert voice:

The sensor is a sub-sector of the intelligent manufacturing industry, and the industry is very energetic.

According to the previous report of Mames Consulting, in November 2018, the ¡°First World Sensor Conference¡± was opened in Zhengzhou, and the experts from the conference published relevant opinions:

¡°Zhengzhou High-tech Zone is very supportive of the construction of the base, and the smart sensor industry will be a supporting industry in Zhengzhou.¡± Jiang Zhuangde, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that sensors are a segment of the intelligent manufacturing industry, a segment of the market, all-encompassing, no It is not used, and it has important applications in many manufacturing industries such as automobiles, machinery, and aerospace. The industrial diffusion energy is very large. Jiang Zhuangde analysis, Zhengzhou's development in the sensor industry, in the middle of the country, has a "post-development advantage", both the experience of developed areas can be used for reference, but also full of hunger for funds, technology, talent, is the time to force.

Zhou Liwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, suggested that Zhengzhou should develop a sensor industry development plan for 10 to 20 years, attracting relevant talents from both the domestic and the world. At the same time, it should focus on local talent training and jointly train scientific research talents with some universities at home and abroad. ¡°Zhengzhou develops the sensor industry very smartly, just like Wuhan is doing ¡®optical valley¡¯.¡± Zhou Liwei said.