As the bankruptcy reorganization of Ziguang group was promoted, Ziguang zhanrui, the core semiconductor asset of Ziguang, ushered in personnel change again: following Zhao Weiguo’s resignation as the legal representative, Chu Qing will no longer serve as the CEO of the company.
According to the latest announcement of Ziguang zhanrui, in order to strengthen corporate governance and improve the level of operation and management, the board of directors of Ziguang zhanrui company unanimously agreed to appoint Ren Qiwei to act as the CEO of the company, and Chu Qing will no longer serve as the CEO of the company.
Ren Qiwei takes over
According to Ziguang zhanrui, Ren Qiwei is a famous technical expert and senior enterprise manager in the industry. He has worked in semiconductor companies related to Philips, qimengda, Inspur Group and Ziguang group for more than 20 years, focusing on the R & D, mass production and sales of integrated circuit products.
In the official website, Ziguang zhanrui further introduced that Ren Qiwei, the new acting CEO of Ziguang zhanrui, has a deep technical and enterprise management background in the semiconductor industry. He was a senior engineer and project leader of Philips semiconductor in the Netherlands, mainly engaged in the design and R & D of smart card chips. After that, he joined the Xi’an R & D center of qimengda company in Germany as the design director. In 2009, he promoted Inspur Group to acquire the R & D center and restructure it into Xi’an Huaxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. as the general manager of the company, responsible for the overall operation of the company, and also served as the senior vice president of Shandong Huaxin semiconductor. After Xi’an Huaxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was acquired and renamed by Ziguang group in 2015, he served as the General Manager / President of Xi’an Ziguang Guoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd, Responsible for the development, mass production and sales of the company’s integrated circuit chips and related system products.
Ren Qiwei also served as vice president of Unigroup Guoxin Microelectronics Co.Ltd(002049) . CEO of Beijing Ziguang Storage Technology Co., Ltd. and chairman of relevant subsidiaries. As the subject leader and chief expert, Mr. Ren Qiwei has been responsible for the relevant topics of the national major scientific and technological project “nuclear high-tech foundation” and the research of the theme projects of the national “863” plan.
Ziguang and Qirui will accelerate the development and management of Ziguang’s core products and further enhance the sales of Ziguang and Qirui’s products after joining Ziguang exhibition.
farewell to Chu Qing
On February 28, a screenshot of a suspected message from Chu Qing showed that Chu Qing said that he had received the resolution of the board of directors of zhanrui to remove his duties as CEO and director. At the same time, he stressed that “zhanrui has extricated itself from difficulties in three years and has entered a strong upward development track.” It is rumored in the industry that Chu Qing will join the start-up company, but it has not been confirmed.
According to the data, Chu Qing was appointed as the co CEO of Ziguang zhanrui by Ziguang group in November 2018, responsible for the company’s product R & D, strategic planning and market development. Before joining Ziguang group, Chu Qing served as vice president of Huawei and Chief Strategic Officer of Hisilicon semiconductor.
Under the management of Chu Qing, Ziguang zhanrui carried out drastic reform, adjusted the previous nine business units to focus on consumer electronics business, industrial electronics business and pan connection business, upgraded customer structure and product positioning, got rid of the “low-end trap”, expanded the brand customer base, and entered glory, realme, Motorola, ZTE Audio transmission and Samsung Galaxy a series and other products. Zhanrui has changed the situation of focusing on functional machines in the past and entered the era of intelligent machines in an all-round way.
According to the latest statistics of counterpoint, zhanrui’s share in the global smartphone AP market reached 11% in the fourth quarter of 2021, up again from 10% in the third quarter. In 2021, the sales revenue of zhanrui intelligent machine business increased by 148% year-on-year, becoming the main force. Previously, in 2018 and 2019, zhanrui accounted for a relatively small proportion and was included in “others”. Since 2020, zhanrui has been counted separately, accounting for 4%. In the second quarter of 2021, the growth doubled to 8.4%, increased to 10% in the third quarter, broke through the double digits for the first time, and steadily increased to 11% in the fourth quarter.
continuous personnel adjustment of purple light system
Since the reorganization plans of Ziguang group and others were approved by the court in January this year, the personnel adjustment of Ziguang Department has followed. Enterprise investigation shows that Zhao Weiguo, chairman of Ziguang group, intensively withdrew from the positions of senior executives and legal representatives of several important subsidiaries of Ziguang group, including the chairman and legal representative of Ziguang zhanrui, the legal representative of Hubei Ziguang Guoqi Technology Holding Co., Ltd. and Chengdu Ziguang Guoxin Storage Technology Holding Co., Ltd.
According to the data, as the successor, Wu Shengwu, chairman and legal representative of Ziguang zhanrui, came from Ziguang department. Content: he has served as the chairman of the board of directors of 500 lottery network (NYSE, wbai) since December 30, 2019; Since 2019, he has served as the global executive vice president of Tsinghua Unigroup and the chairman of Xiamen unified Group Co., Ltd; Previously, Wu Shengwu served as deputy director of the Ministry of industry and information technology.
At present, Ziguang zhanrui is preparing for the listing of science and innovation board. Recently, zhanrui disclosed for the first time that its revenue in 2021 will exceed 10 billion yuan, realizing 11.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 78%. After this round of intensive change of command, the reporter of securities times will continue to pay attention to the follow-up development of Ziguang zhanrui.
From the perspective of the merger and reorganization plan of seven enterprises including Ziguang group, Ziguang zhanrui still has an important positioning. According to the plan, subsequent investors will increase capital investment and talent introduction in the core business of Ziguang group. Among them, in the mobile and Internet of things chip sector, investors and Ziguang group will provide IP support to Ziguang zhanrui, supplement capacity supply The introduction of downstream customers and the introduction of talents and funds will enhance the core competitiveness of the mobile and Internet of things chip sector.
