In 2018, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala featured an impressive scene: the stage through virtual reality presents the daily life of the local ethnic minorities, the mobile LED screens freely combined showed many stunning scenes, from long table banquet of Miao nationality to firework dragon dance, even a huge "fu" character, which gave new vitality to the traditional culture of the nation.
In addition to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, many major local TV stations have also increased investment in the stage display this year. Behind these breath-taking and amazing display devices, there are products from a high-tech company named “Chipone Technology”. It is understood that the vast majority of LED screens used throughout the Spring Festival Gala stages held by CCTV and other local TV stations are equipped with a new model of the latest ICN2050 display driver chip developed by Chipone Technology. The theory of the LED display is to rely on controlling and driving the chip to generate color gradation and light and shade changes. The so-called "a good chip equips a good screen", through a high-quality chip can ensure the stability of the display equipment and high-quality operation. The ICN2050 is a PWM IC product created by Chipone Technology to meet the LED display challenges, has an excellent low-gray display effect and can be used to produce high-quality LED displays.
"Lighting up" the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is only a small scale test for Chipone Technology's technical strength. As early as September 2015, the large LED screen used in the Tiananmen military parade, which is driven by three million LED display chips from Chipone Technology, demonstrates the strength of China's “core”. In 2016, the “ray of light” of North also flashed onto the world stage. In that year, the company acquired iML, the power management IC design company affiliated to the IC design company, EXAR, to further consolidate its competitive advantages in the field of analog mixed-signal and power management products, and quickly achieved the No.1 market share in the global market of LED display driver and power management chips.
Beijing Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., established in 2008, is the world's leading display-control-chip overall solutions provider. It’s equipped with kernel technologies of the display panel ICs, independent intellectual property rights and the whole product line layout. Its clients cover all the major panel manufacturers in the world, including BOE, CSOT, Panda, Samsung, LG, Sharp, AUO, Innolux and so on. With years of accumulation of technology, Chipone Technology has now formed three major product lines: power management chip and driver chip for both medium and large LCDs; driver chip, touch control chip, fingerprint identification chip, power management chip and ITD chip for small LCDs; and display driving chip for large LEDs. The R&D capabilities of Chipone Technology have also been continuously recognized and supported by the State. The company has undertaken and participated in major projects of 863 program , Beijing science and technology program, 13th 5-year major national science and technology projects. In 2017, Chipone Technology undertook the sub-topics of National Science and Technology Major Projects: “The Localization of LCD Driver Design, Linear Verification and Industrialization of Gold Bump”.
At present, about one-third of the world's display panel production is concentrated in China mainland, and the domestic manufacturers have initially had the strength to compete with global panel industry leaders. As a domestic industry leader and the only overall solution provider, Chipone Technology is expected to seize the development opportunities and share the dividends brought by the panel industry development.
In October 2017, SDIC Venture Capital invested in Chipone Technology with its National Science and Technology Fund to support Chipone Technology further consolidating and strengthening its technical leadership in the field of panel display ICs. This round of funding will be mainly used to further increase R&D investment in the next generation of panel display technology.The strategic investment of National Science and Technology Fund will help Chipone Technology catch the historical opportunity of the rise of domestic panels and smart terminal industry, as well as the opportunity of industry change, further increase the R&D investment into ITD, Ultra-HD driver IC for large panels and OLED driver IC, strive to fill gaps of high-end chips in China’s panel and IC industries, and overtake the foreign competitors.