On the evening of August 20, the "Top 100 Strong Chips List Release and Awards Banquet" at the 6th Integrated Circuit Design Innovation Conference (ICDIA 2026) was grandly held at the Yangtze River International Conference Center in Nanjing. Shenzhen Chipsailing Technology Co., Ltd., with its independently developed A4101C glass-based fingerprint recognition chip, stood out from nearly 400 submitted products and was awarded the "2026 Top 100 Strong Chips — Innovation Breakthrough Award."
How Prestigious Is This Award?
The "2026 Top 100 Strong Chips" selection is guided by the Integrated Circuit Design Innovation Alliance and the former "Core High Base" National Science and Technology Major Project Expert Group, and organized by the ICDIA Organizing Committee. It is one of the most authoritative annual recognition platforms in the field of integrated circuit design.
This year's selection attracted nearly 400 chip products from over 300 companies nationwide. After the initial review by the organizing committee, 216 products from 171 companies made it to the final round. The judging panel consisted of 11 experts — 5 from the Integrated Circuit Design Innovation Alliance, 2 editorial board members of "China Integrated Circuit," 2 senior IC industry experts, 1 automotive-grade chip expert, and 1 home appliance and consumer electronics expert. The comprehensive scoring mechanism adopted "30% online voting + 50% expert scoring + 20% on-site presentation," with strict evaluation across multiple dimensions including technological advancement, market potential, and industrial value.
More importantly, the "Innovation Breakthrough Award" has one non-negotiable requirement: the product must already be in mass production, commercially available, and validated by the market.
A4101C: A Pioneering Glass-Based Chip
The A4101C is Chipsailing's independently developed glass-based fingerprint recognition chip. Adopting a glass-based process, it integrates 616 analog sensing channels on-chip. Through configurable operating modes and a cascading architecture, it breaks through the physical limitations of traditional silicon-based chips in terms of area and channel count.
Take the Chipsailing FAP60 fingerprint and palmprint scanner as an example: by cascading multiple A4101C chips, it achieves full-palm fingerprint capture at an equivalent resolution of approximately 1500×1600, turning large-area, multi-finger simultaneous capture from "theoretically feasible" into "engineeringly practical."
This chip targets a niche segment with growing demand but limited supply options — large-area fingerprint recognition. Bank counters, customs and border control, law enforcement, neonatal footprint collection in hospitals — these scenarios demand extremely high precision and coverage in fingerprint capture. Chipsailing's glass-based process offers a brand-new technological option for these applications.
The World's First Mass-Produced Glass-Based Fingerprint Chip — The Market Has Already Spoken
In the niche field of glass-based fingerprint recognition chips, Chipsailing is the world's first company to achieve mass production. The A4101C has reached an annual output of over 1 million units, with a market share exceeding 20% and a repurchase rate above 90%. It is widely deployed in professional identity authentication scenarios including banking, customs, law enforcement, and healthcare.
Behind these numbers lies the market's most authentic vote of confidence — not built on concepts and pitch decks, but on the product's day-in, day-out reliable performance in real-world scenarios, earning the sustained trust of customers.
From Shenzhen to the World — Leading the Global Glass-Based Fingerprint Chip Industry
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Shenzhen, Chipsailing holds over 180 patents and is committed to full-chain independent control — from chip design and algorithms to mass production, all developed in-house.
Winning the "2026 Top 100 Strong Chips — Innovation Breakthrough Award" is an authoritative recognition of Chipsailing's technology roadmap, and a powerful testament to the company's innovation capabilities in chip technology. The chip industry has never been a sprint — it's a marathon. And Chipsailing is already running ahead of the pack.
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