TMC’s Chip Chosen by Chinese Automotive Brand: Super Automotive Chip Deepens Industry Ecosystem

TMC’s security chip has recently successfully chosen by a well-known Chinese high-end automotive brand, marking the installation of Chinese security chips led by TMC’s chips into the domestic passenger vehicle market for the first time. This not only means that China's homegrown chip manufacturers have made important breakthroughs on the road to fully grasp key technologies, but also represents another landmark achievement of Guoxin Micro’s "super automotive chip" to boost the efficiency of the local automotive industry chain.

The shortage of automotive chips continues to be under the spotlight. China has once again fallen into a dilemma during this shortage crisis. Relevant data show that leading foreign semiconductor companies account for more than 90% of the Chinese market. Every year 28 million vehicles are sold in China, but China’s automotive semiconductor industry accounts for less than 5% in the globe and imported key parts make up 80%-90%. It is now extremely urgent to break through the bottleneck of the industry and accelerate the completion of the independent supply system of automotive chips. In this context, domestic IC companies with independent research and development capabilities have attracted much attention, bearing the expectations of the local automotive industry to achieve chip "freedom”.

"As a leading security chip design company, TMC has always been committed to shortening the gap of core technologies with the international advanced levels, and promoting semiconductor industry development in China so as to move towards a strong global intelligent manufacturing powerhouse." The head of TMC’s Security Chip Department said, “Regarding the intelligent vehicles, TMC has been making efforts to mitigate the dependence on foreign products. This success proves once again that we are not fighting on the paper TMC's path to indigenous innovation is feasible and the security chip developed by Chinese for automobiles can completely replace imported ones."

For the sake of safety and stability, the T9 series, a member of TMC’s "super automotive chip”, supports both Chinese and international mainstream algorithms to ensure user identity authentication and data security. Meanwhile, this series of products has obtained AEC-Q100, CC EAL6, ISCCC EAL4, and OSCCA Level 2 certificates, bagging the fullest set of the qualifications now in China. It has great advantages in algorithm power consumption, algorithm performance, security qualification and security performance.

The application platform equipped with T9 will fully protect smart vehicles from the system hardware level. The trusted mechanism ensuring safe storage, safe operation and safe connection provides closed-loop services ranging from communication network security to smart terminal security and then to cloud server security, eventually building a “Great Wall of Chips" for information security to protect user privacy, keys and other information from being hijacked or stolen during the network transmission process thus achieving a safe and worry-free smart mobility across all scenarios.

Now this series of products has been recognized by many domestic top-tier automakers, and achieved substantial commercialization progress in many fields such as T-BOX, digital keys, intelligent driving, and on-board storage, alleviating the concerns about the auto chip shortage to a certain extent. For example, in the T-BOX field, TMC’s products have been selected and installed by commercial vehicle enterprises. For blue-tooth digital keys, the cloud-vehicle-human solution built by TMC and Ingeek has been successfully launched. Regarding the eSIM, the automotive-grade eSIM products co-developed by TMC and a well-known card issuer is being tested by automakers. In addition, TMC has introduced products and solutions in tandem for V2X and OBD for China VI emission standards, among others. A broad “super automotive chip” ecosystem is being gradually shaped as TMC is fully accelerating the R&D and application of various products.

As the cornerstone of smart vehicles, security chips stringent requirements on the technical threshold, research and development level, and supply cycle. It is not easy to achieve full replacement and grow stronger quickly. Engaged in security chips for two decades, TMC is highly recognized in such fields as financial services, telecom, government and IoT. With cumulative shipments of over 10 billion units, TMC is fully prepared to address various challenges during the domestic substitution process. Next, TMC will continue to increase R&D spending and give full play to the role of innovation, incubate hardcore projects with cutting-edge technologies and forward-looking visions, and collaborate with the upstream and downstream along the industry chain to jointly build the “super automotive chip” highland and propel China to enter the golden age of the intelligent vehicles.