The mainland has spared no effort to nurture semiconductor companies, hoping to quickly cultivate an up-and-comer to contend with industrial giants, but may be challenged by semiconductor manufacturers in court before becoming a new market force. The mainland has invested 160 billion of billions of dollars in the semiconductor industry over the past 10 years, most of which have gone to start-ups such as Violet, the main purpose of which is to exchange money for time, to allow mainland enterprises to acquire technology quickly, and to invest in the market with Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics), SK Rexroth (SK Hynix) Amigo (micron). Before that, the mainland semiconductor factory was afraid to settle the legal dispute, according to the EE Times reported that the Violet Group and its Yangtze River storage technology, as well as jinhuagong integrated circuits and other industries have been accused of patent infringement by semiconductor manufacturers highly likely. The IC Insights CEO Bill McClean described the mainland semiconductor plant as unlikely to be able to produce chips without the use of patents from manufacturers such as Samsung. In early December, the United States issued the first shot, in accordance with the protection of Business Secrets Law, and the anti-extortion and bribery of the civil provisions of the Organization law, to the United States Federal Court in Northern California, sued UMC and Jinhuagong integrated circuits to steal trade secrets and other misconduct. McClean pointed out that this case belongs to commercial espionage, if Jinhuagong integrated circuits and other enterprises to start manufacturing chips, Samsung, Hales will have the opportunity to see whether the product is suspected of infringement, once the evidence is conclusive, mainland semiconductor enterprises will be difficult to escape the fate of litigation. In the case of the Changjiang storage, it is reported that the company is developing 3D NAND flash memory. McClean points out that it is almost impossible for any manufacturer to make 3D NAND without violating the patent of the semiconductor giant. McClean revealed that the three major patent infringement on each other to open a blind eye attitude, after all, each of them have a huge patent weapons, a lot of trouble to each other infringement will only be two defeats injury. But if the market newcomers, they may not tolerate. Samsung and the sea-Guinness, in particular, because the South Korean government regards these technologies as national assets. However, this does not mean that the patented semiconductor manufacturers are lax, they do not dare to lightly on the mainland semiconductor factory. This is a glimpse of Samsung's 2017 capital spending from $11.3 billion trillion to $26 billion trillion, and Samsung seems intent on further consolidating its own territory and not allowing mainland rivals the chance to get into the city. McClean believes that the ultimate situation of mainland semiconductor companies will not be better than the local foundry industry. Mainland's largest wafer foundry Core international was founded in 2000, the current market share of 5%, ranked fourth, far behind the market leading TSMC 59%. SMIC and the trade Huahong semiconductor at the beginning of the rapid sprint, rob the world 13% of the wafer foundry market, but now the city accounted for only 8%. TSMC has also launched SMIC's patent-theft-rich lawsuit, and the final settlement was achieved by TSMC to obtain SMIC's minority stake. McClean that the mainland semiconductor enterprises will quickly occupy some of the market, but may eventually follow the model of the foundry plant, with the passage of time and more and more subsequent weakness.
