Brigates Microelectronics Inc. - 锐芯微电子股份有限公司

Brigates Microelectronics Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in the Kunshan Development Zone of Jiangsu Province, China. Founded in 2008, the company designs and sells CMOS image sensor chips, imaging modules, and complete camera systems, and converted to a joint-stock structure in 2019 when it brought in outside shareholders to support its growth. Its offices occupy floors 18 through 21 of Building 7 in the Xiangyu Cross-Strait Trade Center at No. 1588 Chuangye Road in Kunshan.

The company's core product portfolio spans two sensing modalities. On the visible-light side, Brigates offers small-, medium-, and large-format CMOS sensor chips, TDI (time-delay integration) line-scan sensors, radiation-hardened sensors, and single-photon sensors, sold under model numbers such as BG0836 (1928 x 1088 pixels, 30 fps), BG5002 (2560 x 2048 pixels, 120 fps), BG1336 and BG1386 (1288 x 1032 pixels, 120 fps), BG5082G (2568 x 2056 pixels, 240 fps), and BG5083 (2568 x 2056 pixels, up to 1500 fps). On the X-ray side, the company produces line-scan, area-scan, and CT image sensor chips along with matching X-ray sensor modules, and packages several of these sensors into specialty cameras, including cooled scientific cameras, high-speed TDI line-scan cameras, radiation-hardened cameras, and flat-panel fluorescence imaging cameras.

These sensors are marketed across seven application sections on the company website: scientific imaging, low-light night vision, industrial inspection, medical imaging, vehicle-mounted imaging, security and automotive electronics, and unmanned systems. In industrial inspection, Brigates supplies X-ray detector products such as the supX1512 area detector and the iDTX and iLX line-scan detector series, targeting PCB inspection, welding inspection, casting inspection, and food inspection lines. In the unmanned-systems segment the company positions its high-frame-rate visible-light sensors as the imaging front end for drones performing autonomous positioning, navigation, obstacle avoidance, and target recognition, with stated end uses including aerial photography, agricultural plant protection, logistics transport, disaster relief, security monitoring, land surveying, facility inspection, and film production.

Brigates holds more than 150 active patents and over 13 registered software copyrights, and has been recognized as a National High-tech Enterprise, a National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, a Jiangsu Provincial Innovation Team, a national-level Specialized, Refined, Distinctive and Innovative ('Little Giant') enterprise in 2024, and a Jiangsu unicorn enterprise in 2024. The company website does not disclose a stock ticker, a public listing venue, specific funding-round figures, or an employee headcount, so these data points are left unverified rather than estimated.