SemiconductorEngineering: VPS Semiconductor startup promising "For the first time, a new type of imaging device with a single pixel composed of a single transistor-vertical charge transfer imaging device (VPS technology for short)" raises 100M yuan in series A financing round.
"Perfect fusion of high resolution and large field of view ultra-small pixel size 0.5 micron - ultra-large pixel size of 400 million pixels.
With independent innovation of vertical charge transfer imaging device (VPS) as the core, the company focuses on the development and application design of next-generation ultra-large-scale pixel image sensor chip products, and is committed to providing future-oriented and high-quality imaging performance for medical, commercial satellites and other fields. Large-scale imaging chips and solutions are the leader of billion-pixel imaging chip solutions.
The founding team of the company comes from Nanjing University, Sony, Infineon and other well-known universities and overseas famous chip companies. The R&D team has an average of more than 10 years of industry experience.
The team has completed the research and development and verification of the first chip with a pixel size of 400 million and a pixel size of 0.5 microns. It is the smallest and largest pixel size imaging chip that has been reported. It is mainly used in medical in vitro diagnostics and other fields to help doctors improve diagnosis efficiency , The product is expected to reach 1 billion yuan/year output value within 5 years after the development is completed, and 40+ core intellectual property rights have been applied for.
At present, VPS Vision’s first 600 million pixel imaging chip has begun to be taped out in domestic fabs. This chip has a 0.5 micron pixel size and is known as a digital microchip that can directly "see" cells. It can be revolutionary. To change the existing observation methods, realize the centimeter-level wide field of view and sub-micron resolution simultaneously, and help medical device manufacturers create powerful, cost-effective, and portable devices in the fields of morphology, immunity, and genes, and enter the future for medical equipment."
