China Zhongji Investment participates in a new round of financing for "Hefei Xinyi Hua," supporting the development of China's high-end equipment.
Recently, Hefei Xinyihu Intelligent Machinery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hefei Xinyihu"), a domestic supplier of intelligent equipment for the broader semiconductor industry, completed a 600 million yuan equity financing round. This round of financing was jointly led by CMB International and Tongchuang Venture Capital, with participation from China Zhongji Investment, Walden International, Ping An Caizhi, CAS Turing, Hefei Industrial Investment, Huarong Ruize, Tianma Microelectronics, Yinfei Storage, Taowen Tourism Group, Yueshi Investment, Orange Leaf Investment, Wo Fu Capital, Jintaipu Investment, and others. Guangyuan Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor. Hefei Xinyihu will use this round of financing for the research and development and expansion of high-end equipment.
The broader semiconductor industry is a national strategic emerging industry. It demands high production environment, efficiency, and yield rates. The reliability, precision, and speed of equipment are key factors affecting the industry's production capacity and yield improvement. Due to the rapid growth of related industries in China, core process equipment mainly relies on imports and has long been monopolized by foreign companies.
Hefei Xinyihu was established in July 2013 by Beijing Xinyihu Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xinyihu Group"). Its main business includes industrial robots for the broader semiconductor industry, smart factory solutions, and high-end manufacturing equipment. Xinyihu Group is a high-tech company that provides solutions and professional services for intelligent manufacturing, information interaction, and convenient human life. Its business involves multiple fields such as intelligent machinery, advanced materials, artificial intelligence, and aircraft, and it has established R&D centers and business networks covering major regions in Europe, America, and Asia.
Through nearly 8 years of development, Hefei Xinyihu has become an excellent supplier in the domestic new display industry chain. It possesses strong technological R&D capabilities and its customer base basically covers large domestic panel manufacturers. It has also established long-term and close cooperative relationships with customers in the global broader semiconductor industry chain.
The company has long been committed to the field of intelligent equipment for the broader semiconductor industry and has strong technical capabilities. Since its establishment, it has successively established the Anhui Provincial Enterprise Technology Center, the Provincial Postdoctoral Research Workstation, the Anhui Provincial Engineering Research Center for Robots used in New Displays, and the Anhui Provincial Industrial Design Center. It has built a leading domestic technology development and testing platform; and has presided over and undertaken many national key research and development projects and national key technological research projects.
The company has successively developed China's first high-generation glass substrate clean handling robot, high-generation TFT substrate line open/short circuit defect detection equipment, OLED evaporation machine, large-size Mini LED mass transfer equipment, and other high-end equipment. It has the technical capability to provide customers with overall smart factory solutions ranging from loading and unloading to intelligent production lines, intelligent detection, intelligent warehousing and packaging, and information system integration. In the future, the company will focus on the integration of "AI+" technology, enhance the added value of equipment, create an intelligent industrial ecosystem for customers, and help the industry achieve high-quality development.
Wu Fushun, Partner and Managing Director of China Zhongji Investment, said: "China's broader semiconductor industry is in a period of rapid development, with broad industry prospects. Hefei Xinyihu, as one of the competitors in the industrial equipment sector, has years of technological accumulation and strong product development capabilities. The company has already developed several technologically leading, domestically first high-end equipment products. We firmly believe that the company will be able to become one of the leaders in this sector in the future."
