Top 25 TWS battery management ICs in the world
Time：2020.08.11
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Driven by TWS true wireless headsets, the battery management IC market suddenly became lively.
In particular, the TWS headset battery has put forward brand new technical requirements in terms of low power consumption, high withstand voltage, and high integration. This has also accelerated the technological upgrade of mainland power chip companies.
Although the power management chip market of TWS headsets is still slightly inferior to the size of the mobile power and mobile phone fast charging markets, the trend of miniaturization of TWS headsets forces the battery management chip technology to quickly upgrade and innovate.
Rising Sun Big Data and the First Mobile Phone Industry Research Institute have noticed that there are currently very few listed companies among mainland power management IC manufacturers. It is expected that with the rapid development of the TWS headset market, the battery management IC industry will also set off a wave of IPOs.
Because, TWS headset battery life and charging, power management IC is the most important part. The power management chipset includes charging chips, synchronous rectification boost converters, low dropout regulators, load switches, input overvoltage and overcurrent protection chips, and so on. Only the power management chip can ensure that TWS can charge fast while reducing damage to the headset battery.
It is reported that when charging small products such as TWS wireless headset charging, you need to increase the current to achieve the effect of fast charging. At the same time, it needs to be applied to the power management IC to quickly adjust the large current and large voltage when the device is almost full. The fast charge state is transformed into constant voltage charge, which is the trickle charge state commonly used in mobile phones, thereby reducing the damage to the battery caused by the large current and large voltage.
1. Yutai Semiconductor
ETAsolutions Yutai Semiconductor is a well-known domestic power management design company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shengbang Co., Ltd. (300661.SZ). Its excellent design team comes from Maxim's top designers to start their own businesses, focusing on the DC/DC technology field.
The company was founded in 2008, registered in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and has a R&D and operation center in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. In 2009, it was the first to launch the industry's first synchronous step-up/step-down IC, successfully occupying a place in China's power supply market.
In the TWS headset charging box market, Yutai proposed the PowerSOC design concept for the first time, through a single-chip power control chip to achieve charging, discharging, power display, protection, low-power standby and other functions, compared with MCU plus separate The charging box solution of the power control chip combination has a simpler circuit and a better cost.
Yutai Semiconductor has revenue of 258 million yuan in 2019 and achieved a net profit of 80.54 million yuan
Yutai Semiconductor promised a net profit of 60.9 million yuan in 2020, which is still lower than 2019. It should be a consideration for the epidemic.
Clients include JBL, Philips, Anker, Go out to ask, Edifier
2. Fuman Electronics
Founded in 2001, Fuman Electronics is a national high-tech enterprise engaged in the design, development, packaging, testing and sales of high-performance analog and digital-analog hybrid integrated circuits. At present, there are more than 400 kinds of IC products related to consumer fields such as power management, LED drivers, and MOSFETs. Including wireless charging, motor drive, MCU, non-volatile memory, RFID, radio frequency front-end chips, TWS headset charging box power management chip, mobile small fan power management chip, etc. (Stock code 300671)
In 2019, Fuman Electronics had revenue of 598 million yuan and realized a net profit of 36.85 million yuan. The net profit in the first half of 2020 is expected to increase by at least 76% year-on-year to approximately 21 million yuan.
3. SILERGY (Silijie)
Silicon Power was founded by a group of technology innovators with an average of 30 years of experience, focusing on the development and production of power management chips.
In 2019, Silica’s revenue was NT$ 10.8 billion (approximately 2.6 billion yuan) and net profit was NT$ 2.333 billion (approximately 560 million yuan)
Customers include QCY, Xiaomi, etc.
4. Texas Instruments (TI)
Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company dedicated to designing, manufacturing, testing, and selling analog and embedded processing chips, which are widely used in power management chips and sensors.
The customer has Apple.
5. Taiwan Yuanxiang Feeling
Yuanxiang Technology was established in 2001 and has been committed to mixed-signal IC design, manufacturing, testing and sales. The main products are magnetic field sensing and brushless DC motor drive IC, battery management IC, microcontroller IC, etc.
Customers include SSK Biaowang and JEET.
6. Tianyu FitiPower Foxconn Group Ecological Chain Company, Taiwan listed company stock code 4961
Tianyu Technology was founded in 1995 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is a professional battery management and LCD driver IC chip design company.
7. Maxim Integrated, a US NASDAQ listed company, stock code MXIM
Founded in 1983, Maxim Integrated mainly designs, manufactures and sells high-performance analog, linear and mixed-signal semiconductor products for industrial, automotive communications, healthcare and consumer markets. The company has more than 7,000 employees, 35,000 customers, and sales of $2.31 billion in 2019.
This year, Maxim launched the industry's smallest 2-pin bidirectional DC power line communication (PLC) device MAX20340, which reduces the size of the power supply and communication interface of the charging base by 80% in ultra-low-power portable and wearable applications. Compared with the closest competitive solution, this product effectively simplifies the design and saves 13mm2 of footprint for each headset.
8. Micromob Electronics Micone Shanghai Belling (6000171.SH) subsidiary
Founded in 1999, Nanjing Weimeng Electronics Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development and sales of analog integrated circuit chip products. Committed to the development of power management products, mainly including LDO series, DC/DC series, LED DRIVER, AC/DC series, lithium battery management, voltage detection series, digital-analog hybrid series, audio power amplifier IC series, etc., and is the main electronic device Chips and related devices provide high-quality and stable power solutions.
In 2019, Weimob Electronics had revenue of 219 million yuan and net profit of 25.12 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 112%.
Customer has ANKER
9. Nanlin Natlinear is preparing to go public
Shanghai Nanlin Electronics Co., Ltd. was established in 2004, specializing in R&D and manufacturing of digital-analog hybrid chips. Focusing on the design and research of analog and digital-analog hybrid integrated circuits, it is a one-stop solution provider for power chip management.
In 2019, Nanlin Electronics had revenue of 157 million yuan and net profit of 3.53 million yuan.
Customers have TaoTronics
10. NXP NXP
NXP Semiconductors, the Netherlands, is one of the top ten semiconductor companies in the world. It was founded in 2006 and was previously founded by Philips more than 50 years ago.
NXP provides semiconductors, system solutions and software to provide a better sensory experience for mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, automobiles, and other wide-ranging electronic devices.
Customers have B&O
11. Quanxin QX
Quanxin Electronic Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. was established in 2005. It is mainly engaged in the design and development of analog and radio frequency integrated circuit products such as power management, LED lighting and display drivers, wireless communications, high-speed data interfaces, and optical fiber communications. It also provides dedicated integration Circuit (ASIC) design service and promotion of integrated circuit application solutions.
Customers include Motorola, GLIDiC
12. Siwang SEAWARD
Beijing Siwang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2000, specializing in power management IC design. The company's product design uses the most cutting-edge technology in the United States, and all ICs are forward-designed and have independent intellectual property rights.
31 series of power management ICs have been developed, among which 25 series of products have achieved mass production, and the products are mainly used in mobile phones, digital cameras, Bluetooth headsets, etc.
13. Shouding
Founded in 2012, Shou Ding Semiconductor is a high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company. Its products include audio amplifier, DC/DC power conversion, lithium battery charging management chip and boost IC.
Customers include: JEET and PMT.
14. Tianyuan SMIC
Shenzhen Tianyuan Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was established in 2010 and is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of integrated circuit chips. The company mainly focuses on the research and development of power management, MCU and automotive electronic chips.
15. Toppin Micro
Nanjing Toppin Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is a company specialized in the design and sales of consumer electronic chips. It is in a leading position in China in terms of low-power power management integrated circuits, microcontroller chips and other digital-analog hybrid circuits. At present, the main products include: Lithium battery charging management series, all-in-one charging plus boost plus protection IC, etc.
16. Siyuan Semiconductor
In 2011, Siyuan Semiconductor was founded in Shenzhen and continued to cultivate battery management chips. From the development of the earliest 340X series chip products, it has updated and iterated more than 10 battery management chips. Recently, Siyuan Semiconductor launched the SY860X series of lithium battery charging management and the SY880X series of smart charging warehouse solutions specifically for the TWS true wireless headset market.
Customers include OPPO and Xiaomi.
17, Yingjixin
Injixin Technology Co., Ltd. is an IC design company focusing on the research and development and sales of high-performance, high-quality digital-analog hybrid integrated circuit chips. Currently, it has three main product lines: power management, battery management and intelligent interfaces, which are widely used in smart phones , Chargers, mobile power supplies, smart power strips, car chargers, wireless chargers, driving recorders and many other fields.
In February 2020, Injixin Technology fully launched TWS and launched 8 TWS true wireless headset charging box power chips.
Customers include Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, etc.
18.Washington
Huaxinbang Group was established in 2008. The core team is all from STMicroelectronics. It has been committed to the development of China's integrated circuit design business, providing high-performance, low-power integrated circuit chips. At present, Bang has quickly launched portable digital lithium battery products A variety of fully integrated chips such as SOC, TWS charging warehouse SOC, mobile energy storage SOC, and PMU/SOC of the electric vehicle energy storage BMS protection board, are fully used in the consumer goods field.
19. Micro-source semiconductor
Since its establishment in 2005, Shenzhen Chuangxin Microsource Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has rapidly become the world's leading provider of power management solutions. It has R&D centers in the United States, Taiwan, China, and sales centers around the world dedicated to providing customers with Complete power management solutions and technical services.
Customers have Huawei and Honor.
20. Shengsheng Microelectronics
SinhMicro, founded in 2016, is a start-up company dedicated to providing innovative SoC chip-level solutions for IoT terminal node devices, and mass-produces a variety of chip solutions for TWS.
Customers have Wanmo, Edifier.
21. Saiwei Microelectronics
Saiwei Microelectronics is a fabless semiconductor company for power and battery management chips. The product line includes battery fuel gauge chips, battery management chips, battery protection chips, BMS front-end acquisition chips, and USB charging control chips. The focus on market areas covers mobile communications, tablet computers, notebook computers, electric tools, electric vehicles, battery energy storage equipment and many other fields. There are battery test centers, sales and technical support in Shanghai Pudong New Area, Shenzhen Nanshan Science and Technology Park, Songshan Lake in Dongguan City and Taipei.
For mid-to-high-end TWS headset applications, Saiwei Microelectronics has launched a total power management solution, including linear charging chip CW6305, battery fuel gauge chips CW2015, CW2017 and lithium battery protection chip CW1012.
Customers include Xiaomi, Huawei and Honor.
22. STMicroelectronics (ST)
STMicroelectronics (ST) Group was established in 1987 by the merger of Italy's SGS Microelectronics and French Thomson Semiconductor. In May 1998, it changed its name to STMicroelectronics. It is one of the manufacturers with the broadest semiconductor product line, ranging from discrete diodes and transistors to complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices, and then includes reference designs, application software, manufacturing tools and There are more than 3000 types of standard and complete platform solutions.
Customers include Apple, Huawei, and Xiaomi.
23, Guyu Semiconductor
Guyu Semiconductor is an integrated circuit design company focusing on the field of power management. It was established in Shenzhen in 2018. The core members of the company's R&D and management team are from world-renowned semiconductor companies, and most of them have been in the field of integrated circuits for more than ten years.
24. Samsung Semiconductor
Samsung is an outstanding provider of large-scale integrated solutions, providing solutions such as security integrated circuits, display integrated circuits, smart card integrated circuits, power management integrated circuits, and bioprocessors, which can be used in smart phones, consumer electronics and other emerging applications .
Samsung's highly integrated power supply IC minimizes the chip size and can realize the space-saving printed circuit board layout required for new mobile devices and wearable devices. With excellent output ripple and thermal performance, Samsung power ICs can improve energy efficiency to extend battery life. Recently, Samsung has launched an all-in-one power management IC (PMIC) optimized for TWS headsets. This chip is also applied to Samsung Galaxy Buds+TWS headsets.
The customer has Samsung.
25, Bochi letter CREATIC
Shenzhen Bochixin Company was founded in 2009 and has been focusing on integrated circuit (IC) design and development, sales and technology transfer as its core business, focusing on consumer electronics and green energy. The products have formed four major product lines with mobile power SoC, LED lighting, PMU, and AC/DC power supply as the main force, and has 16 domestic and foreign patents.
Customers have QCY, Shanling.
