So why can’t the sensor market drive itself?

Here I think there are several main reasons:

First, industrialization is backward and profit margins are low.

6445-001-K-N China’s industrial development started relatively late, and the degree of automation is not high. Not long ago, when I visited Shenzhen local sensor companies, I found that 80% of the assembly process of the entire pressure sensor is still adopted by manual assembly, and the output is fundamentally not up, resulting in the scale can not keep up. And the production capacity does not go up, the cost can not be controlled, and the low profit margin makes the wait-and-see deterred. In addition, although the technical content of the sensor itself is high, the price of a single sensor is generally not high, and it is difficult to rely solely on the sensor to form a considerable output value.

Second, the sensor research and development cycle is long, and the risk is high.

According to Dong Yonggui, professor of the Department of precision Instruments at Tsinghua University, this can be well interpreted, the research and development of a sensor needs at least 6-8 years to mature, and Chinese enterprises can not withstand such a long cycle, and the risk of research failure is not low. Therefore, hard work is not what the market is willing to do, and what the market is pursuing is always a high-yield, low-risk, high-return industry.

Third, the rise of foreign brands, domestic market share was suppressed.

Based on the characteristics of high yield, low risk, high return, derived from 6445-001-K-N the “build is better than buy, wool in the sheep” wind, domestic sensor companies, especially in the chip, self-research and development is very little, almost all are imported, the quality and reputation of foreign brands gradually formed.

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6445-001-K-N In the case of the gradual expansion of the influence of foreign brands, it is more difficult for domestic brands to rise, and the risk is greater. The most classic example is that in 2010 Omron a switch to close to 400 yuan, and now with the gradual rise of Chinese brands, now only need 60 yuan, in the face of a price war, the pressure of domestic brands can be imagined, in this case how to survive in the industry may be the most they think of the problem.

Of course, there are many reasons for the backward development of domestic sensors. Based on these points alone, we can see that the market-driven road does not work.

The abroad precedes the racetrack by decades

Previously, Lin Xueping, a professor at Tianjin University, believed that domestic sensor technology was all jammed.

The first is industrial design software, MEMS sensor design relies heavily on the software 6445-001-K-N IntelliSuite, or ConventorWare, which has a domestic market share and is used by 30 research groups including the 863 MEMS research program. It is almost equivalent to the position of industrial software Matlab in scientific computing.

Another example is the measurement of PM2.5, which was previously made by American thermal power companies and sold for hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars due to its precision. It was recently conquered by Tianjin University.

This kind of technology, which is more than ten years or even decades behind, is not able to overtake a corner with a high mouth. When others have done 1, no matter what direction to start from, you still need to start from 0-1, the consumption may not be less, or even more. Therefore, the corner overtaking itself is a false proposition.