Symet completed 540 million yuan in financing, and China Internet Investment, BYD, Hillhouse and others jointly invested

On June 29th, the domestic industrial software service provider “Symet” announced that it has recently completed A++ and B rounds of financing totaling 540 million yuan. Investors include China Internet Investment Fund, BYD Shares, Weihao Chuangxin , Hillhouse Ventures, Shanghai Kechuang, Shanghai Free Trade Zone Fund, Tianshan Capital, etc. This round of financing is mainly based on industrial cooperation, which will further accelerate the development of Symet in the business field. The management of Symet has full confidence in the company’s development and jointly increased its capital by 200 million yuan.

It is reported that this round of financing has enriched the company’s capital reserves, and will continue to increase investment in product research and development, and build domestic fully automatic manufacturing software solutions at full speed. At the same time, select the appropriate team to complete mergers and acquisitions, integrate and improve the product matrix and expand the geographical market layout.

Saimate is committed to accelerating the development of domestic intelligent manufacturing, and is a high-tech enterprise with core technology and intellectual property rights of intelligent manufacturing software. The company’s name “Semi-Tech” means “beyond the United States, especially excellent”, and it is also a transliteration of the domain name “semi-tech.com” (semiconductor technology). Its goal is to make semiconductor industry manufacturing software better and stronger, and replace international Manufacturers’ expensive solutions, together with upstream and downstream partners in the industry, jointly solve the “stuck neck” problem faced in the road of semiconductor localization.

Self-developed domestic intelligent manufacturing software solutions to achieve import substitution

In recent years, the integrated circuit industry has frequently encountered problems such as difficult to break through core technologies. The main reason is that the semiconductor manufacturing process is one of the “high-end technologies” in the industrial field. The production process is extremely complex and lengthy, and the yield rate of each step must be close to 100. % to ensure that the final production yield remains at an acceptable level. Industrial software is the core of realizing intelligent manufacturing. In particular, 8/12-inch fabs need stable and safe intelligent manufacturing software to meet the needs of factories to continuously improve production efficiency, reduce production costs, and optimize product yield.

At present, more than 90% of the intelligent manufacturing software used in domestic 8/12-inch fabs are provided by international suppliers. Due to the strong vertical attributes of manufacturing software and high technical barriers, customers basically have no room for trial and error. However, the development of domestic industrial software started late, and there are few landing cases, which makes many companies who want to choose domestic software worry. Saimet is aiming at the pain points of the industry, with the mission of “software achieves intelligent manufacturing”, to solve the controllable demand for domestic technology of manufacturing software in the semiconductor industry, to fill the domestic gap, and to realize import substitution as its own responsibility, it is the first domestic company that can provide A complete set of intelligent manufacturing software solution provider that meets the fully automated production of 12-inch wafers. The self-developed pure domestic CIM system platform has been successfully verified in domestic 8/12-inch wafer mass production plants.

Consolidate core technologies and continue to invest in product research and development

In terms of products, Symet divides the system into three categories: production management, quality management and logistics management. The production management series mainly based on MES (Manufacturing Execution System) includes EAP (Equipment Automation System), RMS (Recipe Management System), RTD (Real Time Dispatching System), APC (Advanced Process Control System), FDC (Defect Classification Control) System), etc.; quality management covers SPC (statistical process control) and YMS (yield management system); logistics management includes products such as WMS (warehouse management system) and Mobile (smart terminal). Among them, mature and standardized systems such as MES, EAP, and SPC have been successfully used in more than 100 4/6/8/12-inch silicon wafer, front-end and back-end factories at home and abroad, escorting customers to achieve efficient and high-quality production; key research and development RTD, YMS, APC, FDC systems have also been used in the production site for verification.

Creating a complete set of intelligent manufacturing system solutions is the result of the comprehensive integration of product design, system development, and industry experience, and the foundation of creating excellent products is the cooperation of excellent talents, which requires the company to have a strong talent team. Since its establishment, Symet has attached great importance to the cultivation and introduction of technical talents. The core team has decades of experience and technical strength in the construction of intelligent manufacturing systems in the fields of semiconductor/pan-semiconductor, rail transit, equipment manufacturing, new energy vehicles, and electronic assembly. At present, the company has a total of more than 450 personnel, of which 80% are technical personnel.

Symet is headquartered in Shanghai, and has established subsidiaries and product R&D centers in Suzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Chengdu. With the help of the strong industrial foundation of the four major regions of East China, South China, North China, and Southwest China, it has established a strategic layout of resource exchange and complementarity. At the same time, it has also established subsidiaries in Singapore and Malaysia to expand its international business and achieve local delivery.

The original intention remains unchanged, aiming to achieve “intelligent manufacturing” in China

Manufacturing is the main body of the national economy, the foundation of a country, an instrument of rejuvenation, and the foundation of a strong country. However, compared with the world’s advanced level, although China is the only country in the world with a complete industrial system, its manufacturing industry is concentrated in the mid-end of the world, large but not strong. , quality and efficiency and other aspects of the gap is obvious. In 2019, the revenue of industrial software products was 168 billion yuan, and the market size only accounted for 5.73% of the world. In order to upgrade from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power, China will continue to invest a lot of resources, and world-class giants will also be born in the field of intelligent manufacturing services.

Facing the explosive development ushered in by the intelligent manufacturing industry, Symet will not forget its original intention, always put products in the first place, pay attention to the needs of customers, devote itself to in-depth manufacturing sites, become a pragmatic expert in intelligent manufacturing solutions for customers, and deliver products conscientiously. every item. Symet aims to achieve “intelligent manufacturing” in China!

China Internet Investment Fund said: Domestic industrial software will continue to grow in the future and has a broad market space. Symet is determined to be “intelligent in China”, continuously consolidates core technologies, and successfully develops domestic intelligent manufacturing software solutions. rapid and steady growth. China Net Investment hopes to inject more resources into the future development of Symet, help the company to accelerate the development in the business field, further enhance the core competitiveness, and make a new leap.

Li Qian, Secretary of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the Investment Office of BYD, said: With its strong technical strength in the field of intelligent manufacturing software, it has developed a domestic intelligent manufacturing software platform and successfully completed the difficult and demanding 12-inch wafer fab. Landed, realizing the independent control of semiconductor manufacturing software. In the context of manufacturing upgrades, intelligent manufacturing software has broad prospects for development. We have full confidence in the Symate team and look forward to this round of financing to help Symate ride the wind and accelerate the development of domestic industrial software.

Li Liang, founding partner of Hillhouse, said: The market share of domestic industrial software is rapidly increasing, especially in core industries such as integrated circuits, and domestic substitution of imports is the general trend. Symet, which has outstanding technical advantages and market development potential, is a typical representative. Symet’s self-developed intelligent manufacturing software platform has been successfully verified in the 8/12-inch wafer mass production plant, and it is actively deploying key fields such as equipment manufacturing, chemicals, and automobiles, and has broad development space. We believe that Syme It will continue to create value for the high-quality development of China’s intelligent manufacturing.