Kinghelm Song Shiqiang's Nine Questions and Nine Answers on Beidou (Part 2)

Interviewee: Song Shiqiang, General Manager of Shenzhen Kinghelm Electronics Co., Ltd. (www.kinghelm.com.cn)

Mr. Song Shiqiang, General Manager of Kinghelm Electronics.

Mr. Song Shiqiang and Shenzhen Kinghelm Electronics Co., Ltd. have worked in the Beidou/GPS antenna and RF connector industry for more than ten years. The "Kinghelm" brand has gained popularity and influence in the Beidou navigation, positioning, RF, and microwave industry. KH series Beidou products are used in automotive electronics, navigation and positioning antennas, long-wave time-service antennas, and microwave RF connection cables, and have visibility and influence in the industry. The "Beidou Expert" public account operated by Kinghelm vigorously promotes Beidou science popularization, promotes Beidou, tells the people and stories of Beidou, and cheers for the development of the Beidou cause—not just treating Beidou as a business, but as a career. Kinghelm is an enterprise that grew up from Huaqiangbei. Mr. Song Shiqiang

has always been thinking about and exploring the development and transformation of Huaqiangbei, has written a large number of articles for Huaqiangbei, and has loudly called for purifying Huaqiangbei's business environment, hoping that Huaqiangbei will become a representative of Shenzhen's prosperity and a beautiful calling card showcasing the achievements of reform and opening up.

Interviewing media: Chip News Route 1 magazine, a media outlet under iceasy (www.iceasy.com), focusing on reporting on figures, events, and products in the semiconductor chip industry.

Kinghelm Song Shiqiang's Nine Questions and Nine Answers, Part 2:

Please introduce Kinghelm's positioning in the Beidou industrial chain.

To explain Kinghelm's positioning in the Beidou industrial chain, for everyone's convenience, I will introduce our Beidou industrial chain, which also refers to the industrial chain of the US GPS.

Kinghelm rubber rod antennas, WiFi antennas, 2.4G antennas, FPC antennas.

The Beidou satellites operating in the sky transmitting signals and the rockets sending Beidou satellites into the sky—these "national heavy weapons"—are basically monopolized by the two major groups, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The aerospace system has a stable and mature internal circulation supply chain system. To ensure that nothing goes wrong, each key node has redundancy and backup. External units, unless they have competitive technology and products, find it difficult to participate in the aerospace market. In recent years, for technical teams within the ecosystem outside the system, they have been acquired wholesale.

Kinghelm Beidou modules, antennas, RF connection cables, and terminals.

For Beidou applications, we move from the sky to the ground. The market is divided into industrial-grade and civilian-grade. Because of technical thresholds and qualification barriers, the high-tech, high-precision, and high-profit markets are also in the hands of state-owned enterprises, such as Beidou Star, Chengdu Guoteng Electronics, Haige Satellite, and related research institutes under CETC. High-precision maps, hydrographic and geographic spatial mapping, etc., are still in the hands of large companies and university research teams with a high degree of specialization.

The Beidou industrial chain is mainly divided into three major links: upstream basic electronic components, midstream Beidou navigation and positioning data terminals, and downstream geographic location data operation services. Upstream basic components are mainly Beidou chip modules, boards, Beidou antennas, and other basic components. Beidou chips are divided into RF chips and baseband chips, which are then packaged into Beidou modules. OEM boards were previously occupied by overseas companies such as Trimble, NovAtel, and Java, but domestic companies have now gradually broken through the technology monopoly and begun to develop.

"The Beidou industrial chain is mainly divided into three major links: upstream basic components,
midstream terminals, and downstream operation services."

We at Kinghelm (www.kinghelm.com.cn) make Beidou antennas. In the civilian sector, the market is large and the prospects are good. In recent years, Beidou's development momentum has been very good, with an annual compound growth rate of 40%. Kinghelm's successfully developed "Kinghelm" BDS satellite navigation vehicle antennas, WiFi antennas, antenna connection cables, Beidou/GPS antennas, TWS Bluetooth earphone ceramic antennas, FPC antennas,

board-end sockets and other Type-C connectors, etc., are applied in Beidou satellite navigation and positioning, Beidou signal microwave RF communication signal connection and transfer, etc., benchmarking against domestic and foreign brands such as TE Connectivity, Molex, Hirose (HRS), Foxconn, and Luxshare Precision. Beidou BDS, the US GPS system, Russia's GLONASS, and Europe's Galileo navigation system all share common technical features in microwave RF signal transmission. The technologies and products accumulated by Kinghelm can all be used universally, which can help Kinghelm quickly open up the international satellite communication market.

Kinghelm Beidou/GPS antenna ceramic series.

For special industries, Kinghelm has developed Beidou high-precision antennas and non-standard custom connector cable ends, which are also the focus of Kinghelm's future efforts. These products have already won bids, and Kinghelm will continue to strengthen high-precision product R&D and business expansion, such as long-wave time-service antennas, Loran-C antennas, and geomagnetic navigation antennas. For the B3 frequency band dedicated antennas of BDS Beidou for "Belt and Road" allies, Kinghelm has also developed a series of antenna products.

Kinghelm supplies Beidou/GPS dual-mode antennas to Sinotruk.

The volume of civilian Beidou/GPS antennas and connectors is large, and these are all markets that Kinghelm (www.kinghelm.com.cn) must dig deep into! At present, Kinghelm is still continuously accumulating and developing.