On March 2, 2018, when the reporter came here again, he saw several buildings with five or six storeys rising to the ground and nearly 500 workers were busy. According to the plan, by the end of this month, the production equipment of the first phase It will be admission, moved into the chip plant.Currently, the construction of the facade of the chip plant has been completed, total Ping pipe network has been completed 60%, workers are clean room production area for decoration.
And in another 10 days, the grid core located in Chengdu, a subsidiary of grid core (Chengdu) Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. '(hereinafter referred to as' grid core (Chengdu)') will usher in a year-old 'birthday' - last March On the 16th, with the total investment of over 10 billion US dollars, the largest foreign investment project in Sichuan since the reform and opening up, the grid core was established in Chengdu, the largest and most advanced 12-inch wafer fab in China. Debut, growing up in the eyes of peers around the world.
Looking back at the actions Grofand has been in the country for nearly a year, it is possible to see more clearly what Grid Core (Chengdu) and 12-inch wafer projects have and are bringing to Chengdu.
A piece of the final puzzle
Settled in high-tech grid core for Chengdu to complete the industrial puzzle
Integrated circuit manufacturing is a capital, talent and technology-intensive industries, the three major conditions are indispensable.If the market is settled on the premise of Grodfide, then the industrial base is the 'big condition.' In this regard, Chengdu High-tech The industrial resume of the district is undoubtedly excellent.
In 2003, Intel invested 375 million U.S. dollars to build a factory in Chengdu, and the integrated circuit industry in Chengdu embarked on a fast track of rapid development.In recent years, Chengdu took the electronic information industry as a strategic emerging industry that highlighted development, Adopting the 'Foreign Courses + Internal Training' model, the Company will make every effort to extend its industrial chain and become China's fourth largest electronic information industry.
With the magnetism effect of 'the fourth pole of the electronic information industry', the Chengdu integrated circuit 'friend circle' represented by Chengdu Hi-tech Zone now includes Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Freescale, Spreadtrum and other international giants. The settlement of Gexin (Chengdu) complemented the last puzzle of Chengdu's integrated circuit industry chain - 12-inch wafer production and processing, forming a complete industrial chain from integrated circuit design, wafer manufacturing to integrated circuit packaging and testing. .
22FDX Process Makes Grid Core Confident
According to the plan, the grid core 12-inch wafer manufacturing base in Chengdu a mainstream CMOS process 12-inch wafer production line, the second phase of its latest 22FDX 22nm FD-SOI process 12-inch wafer production line, the total output will reach 85,000 per month Chip The 22FDX process uses a 22nm FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) transistor architecture to deliver the industry's best combination of performance, power and area for battery-powered wireless intelligence systems Mobile terminals, IoT, smart devices, automotive electronics, etc. Currently, the technology is being validated at the Fab1 Fab1 in Dresden, Germany.
Promote 22FDX process in China, the core confident. Groude's WeChat public number 'globalfoundries' on average every 3 days will push a related industry reports in a March 2 push, Georgia core Fab1 factory General Manager and Senior Vice President Thomas Morgenstern, Dr. disclosed that Sony's new generation of smart watches in the GPS chip uses the FD-SOI process, compared with the best GPS products on the market (power consumption of about 10mW), the use of FD -SOI technology chip power consumption is only 1mW, has obvious technical advantages, which makes the core core of the 22FDX full of confidence in the future.
Core-based Chengdu to build the world's industrial chain
The core of the grid is intended to be 'innovation'. In addition to bringing in new technologies, the grid core has a greater 'ambitity' in Chengdu. In May last year, Gexin announced that it would cooperate with Chengdu to promote the implementation of the FD-SOI ecosystem action plan. , Establishing a world-class ecosystem based on 22FDX technology in Chengdu. In October last year, Gexin held a grid-center (Chengdu) supplier forum in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, bringing more than 130 supplier representatives to Chengdu.
It is understood that the current domestic core VeriSilicon, Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics, National Micro, Rockchip Microelectronics and many other integrated circuit design companies have adopted the 22FDX technology to join the eco-circle plan. Core core long-term partner Malaysian friends Nissens Group also announced in January to increase investment in Chengdu - upstream and downstream enterprises at home and abroad, because of the 'grid core' piece of 'gold sign', gathered in Chengdu High-tech Zone.
In the future, the grid core will also set up a number of focus on intellectual property development, integrated circuit design center in Chengdu, incubation of local fabless companies in Chengdu, the establishment of partnerships with universities, FD-SOI-related courses, research programs And design competition ...
Based in Chengdu, the radiation world, 'innovation' ecosystem, grid core can be expected.