Shanghai patents satellite navigation chip

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Source: CCTV.com | 02-23-2008 11:30

Shanghai's commerce authorities say researchers there have developed their own core processing chip for China's nascent Beidou satellite navigation system. The Navigation No.1 is China's first patented GPS chip.

Shanghai's commerce authorities say researchers there have developed their own core processing chip for China's nascent Beidou satellite navigation system.

Before Navigation No.1, China's Beidou navigation system was highly dependent on overseas products, such as the European Galileo system and the US-made Global Positioning System or GPS. The developer of

Navigation No.1 said their products were independently developed and were better than their foreign counterparts in many ways.

Shanghai's commerce authorities say researchers there have developed their own core processing chip for China's nascent Beidou satellite navigation system.

Yang Hong, marketing director of Shanghai Fukong Hualong Micro-system Tech, said, "The chips used to be as big as a mobile phone, but now they are as small as half of the size of your nail. Second, they used to cost 20 thousand yuan each, but now we can bring that down to less than one thousand yuan. Finally, they are energy efficient."

Navigation No. 1 will substitute all foreign chips in the Beidou navigation system, and that will break the current monopoly in the satellite positioning and navigation market. Navigation No.1 will be widely used in forest fire proofing, emergency aids, and to measurement of land.

Editor:Liu Fang