August 23, 2021, Shanghai, China
Bosch Huayu Steering System Co., Ltd. ("Bosch Huayu") and Shanghai Thinktech Information Technology Co., Ltd. ("Shanghai Thinktech") announced a strategic cooperation. According to the agreement, in the future, the two parties will give full play to their respective advantages in component and chip design, fully share and integrate resources. Both parties will jointly define chips and actively promote domestic substitution of chips starting from chip development cooperation to establish a long-term and stable relationship.
Under the common witness of Mr. Zhang Haitao, Managing Director of Huayu Automotive Systems Co., Ltd., Mr. Qiu Qi, General Manager of Bosch Huayu Steering Systems Co., Ltd., Mr. Kong Linggang, Chairman of Koal Software Co., Ltd., and Mr. Kong Min, Chairman of Shanghai Thinktech Information Technology Co., Ltd., a memorandum of strategic cooperation has been signed by Mr. Tang Shaobo, Technical Director of Bosch Huayu, and Mr. Liu Gongzhe, General Manager of Shanghai Thinktech on behalf of the two parties.
【Pic】Signing ceremony of cooperation between Bosch Huayu and Shanghai Thinktech
【Pic】Taking photos together
Due to global epidemic, the semiconductor industry has severely suspended production and supply. In the case of automotive MCU products, the lack of production capacity is particularly prominent. The acceleration of domestic substitution and the realization of independent control of the chip industry have risen to the national strategic height. Auto OEMs and Tier1s have also put forward urgent requirements for domestic chip independence rate. The strategic cooperation between Bosch Huayu and Shanghai Thinktech has responded to the national strategy and the development strategy of domestically-made automotive chips from the national level, improved customer response capabilities and problem solving from the automotive industry level, enhanced the domestic semiconductor industry design and manufacturing capabilities from the product level, and ensured supply chain security from the supply chain level, stabilized market share and profitability, and created more value for the development of society and enterprises.
Bosch Huayu Steering System Co., Ltd. is currently a high-tech enterprise integrating development and manufacturing with the largest scale and market share of passenger car steering system in China, specializing in the development, production, assembly and sales of automotive steering systems and key components. Products include EPSapa, EPSdp, cEPSc, HPS and related parts, etc., covering various business fields of rack and pinion automobile steering system. Its customers mainly cover more than 40 OEMs including Volkswagen, General Motors, Geely, SAIC Passenger Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, etc. Some of its products are exported to 9 countries and regions.
Shanghai Thinktech is a chip supplier dedicated to the construction of intelligent application in the field of intelligent connected vehicles. The company adheres to the corporate development concept of "independent & controllable, safe & intelligent, trusted & interconnected", and is constantly studying on the road of independent innovation. The company has R&D capabilities of automotive-grade MCU with controllable production line. At the same time the company has an information security product system for Internet of Vehicles with completely independent intellectual property rights. The company’s independently developed Mizar series of security chips (M20/M300/M2000) are able to meet the needs of Information security requirements such as vehicle cloud certification, secure communication, ECU firmware signature and certification, on-board security CAN communication, private data storage, etc., which are required in the development of automotive intelligence and networking. At present, the products have been widely adopted by domestic and foreign Tier1 suppliers and automakers and applied to mass-produced models, including SAIC passenger car Marvel R, Immotors, GAC passenger car AION V, GAC passenger car M8, GM Buick new GL8 and so on.
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