Adaps Photonics and Hasco’s automotive electronics subsidiary have collaborated to develop a core sensor, the all-solid-state lidar, achieving a significant breakthrough in the application of core chips (such as SPAD chips). Hasco’s subsidiary is a professional and comprehensive automotive parts system integration supplier, while Adaps specializes in 3D sensor chips and systems. Their strategic partnership aims to enhance ADAS performance and provide users with a safer, ‘smarter’ driving experience. The new solution has high-integration chips using large silicon wafer bonding technology, enabling the miniaturization of solid-state lidar. It also achieves high-density pixels, ensuring excellent range performance for lidar, real-time obstacle detection, and more precise environmental sensing. The rapid progress in lidar technology based on pure solid-state image-level SPAD chips also suggests its broad future application in smart vehicles. Amidst fierce global competition in the sensor field, we will further strengthen joint development efforts with major partners, continuously advancing solid-state lidar to achieve image-level 3D perception capabilities, fully supporting the future upgrade of 3D perception systems in smart vehicles.
About Adaps Photonics
Adaps Photonics, established in May 2018 by Ph.D. graduates from Stanford and Delft Universities, has extensive expertise in SPAD technology. The company excels in full-stack SPAD device design, and holds numerous patents. Their offerings include SiPM, single-photon imaging SPAD array chips, and multi-point dToF chips.
In 2021, they produced 3D-stacked SPAD array chips and achieved the world’s highest pixel SPAD array chip by 2023, enabling solid-state 3D camera imaging. Their 905-nm SiPM set a world record with a 25-per-cent PDE and earned an AEC-Q102 Grade-1 automotive certification.
The company’s products are integrated into various leading manufacturers’ supply chains. Adaps is China’s sole 3D sensing chip design company competing globally, and focuses on advancing array and solid-state technologies. Their high-resolution ADS6311 chip, released in August 2023, features a 768 × 576 SPAD array and 256 × 192 point cloud resolution, making it a leader in automotive and robotics lidar applications.
About Hasco
Hasco is an automotive component supplier with over 40 business areas. The company has 28 directly invested subsidiaries, many of which have more than 30 years’ history. There are 465 R&D, manufacturing, and service bases and over 120,000 employees worldwide.
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In 2021, Hasco initiated a partnership with Opsys Tech for a China-market joint production plan for customized lidar products based on Opsys Tech lidar technology.
