Set micro-grid 2017 top ten integrated circuit hot news

Editor's Note: The year of 2017 hastily passed, and the number of stakes in China's integrated circuits this year has been endless, and we can not do without the key words of "mergers and acquisitions," "factories," "investment and financing," and "changes." Top 10 integrated circuit hot news that took place in 2017

1.15 trillion yuan! Ziguang Group by the National Development Bank and the National Fund to invest in financing support

On March 28, 2017, China Development Bank and Chinaxin Investment Management Co., Ltd. signed "13th Five-Year Development Financial Cooperation Agreement" and "Strategic Cooperation Agreement" respectively with Ziguang Group. China Development Bank will provide the " Providing a wide range of financial products and services, the intention to support the total financing of the Group of 100 billion yuan purple; China Investment intends to invest in the group intends not to exceed 500 billion yuan Purple Group, focusing on supporting the development of integrated circuits Ziguang Group-related business segments.The Purple Group The total amount of up to 150 billion yuan of investment and financing support, is bound to accelerate in the field of integrated circuit technology upgrade and enhance core competitiveness, so that the rapid continued to expand the industrial scale has received strong support.

2. Zhao Haijun replaced Chiu Tsz Wan as SMIC CEO

May 10, 2017 SMIC announced that Dr. Zhao Haijun was replaced by Dr. Zhao Haijun as the CEO of SMIC. Dr. Qiu Cunyun will remain as the vice chairman and non-executive director and will serve as full-time consultant until June 30, 2017, Effective on the same day, Dr. Chiu will work closely with Dr. Zhao to ensure the smooth handover of the leadership of the Company and will continue to participate in formulating the Company's development strategy and major decisions as a vice chairman and non-executive director.

Dr. Chow Chi Hue, Chairman of SMIC, said: 'We are very pleased to be nominated by Dr. Chiu and appointed by the Board of Directors and become Dr. Zhao as the new CEO who will lead the company forward. I also express my excellent contribution to Dr. Chiu for the company Sincerely, SMIC will continue its operation of internationalization, independence and professional management. With the strong support of the entire management team, I am confident of the future prospects of the company.

3. Heavy! ARM China settled in Shenzhen, the Chinese side holding funds

On May 14, 2017, ARM and Hou An Innovation Fund signed a memorandum of cooperation in Beijing to set up a joint venture in Shenzhen in the future, and the joint venture will become an important core intellectual property (IP) Development and service platform on January 24, by the CIC, Silk Road Fund, Temasek Singapore, Shenzhen Shenzhen Industry Group, Magnolia Investment and ARM co-sponsored the establishment of the Amgen Innovation Fund was officially launched in Beijing. The size of the fund Which is 800 million U.S. dollars.Amounting of the ARM joint venture in Shenzhen will further boost Shenzhen into a more competitive and influential modern international innovation city and an international technology and industry innovation center.

4. Former Rui Dike CEO Dai Baojia established ASR completed the acquisition of Marvell mobile communications business

ASR, a subsidiary of Pudong Kechuang Group, a subsidiary of Shanghai Pudong Newstar Newstar Venture Capital Co., Ltd., completed the acquisition of Marvell MBU (Mobile Communications Sector) in the near future (around May) ) .After the acquisition, ASR will become the only domestic baseband company in addition to Haisi has the whole network technology company, with a complete and powerful baseband platform for research and development capabilities, will provide mobile communications, Internet of things and smart handheld devices market more Excellent product solutions and efficient technical support Dai Rui Jia Ruidi company before the venture was acquired by the Purple, the resignation venture established ASR, and recently completed a new round of financing.

5. Biography Liang Meng Song joined SMIC

Following the news came in April that Liang Mengsong would serve as SMIC's chief technology officer or chief operating officer, according to DIGITIMES broke the news, a member of Liang Mengsong's generals has quietly reported to SMIC. It appears that this war of looters kicked off, SMIC International to enhance the proportion of 28 nm as the goal, is expected to start this year 7nm process research and development.SMC this year in advanced technology R & D aspects of mustering strength, the end of the year is expected to 28nm craft revenue share increased to 10% .Currently, SMIC In the 28nm HKMG process has the capacity of production, customer products are being imported stage, capacity is steadily improving.

618 million yuan! Siu Yi innovation and investment in Hefei signed 12-inch wafer memory project

October 27, 2017, Siu Yi innovation announced that with Hefei Industrial Investment Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd. on October 26 signed a "cooperation on memory R & D projects agreement," the two sides agreed in Hefei, Anhui Province economy Technology Development Zone to carry out R & D project 19nm memory 12-inch wafer memory (including DRAM, etc.) R & D projects, the project budget of about 180 billion yuan project content in Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone Airport Economic Demonstration Zone to carry out process technology 19nm memory 12-inch wafer memory (including DRAM, etc.) research and development, the goal is to December 31, 2018 R & D success.

7. Zhang Ru Jing and then venture! Corecom integrated circuit manufacturing (SIMC) settled in Guangzhou

In September of this year, Jiwei.com reported that the Huangpu District Government and the Guangzhou Development Zone Administrative Committee signed a cooperation memorandum with Dr. Zhang Rujing, the leader of Chinese chip leader. Zhang Rujing and the team plan to jointly design a chip company, a terminal application enterprise and a chip manufacturer , A total investment of 6800000000 yuan to build collaborative chip manufacturing (CIDM) project, put into operation after the expected output value of 3.16 billion yuan.It is reported that the first phase of the project a total investment of about 6800000000 yuan, with an area of ​​about 200000 square meters, capacity design 8-inch chip 30,000 per month, 12-inch chip 10,000 per month, is expected to reach output value of 3.16 billion yuan in November, the project has entered the company registration and arrangements for the land phase.

8. Li Liyou promoted the group president of Ziguang, strongly recommended Zeng Xuezhong take the sprint CEO

On November 19, 2017, Ziguang Group formally announced the appointment of Mr. Li Lixun as the co-president of Ziguang Group and the chairman of Spreadtrum Communications Co., Ltd., with Zeng Xuezhong as the CEO of ZTE Corp. Ziguang Group was transferred to ZTE Corporation as president of ZTE Corporation and the future will be In charge of the business and daily management of Spreadtrum.As the new CEO of Spreadtrum, he will make full use of the resources and capabilities of Spreadtrum to help Spreadtrum grasp the 5G initiative in the future, keeping in step with the international timetable Achieve 5G commercialization process, accelerate the development of China's IC industry.

9. Exploring DRAM behind the rise of seven quarters, 'supply and demand' or 'monopoly'?

DRAM revenue (mainly including PC memory, mobile memory, and server memory) has soared from the second quarter of 2016 to quarterly sales reversal each quarter. Several analysts pointed out that the DRAM industry's oligopoly The situation is not conducive to the healthy development of the DRAM industry.As a result of a highly monopoly industry is the result of the first three giants can easily manipulate production and prices, with lower prices to crush rivals, or use price hikes to make huge profits. It is understood that in the past few months, there have been constant reports from terminal manufacturers to the NDRC. According to the paper, Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has recently started to pay attention to the industry dynamics and will not rule out future DRAM surveys to determine the possibility of monopolistic behavior. (December 16, 2017)

10. Exclusive: crazy bitcoin! Bits Continental December 10nm orders have been over Hass

Bitcoin soared by 1,900% in the past 12 months, and the bit-mainland continent established in 2013 is undoubtedly one of the dark horses that emerge from this craze in IC design. Currently, 80% or 90% The company said that an earlier miner said the profit in the bit world could reach $ 30 million per month in 2017 and a net profit of more than $ 1 billion in the first half of 2017. The company relies on its own dedicated bitcoin mining ASIC chip Leap into the ranks of the top five IC design companies in China in 2017.