From March 14th to 16th, SEMICON CHINA 2018 kicked off at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. In this exhibition, the reporter of Microblog noticed that Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as “Huali”) was in the exhibition area. The HR booth was set up to directly interview and recruit talents at the exhibition site. This is the first time that Huali has directly recruited talents at the exhibition. The positions include technical and management positions.
Set micro-reviews: Mainland Semiconductor listed companies invested more in core technology development than before.
2. Representatives of the two associations to develop the pulse chip industry
In recent years, despite the easing of the 'bottleneck' restriction on certain manufacturing fields in China, it still depends on a large number of imports each year. The government work report proposes to speed up the construction of manufacturing powers, and to promote the development of integrated circuits, fifth-generation mobile communications and other industries. Fundamentally crack the 'bottleneck' of the chip, representatives and members of the industry have provided advice and suggestions.
Set Micro Comments: The future representatives from the semiconductor industry will certainly more and more.
3, March mobile phone conference protagonist is it? MediaTek P60 release, AI blessing
On the 14th, MediaTek held a press conference in Beijing to formally release its first-generation smart phone system-on-chip (SoC) with built-in multi-core artificial intelligence processor (Mobile APU: AI Processing Unit) and NeuroPilot AI technology. P60. The introduction of the AI function makes the P60 significantly improved in terms of power consumption, speed, etc. The optimization and upgrade of the current mainstream functions as well as popular applications such as face, speech recognition, video camera, beauty, background blur, and games are also enabled. P60 has a stronger market competitiveness. In the wave of new products released by handset manufacturers in March, new products including OPPO, VIVO, Meizu and many other manufacturers will be equipped with P60. In the price range of smart phones 2000-3000, MediaTek Will give competitors Qualcomm no small pressure.
Set micro-reviews: MediaTek's chip release and Qualcomm's free reunion are in time.
4, Qualcomm’s lobbying spending of US$8.3 million last year is 100 times that of Broadcom.
According to Bloomberg News on March 15th, Beijing, Qualcomm has laid the foundation for the support of the U.S. government before Qualcomm’s hostile takeover bid by Broadcom, and its lobbying spending is almost 100 times that of rival Broadcom. The lobbying documents disclosed that Qualcomm’s lobbying spending was US$8.3 million last year, and Broadcom was only US$85,000. Qualcomm’s lobbying topics included immigration, international trade, taxation, and anti-monopoly, which showed how Qualcomm has accumulated influence in Washington. It is unclear how much Qualcomm has invested in lobbying against Broadcom’s acquisition.
Set micro-reviews: In the United States lobbying costs are open, Broadcom can only show that it does not attach importance, but this Trump veto rejected Broadcom acquisition is not really the result of Qualcomm lobbying, was elected president, as if the chairman of Qualcomm also Against the list.
5, Can core Wu Hanming: Lithography process is 'monopoly', where is the 'hard' where?
President Wu Jingming Microelectronics Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and Wu Hanming, an adviser to SMIC's IC Manufacturing Co., Ltd., said that in the IC manufacturing industry, China is still in the 'chasing' era. It can be divided into four stages. In the first three stages, the scale of the industrial scale is very small. Until the fourth stage, after the related policy support and the unremitting efforts of several generations of IC people, it can be introduced, digested, absorbed, and reinvented. Relying on China's market, the domestic large-scale manufacturing process technology has reached the world’s leading mainstream 28-nanometer technology node, which is about two generations behind the most advanced 16-nanometer FinFET. With the support of major national special projects, the industrial chain construction has begun to take shape. .
Set Micro Comments: The photolithography machine was monopolized by ASML, but it was also the result of several large fabs supporting the same.
5, Why sue Xiaomi? Cool Vice President: 'We are not hot'
One of the hot spots in the new year's mobile phone circle is that veteran technology giant Cool filed a lawsuit against Xiaomi’s patent infringement. There are a lot of patents in the cool hands accumulated by the industry for more than 20 years. However, Xiaomi, who was on the IPO hot spot, was questioned by the outside world. In 2018, it was the year when China’s cell phone army had made a high-profile visit to the sea. However, the patent issue has always been the heart disease of some Chinese mobile phone manufacturers. Xiaomi and Coolpad are just standing at the poles of Chinese mobile phone manufacturers: One is the technology “old gunner”, and one is It is a young manufacturer. Why did you choose to take the millet knife this time?
Set micro comments: The use of potential infringement companies to initiate patent litigation in the listing stage is often very useful, but this time Cool will use Xiaomi's listing to make an estimate, which is difficult to achieve, because... Unicorn!
6, Broadcom Announces abandonment of Acquisition of Qualcomm withdrawing $117 Billion Offer
On the evening of March 14, Beijing time, Broadcom announced today that it had withdrawn its $117 billion acquisition of Qualcomm’s proposal. At the same time, Qualcomm also gave up the proxy battle. At the annual shareholder meeting of Qualcomm next month, Broadcom will no longer 6 Director candidates seeking their nomination entered the Qualcomm Board of Directors. Broadcom plans to move headquarters from Singapore to the United States has not changed
Set micro-reviews: Trump's decision may change the trend of the past few years, the hot mergers and acquisitions trend of the integrated circuit industry.
7. Zhou Zixue: China's Semiconductor Industry Hasn't Yet Rised
Chairman of China Semiconductor Industry Association, Zhou Zixue, Chairman of SMIC, stated at SEMICON CHINA 2018 that China's semiconductor industry has not yet reached a stage of growth. From the time of preparation and construction of the factory, the company will be able to mass-produce the product within 2-3 years of production. And it takes time to make profits. It can only be said that it is a good opportunity for Chinese semiconductor companies. We need a solid investment. The semiconductor industry is a global industry. Cooperation and win-win is the norm.
Set Micro Comments: The problem facing China Semiconductor is not only to build factories, but also how to solve the shortage of talented people, especially high-end talents, how to break through the technology and many other problems. These are not money to solve.