Driven by Apple, the 3D camera industry is extremely popular. Whether it is the domestic market or the overseas market, there are many companies in the 3D camera industry. Ams, an overseas semiconductor company, as Apple's 3D camera supplier, according to the mobile phone reported online and its exchange, it is bound to pay more attention to the Chinese market this year, at the same time, it is said that it has negotiated cooperation with many domestic mobile phone manufacturers, if If the mass production is truly realized, then the outbreak node of the 3D camera industry will come faster!
Ams: 8,000 employees surge in one year, and four areas for future layout
It is understood that ams (Ames Semiconductor) is the world's leading designer and manufacturer of advanced sensor solutions. Many of the world's leading manufacturers rely on Ames Semiconductor's sensing technology to design advanced systems. Emis Semiconductor believes that "sensing is life," and the company is committed to creating sensor solutions that make devices and technologies more intelligent, safer, easier to use, and more environmentally friendly.
Amys Semiconductor’s sensor solutions are the core of a range of products and technologies that define the world in which they are today, including smart phones and mobile devices, smart homes and smart buildings, industrial automation, medical technology and connected vehicles. . Its products promote applications that require compact size, low power, high sensitivity, and multi-sensor integration. Sensors (including optical sensors), interfaces, and related software for the consumer, communications, industrial, medical, and automotive markets.
As early as 2017, ams announced that it has entered into cooperation with Sunny Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sunny Optical. AIM Semiconductor will join hands with this leading integrated optical equipment manufacturer and optical imaging system solution provider to develop and sell 3D sensing images for mobile devices and automotive applications for original equipment manufacturers in China and other regions of the world. solution.
This collaboration will combine the leading edge of both parties in the field of optical sensing and imaging, providing an attractive solution for OEMs and system suppliers in the 3D sensing growth field, and enabling high-performance 3D imaging. The system can be put to market faster. Both companies jointly develop imaging solutions for 3D sensing applications and provide related software and algorithms. The cooperation will focus on the opportunities of global OEMs in the field of mobile devices and smart phones, and promote the development of innovative 3D consumer applications. It will also expand and capture the emerging opportunities for 3D sensor imaging systems in the automotive sector.
There are four major aspects of its core business from Ams: one is high-performance sensor solutions, sensor ICs, interfaces and related software, and the other is small size, low power, high sensitivity, multi-sensor integration, and the third is for leading OEMs. Vendors provide best-in-class solutions and four of them are full wafer fabrication services including packaging and testing. The focus of attention is on optics, environment, imaging and audio!
According to ams CEO Alexander Everke, from 2016 to 2019, ams is expected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 60%, and in 2017, its revenue exceeded a record of 1 billion euros, an increase of 93% year-on-year. If it is calculated in U.S. dollars, the increase is more than 100%.
Ams 3D camera China road: to strengthen cooperation with domestic mobile phone manufacturers
In the field of 3D cameras, in addition to Apple’s launch of the 3D camera industry last year, other mobile phone manufacturers are actively following up. In addition, under the auspices of Apple, a large number of domestic camera industry enterprises are vigorously deployed, such as AAC, Dali, Sunny and ams, Truly, etc., each program has its own advantages and disadvantages. AAC Technologies focuses on hybrid lenses, glass wafer-level lenses are extremely advantageous, and Dali Optical has advantages in plastic lenses, but it also has glass production capacity; Sunny Optical TOF, Speckle Structured Light, and Coded Structure Light are all three mainstream solutions. Mass production; ams wafer-level lens has obvious advantages, is the iphone X front 3D sensing WLO wafer-level lens supplier.
Recently, according to the mobile phone newspaper online, Huawei has completed 3D camera-related design, and actively looking for supply chain manufacturers, the current receiver has been selected. It is estimated that the supply chain of the launch end can be formed in April, and Huawei flagship Mate11 is expected to carry 3D camera-related functions for the first time in the second half of this year.
Yu Jingguang has allegedly entered Huawei Technologies and became a supplier of Huawei 3D sensing receiver lenses. In this regard, Jade Jade said that because of confidentiality agreements with customers, it was inconvenient to express opinions; according to the mobile newspaper online reporter learned from the supply chain, in fact, for the Huawei project, the original method of bidding was used, but who is The first and second suppliers have to be based on the production capacity. Subsequently, the mobile newspaper online journalist on this to Europe and Africa technology certification, the other staff said that it is not convenient to reply.
In addition, an industry analyst once analyzed that “3D imaging has strict requirements on parameters such as offset degree and optical axis tilt, and bad products cannot be repaired. High-cost, high-tech barriers cannot be exceeded by general manufacturers, so the module In terms of manufacturers, the fragmented competitive landscape of the module industry is expected to improve at this stage. From another perspective, with the increase in packaging components and the increase in the number of processes and time, 3D imaging brings not only new demand, but also Capacity upgrades."
For ams, it has already begun to lay out the 3D camera industry. According to Ams, its main advantages in this field lie in two major areas. The first is VCSEL, the second is algorithm, and in terms of algorithm, it is the acquisition of KeyLemon. ! The latter not only has an industry-renowned and leading 3D face recognition intellectual property database and has been able to reliably and securely implement smart phone 3D face recognition functions, but also uses intellectual property in 3D solutions for consumer and other applications. Batch solutions will be available in 2018. In addition, OEMs will be able to add high-quality 3D face recognition capabilities to their devices and reduce time-to-market
It is well-known that 3D cameras incorporate 3D sensing technology based on time of flight (ToF) or structured light (SL) on the basis of traditional cameras. Currently, these two mainstream 3D sensing technologies are active sensing. Compared with the traditional camera industry chain, the 3D camera industry chain mainly adds "infrared light source + optical components + infrared sensors" and other parts, the most critical part of which is the infrared light source, active sensing 3D camera technology usually uses infrared light to detect the target.
Early 3D sensing systems generally use LEDs as infrared light sources, but as VCSEL technology matures, the price/performance ratio is close to that of infrared LEDs. In addition, in terms of technology, since LEDs do not have resonant cavities, the light beams are more divergent. In the case of a poor fit, VCSELs are generally used as infrared light sources for VCSELs because of their superiority in accuracy, miniaturization, low power consumption, and reliability. Therefore, the importance of VCSELs can be seen. .
In the field of VCSELs, according to AMS, the advantages are: very small pitch: higher resolution, lower system cost; leading electro-optic conversion efficiency: 45-50% typical quantum efficiency compared to up to 63 %; top quality beam: very narrow beam divergence; greater power: from mW to W, to more than 100 W. In addition, Emers Semiconductor's outstanding VCSEL performance can also be used in the automotive 3D LiDAR field.
And customized solutions to meet the SL and ToF 3D lighting needs, strong design support, prominent VCSEL performance to promote the rapid development of the automotive market LIDAR technology, in order to further promote the differentiation of VCSEL internal manufacturing, it also for 6-inch wafers Plant (2000 wspm) capacity expansion investment, is expected to achieve mass production in 2019, after the assessment will further increase capacity!
According to a mobile phone reporter interviewing Ams, for the progress of its 3D camera in the domestic market this year, according to it said that it will strengthen cooperation with domestic first-line mobile phone manufacturers, and the cooperation with Sunny Optical last year is the best example! Judging from the development of ams in China, like many overseas semiconductor companies, it currently attaches great importance to the Chinese market, especially in the field of 3D cameras, the total number of domestic top mobile phone manufacturers has exceeded the sum of Samsung and Apple At present, ams has established branches in five regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, and Taipei. In the past year alone, the number of domestic employees has increased by three times, which reflects the development of ams in the Chinese market. Force level, and in the author's communication process, it is obvious that in the 3D camera, it is bound to strengthen the cooperation with the domestic mobile phone manufacturers, and once the domestic first-line mobile phone manufacturers gradually adopt 3D camera, this will also promote the ams Performance growth!
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