Promoting High-Quality Industrial Development · Venture Capital Record | Moshuzhixin: Accumulating Strength for Breakthroughs, Striving to Realize Domestic Replacement of High-End Analog Chips
July 24, 2024
In the digital age, chips—these precision structures in the microscopic world—have quietly become the core engine driving technological progress and industrial upgrading. They are not only the cornerstone of the information era but also the key to connecting reality and virtuality, and powering the interconnection of all things. Currently, China is accelerating the domesticization process of high-end chips with unprecedented determination and efforts, while providing policy support and preferential treatment in multiple key areas such as taxation, market access, and R&D. The country has not only clearly required accelerating breakthroughs and applications of core technologies in fields like intelligent manufacturing and high-end chips in medium- and long-term development plans (including the 14th Five-Year Plan and Made in China 2025) but also successively issued special policy documents such as Several Policies for Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Integrated Circuit Industry and Software Industry in the New Era and Notice on Requirements for Formulating the List of Integrated Circuit Enterprises/Projects and Software Enterprises Eligible for Tax Incentives in 2024. These measures aim to comprehensively and multi-dimensionally push China’s chip industry into a new stage of high-quality development.
Nanjing Moshuzhixin Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Moshuzhixin") emerged against this backdrop of the times. Located in Nanjing Qilin Sci-Tech Innovation Park—a hotbed of innovation—Moshuzhixin, founded in 2022, has shouldered a heavy mission and responsibility since its establishment. Starting with general-purpose ultra-high-precision ADCs (Analog-to-Digital Converters), it is committed to providing customers with analog chip solutions of outstanding performance and reliable quality.

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Assembling Senior Industry Experts to Build the Core R&D Team

During the early exploration stage of entrepreneurship, Wang Wei, the founder of Moshuzhixin, demonstrated professional and managerial acumen. As a senior professional in the integrated circuit field, he not only possesses forward-looking macro thinking capabilities to accurately grasp industry trends but also shows excellent execution in practical operations, driving the company forward steadily from the details.
Moshuzhixin’s core team has gathered a wealth of professional talents in the industry. Among them are inventors who have won numerous awards for technological innovation, veterans with decades of experience in the semiconductor industry, experts with profound accumulation in fields like high-precision data conversion and low-noise analog signal processing, and outstanding professionals with rich engineering experience in medical CT chip design. Such a team with strong professional capabilities is the greatest confidence for Moshuzhixin to participate in market competition.
Since its establishment, Moshuzhixin has always regarded R&D as the core driving force for enterprise development. The company attaches great importance to the construction and investment in its R&D team—statistics show that the proportion of R&D personnel has always remained above 70%. Focusing on the design and development of high-end analog integrated circuit chips, Moshuzhixin is committed to providing customers with more high-quality and efficient product solutions. By continuously optimizing R&D processes and improving R&D efficiency, the company has successfully launched a series of market-competitive products, winning wide acclaim from customers and high recognition from the market.

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Products as the Core of Enterprise Development, Persisting in Domestic Replacement of High-End Products

In the vast landscape of the semiconductor industry, products are not only the shining stars of an enterprise’s development but also the direct embodiment of its technological strength. Moshuzhixin has always been committed to developing high-precision and high-reliability chip products to meet the increasingly complex and demanding market needs, and contribute to the domesticization of China’s high-end chips.
"The entrepreneur must focus on products as the core"—this concept is deeply rooted in Moshuzhixin’s development process. At the end of 2023, the company successfully launched eight new products covering converter chips (ADC/DAC), medical analog front-end circuit chips, and other categories based on integrated circuit chip technology. Entering 2024, Moshuzhixin did not rest on its laurels but set its sights on the continuous optimization and upgrading of products. The company launched a comprehensive optimized design project for two products, MCT1256 and MCT1248, hoping to further improve product performance and stability through technological innovation. After the R&D team’s relentless efforts day and night, two brand-new product series, MCT125X and MCT124X, successfully entered the mass production tape-out and testing stages. With their excellent performance parameters and stable operation, these two upgraded products will provide strong support for key application fields such as electronic instruments and medical electronics.
On the path of "domestic replacement" of high-end analog chip products, Moshuzhixin has made gratifying achievements step by step. The successful R&D of MCTME128C not only broke the technological monopoly of foreign enterprises but also filled the market gap of front-end acquisition chips for high-end medical CT equipment in China. This achievement not only demonstrates Moshuzhixin’s profound accumulation and innovation capabilities in the chip design field but also provides strong support for improving the technological level and independent controllability of China’s high-end medical equipment.

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Comprehensive Financial Ecosystem Services, Leveraging Capital for Rapid Enterprise Takeoff

The decision to settle in Nanjing was made after careful consideration by the Moshuzhixin team. Geographically, Nanjing can connect with Shanghai to the east and drive the Yangtze River Delta region to the west; in terms of talent supply, Nanjing is home to a cluster of universities, making it more convenient to cultivate promising talents for enterprises. The connection between Moshuzhixin and Nanjing is the result of the resonance between strategic vision and regional advantages. Nanjing, a city where history and modernity intersect, not only undertakes the eastward development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta Integration but also serves as a radiation center for the western Yangtze River Delta region due to its unique geographical location. Moreover, Nanjing’s abundant higher education resources provide a steady stream of talent support for Moshuzhixin, enabling the enterprise to thrive on its path of innovation and development.
Moshuzhixin’s rapid development has attracted the attention of local capital in Nanjing. At the end of 2022, the company successfully completed a Pre-A round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan, laying a solid foundation for its subsequent development. Currently, the company has launched the second round of financing. As the investment institution for the first round, Nanjing Innovation Investment Group is committed to promoting the strengthening and supplementation of the industrial chain of Nanjing’s integrated circuit industry. Hu Yong, General Manager of the Fifth Investment Department of the Venture Capital Group, values Moshuzhixin’s talent team and product value. The company has strong technological R&D capabilities: its core technical team is composed of senior industry experts, with advanced analog IC design technology, testing technology, and rich experience in production management and quality management. The R&D chip products are gradually entering the market.
Moshuzhixin aims to leverage the power of capital to accelerate the domestic replacement of high-end analog chips and solve the "chokepoint" technological problems. This is Moshuzhixin’s original aspiration and has never changed. The participation of Nanjing Innovation Investment Group undoubtedly adds strong momentum to Moshuzhixin’s "journey of soaring". In addition to sufficient capital support, the Venture Capital Group also helps expand the market through accurate connection of ecological resources, and joins hands with multiple sub-funds and banking institutions to build a financial ecosystem of investment-loan linkage. This provides a guarantee for the long-term development of the enterprise and adds "icing on the cake" to its growth.
Looking to the future, Moshuzhixin will uphold its original aspiration, continue to deepen its presence in the analog chip field, and take more determined steps to overcome difficulties, break through technological barriers and international monopolies. Because the team at Moshuzhixin firmly believes that every technological leap is a contribution to the country’s self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology.

Source: Nanjing Innovation Investment Group
Review: Xue Yao
Release: You Yi