On December 30, 2024, Tianyue Advanced was awarded the Data Management Capability Maturity Model (DCMM) Level 3 certification issued by the China Electronic Information Industry Federation after strict evaluation and issuance, which is another milestone achievement of Tianyue Advanced in the development of digital and low-carbon with wide bandgap semiconductor technology.

As a leading enterprise in the field of semiconductor materials silicon carbide, Tianyue Advanced will play an important role in leading China's semiconductor industry to flourish in the direction of intelligent manufacturing and data security.

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GB/T 36073-2018 Data Management Capability Maturity Assessment Model (DCMM) is the first national standard in the field of data management in China, which was issued by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China and the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China in 2018. The standard includes 28 capability items and 445 evaluation criteria under 8 capability domains (data strategy, data governance, data architecture, data application, data security, data quality, data standards, and data life cycle). The evaluation grades from low to high are initial (level 1), managed level (level 2), robust level (level 3), quantitative management level (level 4) and optimization level (level 5).

Robustness (Level 3) requires enterprises to regard data as an important asset for the performance goals of various departments in the organization, establish a dedicated data management department, and formulate organization-level data management systems and standards. Tianyue Advanced has obtained this authoritative robustness assessment, which means that it has reached a high level of maturity in data management and has completed the standardization and systematization of data management. This means that data management is no longer a single departmental behavior in Tianyue's advanced internal mechanism, but has formed the goal management of the whole organization's joint efforts, and data has become a valuable asset for enterprises to promote organizational performance. As an important part of substrate materials and wafer manufacturing in the semiconductor industry, Tianyue Advanced has taken the lead in realizing the construction of smart factories in the field of silicon carbide substrates, and has taken the lead in optimizing processes and improving R&D efficiency through AI and digital technologies. For a manufacturing enterprise, the completion of digital infrastructure will greatly help improve the influence and competitiveness of the industry, and Tianyue Advanced will usher in another year of accelerated development.

In the semiconductor materials industry, silicon carbide is known as the "third generation of semiconductor stars", because of its high temperature and high pressure bearing capacity and high frequency and high power characteristics, which creates conditions for semiconductor devices to work under extreme conditions, and then achieve higher power conversion and control. It is understood that the technical barriers of silicon carbide are quite high, crystal growth requires high temperature of more than 2300 °C, high pressure of 350MPa, more than 200 crystal structures are easy to produce inclusions, resulting in low yield of multi-type structures, its hardness is close to diamond, processing is difficult, and the equipment cost is high. Therefore, there are strong technical barriers and asset thresholds in the processing of silicon carbide substrates.

It is worth mentioning that, thanks to the advantages of the smart factory, the production capacity and output of Tianyue Advanced Shanghai Lingang Factory have continued to increase and release, and the yield level has steadily improved, and it has the strong strength to continuously supply high-quality substrate products to customers.

At present, the global market has a strong demand for high-quality automotive-grade silicon carbide substrates, and the penetration of downstream application scenarios is accelerating. In this context, the future development of Tianyue Advanced is expected to far exceed market expectations. On the road of meeting the needs of domestic and foreign markets and working hand in hand with the semiconductor industry, Tianyue Advanced is steadily starting a new journey of data security and intelligent manufacturing.