Recently, China Zhongji Investment completed a targeted investment in the private placement of shares of Thundersoft (stock abbreviation: Thundersoft, code: 300496.SZ). It is understood that the funds raised will be used for five R&D projects: intelligent connected vehicle operating system, intelligent driving assistance system, 5G intelligent terminal certification platform, multi-modal fusion technology, and computer vision and industrial quality inspection technology (included in the Nanjing Yuhua Research Institute construction project).
The China Zhongji Investment project team believes that Thundersoft has deep accumulation in operating system technology, possessing a complete bottom-up technical service capability, from bottom-level customized R&D to secondary development of the operating system, and further to upper-level interface, visual optimization, and cross-system interoperability. The company has also established broad and long-term cooperative relationships with top-tier chip companies and automakers. With the expansion of the smartphone software market, the smart car market, and the smart IoT market, the company will enter a period of rapid growth.
Thundersoft is a world-leading provider of intelligent operating system products and technologies. Headquartered in Beijing, it has subsidiaries or R&D centers in 30 regions worldwide. Since its establishment in 2008, the company has been committed to providing excellent intelligent operating system products, technologies, and solutions, focusing on artificial intelligence key technologies based on intelligent terminal operating systems, and assisting and accelerating the product development and technological innovation in fields such as smartphones, intelligent connected vehicles, and the intelligent Internet of Things. As one of the earliest companies in China to engage in Android operating system development, Thundersoft adopts a project-based approach to operating system R&D, providing turnkey projects for customers. Through years of industry cultivation, the company's operating system technology has continuously iterated and accumulated, accumulating a large number of technologies and talents, becoming one of the few domestic and international companies that can provide comprehensive technical coverage from the chip layer, system layer, and application layer to the cloud. Based on a deep understanding of underlying systems, Thundersoft's business has continuously expanded horizontally, from smartphone systems to VR, robots, and camera systems, to in-vehicle systems and IoT systems. In the process, Thundersoft has also strengthened its in-vehicle infotainment system IVI, UI, and visual technology capabilities through mergers and acquisitions, making up for shortcomings and continuously optimizing its overall solution capabilities. Currently, in the in-vehicle system sector, more than 100 companies worldwide use Thundersoft's intelligent cockpit products and solutions; in the intelligent IoT sector, Thundersoft has formed a full-chain "cloud-edge-end" solution.
Thundersoft's new generation of intelligent connected vehicle cockpit operating system platform (TurboX Auto 4.0)
Thanks to its unique connecting position in the industrial ecosystem, Thundersoft has established very extensive connections with upstream and downstream manufacturers in the industry chain. The company has a 10-year strategic partnership with Qualcomm chips and has also established long-term cooperative relationships with world-renowned chip companies such as Samsung, Intel, HiSilicon, MediaTek, and NXP. At the same time, it maintains close cooperation with major mobile phone manufacturers. Following the acquisition of Rightware (a Finnish company mainly engaged in UI engine development, whose products are mainly used in car instrument panels), it has established direct contact with more than 20 of its world-class automotive partners. This has secured strong strategic customer resources for the company. In the future, with the upgrade of 5G and deep intelligent modules, the intelligent software (mobile phones, tablets) business market will maintain steady growth; intelligent connected vehicles are a certain and rapidly growing market in the next 3-5 years and will become the main business driving revenue growth; the intelligent Internet of Things will benefit from the application of 5G, creating huge development space, and the market will gradually enter a period of rapid growth, lasting for more than 10 years, creating conditions for the company's long-term growth.
