Recently, 3D machine vision processing AI chip and solution provider: Yinniu Microelectronics completed more than 500 million yuan A round of financing. The investors of this round are Hefei Industrial Investment, precision Capital (lead investment), and Tianyu Digital Division. This round of financing is mainly used to accelerate the research and development of a new generation of chips and modules, the research and development of product solutions in new areas, and the development and construction of teams.

About Yinniu Microelectronics

Yinniu Microelectronics is a high-tech enterprise focusing on 3D binocular stereo vision and multi-sensor fusion vision processing + artificial intelligence chips and product design. Its self-developed series of chips has the world’s leading 3D visual perception processing engine, and is the world’s only single-chip integrated 3D visual perception, AI artificial intelligence, SLAM real-time positioning and mapping system chip. The company is committed to becoming the leader and ecological builder of the global 3D machine vision era.

The company has subsidiaries and branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Israel. Inuitive, an Israeli subsidiary, is one of the first companies in the world to develop an on-chip 3D depth perception engine, with more than 10 years of deep experience in 3D depth vision, complex system-level chip design, low power, optics, embedded system software, and edge computing.

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At present, Yinniu’s chip and product solutions have been applied globally in leading enterprise products in many cutting-edge application fields such as pan-robotics, meta-universe, consumer electronics, logistics drones, and 3D scanning. In the future, Yinniu will help the global intelligent terminal equipment to achieve the upgrade from 2D to 3D, and strive to become the world’s leading semiconductor enterprise in the era of 3D vision.

After the end of this round of financing, Yinniu decided to settle its global headquarters in Hefei, which integrates global strategic management, research and development center, sales operation center and supply chain management center. The company plans to establish an international first-class high-end chip and artificial intelligence product research and development center in Hefei, and actively cooperate with major universities and research institutes in Hefei to absorb and cultivate global outstanding high-tech research and development talents. The headquarters will bring together hundreds of excellent engineers to form a team full of innovation drive and vitality, and inject strong impetus into the development of China’s integrated circuit industry.

In the future, the company will deeply cultivate Hefei, form advantageous linkage with Hefei integrated circuit, artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent manufacturing and other industrial clusters, and jointly build a highly competitive industrial chain cluster through open cooperation. Fully tap the advantages of industrial resources and talents in Hefei, closely connect upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, strengthen industrial collaborative innovation, enhance the overall competitiveness, and make important contributions to promoting regional economic development and industrial upgrading.

Investors say

Jiang Xin, general manager of Hefei Industrial Investment Group, said: “Yinniu Microelectronics is the world’s leading SOC chip and module manufacturer of visual perception, AI, SLAM and other functions. The international team combined with China and Israel not only has a strong R & D strength, but also has a strong industrialization capability. The products have been verified and recognized by many customers at home and abroad. In the future, there are good application prospects in the fields of robotics, meta-universe, 3D interaction, intelligent cockpit, intelligent manufacturing, etc. Hefei CII Group has been insisting on hard technology industry investment for many years, in the integrated circuit, new display, new energy vehicles, biomedicina, artificial intelligence and other fields have layout, Yinniu Microelectronics is CII Group and Feixi County through investment introduced another integrated circuit design enterprise, the future will help enterprises in Feixi to take root, continue to grow bigger and stronger!”

Cui Yong, founding partner of Precision Capital, said: “With an experienced global technical team, Yinniu Microelectronics has successfully built the world’s leading vision and artificial intelligence chip and module solutions based on binocular stereo vision after more than 10 years of product development and iteration. The company’s products have obvious advantages compared with traditional binocular solutions in terms of performance, power consumption, volume, etc., visual information as an important data input in the future multi-modal large model path, Yinniu Microelectronics has made full preparations to meet customer needs from product definition to industry solution design, and has a promising future in the increasing requirements of edge artificial intelligence. Precision Capital focuses on core technology equity investment mainly in semiconductors, and Yinniu Microelectronics’ product development path is in line with our industry expectations for science and technology development. We will also adhere to the long-term investment concept of empowering enterprises and growing together, and fully support the innovative development of Yinniu Microelectronics!”