EqualOcean has learned that FabXLab (Chinese: 法博思), a semiconductor equipment testing company, has recently closed tens of millions of CNY in Series A financing.
Founded in 2019, FabXLab is a semiconductor measurement equipment developer dedicated to providing localized, self-controlled measurement equipment to customers in the semiconductor industry. The team size is more than 20 people, and the proportion of R&D personnel is about 80%. Among them, the core members are mainly from Sharp China R&D Center, Tianjin University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and other world-famous companies and institutions. Founder and CEO Song Jinlong worked at Sharp and Lenovo Research Institute and has deep expertise in 3D algorithms, visual recognition and measurement.
In recent years, the semiconductor industry in China has been developing rapidly under the combined efforts of policy, market and capital, driving the market demand for semiconductor inspection equipment. At the same time, in the United States, the background of escalating sanctions, foreign leading enterprises in the Chinese mainland market business is blocked, the local foundries have accelerated the import of domestic equipment in the past two years, the amount of / detection equipment is expected to usher in the best window of domestic substitution.
The company's current core products include two categories: substrate chip inspection equipment and wafer-level advanced packaging inspection equipment. Among them, the substrate wafer inspection equipment, including large silicon, three and a half generations, including a variety of substrate wafer geometry and defects; wafer-level advanced packaging inspection equipment, including 2D / 3D defect detection, roughness, TSV and other profile detection, as well as OVERLAY and CD detection.
In order to ensure the advantages of technology and stability, the company usually does fine and fine on a certain product before plowing into other equipment in the vertical direction; at the same time, the staff is required to actively communicate with customers on R & D and process, dig out the shortcomings of equipment that can be improved, and continuously improve the localization rate of equipment parts, so as to make the delivery time of equipment controllable. "Compared with imported equipment, the cost is one of the biggest advantages of domestic equipment."
Talking about the next step in the development strategy, Song Jinlong said: "Morphological measurement equipment includes various product series, after the completion of this round of financing, we first attack the remaining product series in this direction, of course, this product must have the prospect of volume, and at the same time be able to accumulate under the general technology. In addition, defect detection is one of the major directions in the instrumentation industry, covering various equipment from micron level to tens of nanometer level. The company will use the existing equipment as the basis, and continuously do technology accumulation and breakthrough in this direction, at the same time, do horizontal and vertical double-end expansion of products based on the accumulated technology".
This round of funding was co-invested by Hefei Dunqin Capital (Chinese: 合肥敦勤致元) and Xinniu Capital (Chinese: 兴牛资本), which is founded by executives from Intel and ARM. The funds raised in this round will mainly be used to expand the R&D team, marketing, DEMO machine production and new product development.