Operator Financial Network intern Niu Rongli/Text
Si Lijie is mainly engaged in chip design of power management. It is the largest independent analog chip design company in Asia. Its founder and chairman Chen Wei is one of the elites of returnees from mainland China. He worked hard in Silicon Valley in the United States in his early years and has many years of experience in the industry. Today, the operator financial network tries to reveal his past for you.
Chen Wei, born in Hangzhou, was admitted to the mixed class of Zhu Kezhen College of Zhejiang University in 1988, graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University in 1992, and then went to study in the United States.
During the period from 1993 to 1998, Wei Chen studied at Virginia Tech and State University in the United States, and obtained a master's degree and a doctorate degree in electrical engineering.
In 1998, Chen Wei, who graduated with a Ph.D., decided to start a business in Silicon Valley in the United States and participated in the establishment of VPT, the largest military power supply company in the United States.
Subsequently, he successively worked for Linear Technology Corp (Linear Technology) and MonolithIC Power System (Core Source Semiconductor), which are well-known in Silicon Valley.
In 2008, Chen Wei returned to China with 30 US patents and patents from many other countries, and founded Si Lijie in , Hangzhou East Software Park , focusing on technology research and development in power management. In the early days of
, Si Lijie was a small team with only nine engineers. Under the leadership of Chen Wei, the team specialized in wafer process, IC design, system architecture, packaging technology, and the products gradually became popular in the industry with their performance advantages. Reputation.
In 2009, Silijie launched the first energy-saving chip, which has been widely used in LED lighting, notebook computers, solid-state drives, set-top boxes and other products.
However, starting a business is not all smooth sailing. In view of the special identity of the founder of Silijie, Chen Wei, who has worked in MPS, and the products launched by Silijie at the beginning were all aimed at replacing MPS, MPS also aimed at Silijie.
On March 2, 2010, MPS filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Silicon Power in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that Silicon Power maliciously infringed MPS's high-efficiency, low-voltage, low-current converters (such as DC-to-DC step-down converters). device) patent.
On November 1, 2013, MPS filed a patent lawsuit against Silicon Power and Compal Computer in California, USA.
In the end, due to the improvement of these controversial products and technologies by Silijie, the two parties ended up peacefully after repeated efforts. Among them, the specific compensation amount of Silijie is unknown.
In 2013, Chen Wei led Si Lijie to be listed in Taiwan, and Si Lijie became the first semiconductor company listed in Taiwan with mainland China as the main business.
Under the leadership of Dr. Chen Wei, Si Lijie attaches great importance to technological innovation. According to the official website, as of March 2022, Silijie has applied for 1,900 patents and obtained more than 1,510 invention patents, the largest number of patents in the analog IC industry.
