1. ZTE was banned, an old professor of Tsinghua Microelectronics made reflections and suggestions on personnel training;
Original title: ZTE is banned from the chip, an old Tsinghua microelectronics professor's reflection and suggestions on personnel training
Editor's note: It is said that ZTE lacks core competitiveness, but don't they want to have their own core competitiveness? ZTE's banned case reflects that China's integrated circuit industry still has a long way to go. Although China's semiconductor industry was developed as early as the 1950s It has been launched, but it was not until the country began to support it vigorously that it gained importance in 2014. The 'Hanxin Incident' of the year reflected some problems, but in the case of funds and policies in place in recent years, talents still constrained China’s integration. The biggest bottleneck in the development of the circuit industry. Yesterday evening, Professor Wei Zhou received the submission from Professor Zhou, and Zhou Zucheng, a professor at Tsinghua University’s Institute of Microelectronics who had been educated for a lifetime at the university, took his own experience in the process of moving from system to IC design. Tell me, where is the problem?
The unreliable talent led to 'early and late'
In 1956, our country proposed 'to advance to science', according to the process of foreign development of electronic devices, it was proposed that China should also study semiconductor science and make semiconductor technology one of the country's four most urgent measures. The Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held the first semiconductor Short-term training courses for the devices. Please return to the semiconductor experts Huang Kun, Wu Xijiu, Huang Guang, Lin Lanying, Wang Shouwu, Cheng Zhongzhi, etc. He will teach semiconductor theory, transistor manufacturing technology and semiconductor circuits. In five universities – Peking University, Fudan University, Jilin University, Xiamen University and Nanjing University jointly established a semiconductor physics major at Peking University to jointly cultivate the first semiconductor talents.
China has long realized that integrated circuits are the food of the information industry. In the '863 Program' 30 years ago, it was clearly stated that 'software and integrated circuits are the two high-tech fists', becoming the two countries’ key support. Industry. Prof. Zhou Zucheng was admitted to the Radio Department of Tsinghua University from Shashi Middle School in 1958. After graduating, he stayed in school. He was 45 years old and he resolutely switched from radar to zero to engage in VHSIC, introduced EDA tools, and learned about integrated circuits. Design method. It can be said that from 'using integrated circuits' to 'designing integrated circuits', we started to teach communication system simulation and VHDL courses.
Although it was a half-way monk, but this group of only half a hundred professors led a group of young promising graduate students, designed China's first communications ASIC. But the development of the integrated circuit industry is not a success, relying on these old professors is difficult In order to continue, the industry’s hope for the future is still to be placed on the next generation of training. When it was a success, Professor Zhou Zucheng discovered that a large number of talents had been lost, and the students he developed became popular, and most of them went abroad. 3. The foreign EDA company also left the company.
So the professors only have to increase their talent cultivation. The best way is to start classes and open labs.
Professor Zhou recalled that at the time, graduate professional courses were set up, including courses on system-on-chip and integrated circuit design methodology. Each class was almost packed. At the same time, a series of right-stage training courses were also given to the backbones of enterprises and research institutes. The result is still as follows: The students who attended the lecture all went abroad, and the backbone talents for enterprise training switched to foreign companies.
Why? Treatment is a real problem. Professor Zhou said that in the 1990s, one of his postdoctoral students spent 4,000 yuan per month on school expenses. Then his wife complained: I have a monthly salary at my company in Zhongguancun. To get 10,000 yuan, you only have to pay 8,000 yuan per month for the family. Then you can do whatever you like in Tsinghua. This postdoctor who can't stand the pressure has to leave.
The house is also another very real problem. Professor Zhou said that there is now a big cattle in the integrated circuit field. When he returned home to contact him and wanted to enter the EDA center of Tsinghua University, the only condition was to have a three-bedroom residence (80 square meters). No.) Housing. The laboratory could not solve this problem, but also had to let go of talent.
Therefore, although China has long been clearly aware that it has begun to develop integrated circuit projects, it is unable to retain talents cultivated due to practical reasons. There is no waiting for anyone to follow. It is true that people go to high places and believe that students at that time There is also a passion for building the motherland. Then, reality is the original intention of dreams.
Organize China Postgraduate Electronic Design Contest, Education Should be Linked to Market
Despite this, Professor Zhou is still responsible for cultivating IC talent for China, and he also waited for good news. In 1996, Huawei, who just started earning money, found Professor Zhou and expressed his thoughts of supporting IC talent. After planning, Prof. Zhou and the then deputy president of Huawei Zheng Bao used as promoters. The first 'Huawei Cup China EDA Contest' sponsored by Huawei was held at the EDA Center of Tsinghua University and lasted for 23 years. The competition is always in China. Driven by large corporations and moved forward. The top ten of the first competition has entered Huawei's office.
Prof. Zhou recalled that the graduate electronic design competition (the industry is called the R & D competition) was inspired by the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition (started in 1995). The two are related, but the difference lies in the positioning of the R & D competition is a 'High-level', 'technical innovation' communication platform, the content of the competition as close as possible to the development of the current world of science and technology.
He said that the electronic design industry is a leading industry in the electronic information industry. There are upstream, middle, and downstream industries in the electronics industry: the downstream is the manufacturing industry, and the middle reaches are the industries providing solutions. The upstream has two cores, one is the chip design (or The other is software design, that is, programming. If we master the two core technologies of electronic design upstream, that is, chip design, it is possible to bring the whole electronics industry into line with international standards. Manufacturing countries become creative countries, the core lies in electronic design, which is the core of training high-end talent.
This kind of talent is not entirely cultivated from the curriculum. To cultivate innovative thinking and hands-on ability to a large extent, it is not simply through courses. Therefore, we must create a more relaxed environment for them, in addition to the laboratory environment. There must be an exchange platform similar to this kind of national competition.
Professor Zhou said that this year, the Ministry of Education and the Graduate Education Development Center supported the development of the “Cybercore Competition.” This year it will start again at the Taiwan Institute of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University in Xiamen. For 23 years, it has still delivered a batch of IC industry. Talented people. He stressed that now many returnees are people who have gone out of China many years ago. They have quickly mastered advanced technologies in the leading foreign industrial environment. If domestically equipped with such an environment, then there is no opportunity for them to go abroad. Talents can also use the conditions created by the country to come to the fore. Professor Zhou believes that education itself should be better linked to the needs of the market economy, so that education as soon as possible to adapt to the development of the market economy.
Professor Zhou insists that a college graduate with a basic professional structure will follow him in his 3 to 5 years of graduate school, followed by his mentor, supported by the instructor’s project background, and used their most energetic energy. The curious mindset, the most novel ideas, and the concentrated efforts in designing the chip can be achieved by designing an integrated circuit. He believes that colleges and universities should be the best time for IC talents to 'inspire creativity, encourage innovation and achieve entrepreneurship'. With the support of national project background, the demand of enterprises will be driven, and the main channel for talents in universities and colleges will become wider and wider.
Positioning the leading position in the IC design industry
The IC industry chain includes design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, materials, and equipment. Professor Zhou explained the relationship between semiconductors, microelectronics, and integrated circuits. Semiconductors are materials (physics terms). Microelectronics is a discipline (a secondary discipline in the first-level discipline of electronic science and technology), and integrated circuits are products and industries.
Tsinghua's semiconductor research center began in the 1950s, studying semiconductor physics, materials, and processes. Diodes and transistors have been developed. Prof. Zhou recalls that even later in the era of transistors, gates, and small and medium-scale integrated circuits Know what this teaching room is for (such as Panda Semiconductor Radio, 130 Small Computers), but when foreign technology advances from VLSI to SoC, you don't know what Microelectronics is doing (Prof. Zhou retired from Tsinghua University in 2006) He said that the system-level integrated circuit design, the background of the electronic system of the Microelectronics Institute is not enough; the memory is the mainstay, and the level of technology is not enough. Last year, the students selected majors in the senior year to mobilize students. (Admission is a major enrollment for electronic systems, 3 After the grades, they were divided into professions) reported 'micro-nanoelectronics', pulled me in to show up and preached, and there were a few entrepreneurs in the industry (the listed company is worth billions of alumni), said one afternoon (nearly 3 hours), Nearly 20 people attended the meeting. At last, only one person said that they would choose microelectronics.
Why did the students become more and more reluctant to choose this specialty? Prof Chow believes that students do not understand the industry, think that the industry has no prospects, and that industry does not distinguish design from manufacturing. He recalls that for a long time The introduction of integrated circuits is the introduction of technology production lines. The first national ASIC conference held in Wuxi Huajing in the last century was in talks about the introduction. The long-term leadership of China’s integrated circuit industry is mainly led by the “big cows” of the manufacturing industry. The ASIC conference was also entirely dominated by semiconductors. After feedback from everyone, it was clearly stated in the 18th document of the State Council in 2000 that the IC industry chain includes design, manufacturing, testing, packaging, materials and equipment, but IC design industry Is the industry chain leader.
Why does the design industry come first? Prof. Zhou metaphorically stated that a production line was placed there and was not designed to be processed. The production line introduced was also a 'no straw.' How about the use of foreign 'm' pots? As a company to survive , Yes, but as a country, OK?
Professor Zhou said that now China's integrated circuit manufacturing has SMIC, and the design industry should make good use of SMIC, but SMIC also wants to open up a network of colleges and universities. He suggested that SMIC sponsors MPWs to universities, just like last year. Sponsorship of the opening ceremony of China's China Research and Innovation Core Contest, whether it can be started from colleges and universities to participate in the project of winning the “Chuangxin Contest” award-winning team (even if it is a teacher from the second-prize-winning project). The number of 'MPW' areas is also a good thing for encouraging the development of integrated circuit talents. Of course, attracting college teachers to take films, appropriate preferential points, the company may not suffer! Welcome to 'SMIC' this year to 'Chinese research create core competition' The sponsorship is in the 'MPW' way!
2. Hefei gathered 129 integrated circuit companies to form a complete industrial chain;
According to Hefei Evening News, the integrated circuit industry is the core of the information technology industry and is known as the “Pearl of Industry.”
Hefei, as a sub-center city of the Yangtze River Delta's world-class urban agglomeration, was laid here, and from scratch, it jumped to the 'rising star'.
Today, in just a few years, 129 integrated circuit companies have been gathered here, covering the entire industrial chain of design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment and materials, and becoming one of the fastest-growing and most effective cities in China's integrated circuit industry. .
Jing Jing falls to the new station, breaking the title 'hard core'
In everyday life, small to mobile phones, computers, home appliances and medical care, automobiles, high-speed rail, airplanes and aerospace are all inseparable from the 'heart' of chips.
Since China started late, the chip industry was once controlled by foreign manufacturers. It needs a lot of imports from overseas every year. The cost of imported chips has already surpassed that of petroleum. As for Hefei, the development of home appliances industry, panel display, automotive electronics, and green new energy are rapidly developing. , The demand for chips is huge.
The lack of 'core' pain not only restricts the upgrading of manufacturing industries, but also is not conducive to national information security. To complement 'core' has become the key to many domestic companies and even one country to master core technologies and take the road of independent innovation.
How to break the question?
On October 20, 2015, Hefei Jinghe, with a total investment of 12.81 billion yuan, formally laid the groundwork for the construction of the New Station High-tech Zone. If, as stated, BOE successfully settled in Hefei, breaking China's long-standing 'painless pain', then Jinghe Hefei, the integration project, can be said to eliminate the 'hard core'.
Hefei Jinghe Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. also became the first 12-inch driver chip foundry in the province. It is the largest integrated circuit industry project in the province and the first billion-plus-yuan integrated circuit project in Hefei.
As a result, Hefei opened the road to a "out of nothing" road.
On June 28, 2017, the first batch of trial production was completed. The first batch of wafers was formally released in mid-July; On December 6, 2017, the production was officially started.
In the exhibition hall, we not only showed the finished products of Hefei-made wafers, but also made clear from the film production, optical lithography, etching, doping, chemical mechanical polishing and other wafer manufacturing process processes. According to the plan, the crystallization of 2020 A factory building can reach a monthly production capacity of 40,000 pieces, and Hefei Jinghe is also expected to become the world's largest manufacturer focusing on panel-driven chips.
Amass 129 companies to form a full industrial chain
In fact, crystallization is just the beginning of development of Hefei 'core'.
This stage of wafer manufacturing landing, opened up the IC industry chain, so that the city's station on the forefront of industrial development.
In the same month of mass production of crystal 12-inch wafers, that is, in December 2017, the chip packaging and testing 'Gemini' project was settled in Hefei, with a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan. The headquarters of the largest semiconductor display chip packaging and testing company in mainland China will be established. Packaging COF tape production base.
Not only that, leading companies are constantly accumulating.
In the design process, the city has 102 well-known companies such as Lianfa Technology, Qunlian Electronics, Zhaoyi Innovation, and Junzheng Technology, among which 5 companies with sales revenue exceeding 100 million yuan have reached 5, and the world’s top IC design company MediaTek is even more Settled its second largest R&D center in Hefei, Hefei;
In the manufacturing process, in addition to mass production of 12-inch wafers, the Changxin 12-inch memory wafer manufacturing base project is also rapidly increasing. After the project is put into production, it is expected to occupy approximately 8% of the world's DRAM market, filling the domestic DRAM market. Blank, our city will step into the ranks of world-class memory manufacturing centers;
In the packaging and testing process, it has such projects as Tongfu Microelectronics, Xinhuicheng, COF Tape and Silicon Step.
In the equipment segment, the core-microelectronics dual-stage laser direct imaging equipment broke the monopoly of high-end laser direct-write exposure equipment, and Dahua Semiconductor's proprietary production equipment and precision molds achieved mass production sales.
The data show that at present, the city has 129 integrated circuit companies, including 102 design companies, 3 manufacturing companies, 8 packaging and testing companies, 16 equipment and materials companies, covering the entire industrial chain of integrated circuits. In 2017, the city’s integrated circuits. The industrial output value was 23.56 billion yuan, an increase of 31.03% over the same period of last year. The tax revenue was 2.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.58%, and the investment was 7.25 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.42%.
Innovative investment, tailor-made for high-quality projects 'landing'
Embark on the IC industry's "out of nothing" development track, behind its strong support is to attract investment.
As early as the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, Hefei demonstrated its powerful 'magnetic field effect' in attracting investment and capital investment.
Investment in the industrial chain of the pillar industry is carried out. A large number of upstream and downstream supporting companies have come to invest in fertilizers.
The attractiveness of the city to the project lies not only in the good location transportation, scientific and educational resources and other congenital advantages, but also in the quality services provided to the project investors. Ningbo HSBC immediately 'orders' in just three days, which can be peeped Hefei's 'Hospitality Road' - Major government-sponsored projects are led by the government to increase the protection of land, planning, and water and electricity, streamline the approval process, optimize service procedures, improve service efficiency, and ensure the orderly progress of the project. Landing.
In addition to establishing and improving the project validation mechanism, Hefei has also issued a series of policies to reduce the burden on enterprises and use policy dividends to create a 'investment highland'. It is worth mentioning that Hefei also innovated the support policy for large investment projects and adopted 'one matter and one discussion'. And other methods tailored for high-quality large-scale 'landing' method.
Hefei 'core', sprint 'world class'
All along, the state and Anhui Province have attached great importance to the development of the IC industry in Hefei.
Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology listed Hefei as one of the nine largest integrated circuit development bases in the country. The National Development and Reform Commission listed Hefei as one of the 14 key integrated industrial development cities. Some of the projects have been incorporated into the 13th Five-Year National Major Integrated Circuit. Production layout planning.
Anhui Province has listed the Hefei IC Industry Base as a provincial-level new industrial agglomeration development base.
A few years ago, Hefei lived up to the expectations, and the road to create a "core" became clearer and gradually formed its own industrial characteristics.
That is, with the local market as the traction, talent resources as a support, and highly integrated with the local industry, the three major industrial clusters of chips are formed.
Among them, in the field of panel-driven chips, Duntech Technology has been gathering in the market to create a new company in the North, Zhongdian Jingxian, Hongjing, and Longxun. In the field of home appliance chips, it has gathered companies such as Junzheng Technology and Silicon Lijie; , Automotive electronics, power chips and other fields have also been laid out.
The good news is that this year’s “Government Work Report” in Hefei has clearly put forward: 'To promote new types of display, integrated circuits, photovoltaic solar energy, intelligent voice and artificial intelligence and other strategic emerging industries have developed into world-class industrial clusters.'
What is even more exciting is that at the beginning of 2017, the construction plan for the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center was approved. With the presentation of the basic platform of the 'Zuo Zihao' innovation system, it will provide a stronger source of innovation power for industrial development. Hefei builds 'China's Capital of IC' is just around the corner.
According to the plan, during the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the city will focus on the improvement of the 'Hefei Core', 'Hefei Production' and 'Hefei Use' chains, and will strive to develop the design and manufacturing of memory chips, driver chips and specialty chips, and strive to achieve breakthrough in production value by 2020. 50 billion yuan, manufacturing and design industries are among the top five in the country.
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Hefei's chip company
The fire of the stars can pave the way. For a few years, Hefei brought together 129 IC companies, covering the entire industry chain of design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, and equipment and materials. The IC industry in this city used to be a desert. Today, This has become a vibrant oasis in China's integrated circuit industry. The accumulation of the project, Hefei 'core' behind the rise is the accumulation of a family integrated circuit companies intensive cultivation. Today's newspaper selected several companies, allowing you to enjoy the charm of Hefei.
● China 'core' will achieve Hefei - Hefei Jinghe Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd.
This is the first 12-inch wafer foundry enterprise in Anhui, and is also the first multi-billion-level integrated circuit project in Hefei. The integrated circuit is a miniature electronic device or component, and the wafer is the carrier for the production of integrated circuits. From thin-film generation, optical lithography, to etching, doping, chemical mechanical polishing, and wafer fabrication processes. The 12-inch production line represents the most advanced wafer fabrication technology. The first batch of wafers was officially launched in July of last year. Line. According to the planned monthly production capacity of 5,000 pieces, the full production capacity will reach 40,000 pieces/month in 2019, filling the gap in the domestic driver IC industry.
●Chip packaging and testing 'Hefei manufacturing' at the forefront - Tongfu Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
As the top three IC packaging and testing companies in China, Tongfu Microelectronics has already established an advanced packaging and testing industrialization base in Hefei. After the two phases of the project are all completed, it will be able to form an annual output of consumer products, with about 21.7 billion integrated circuits and other integrated circuits. The output value is about 14 billion yuan. It is worth mentioning that Tongfu Microelectronics is the first company in China to independently develop advanced sealing and measurement technology, which can effectively reduce manufacturing costs and significantly increase production efficiency.
● China's first 19nm memory will be born in Hefei - Hefei Changxin IC Co., Ltd.
As one of the earlier companies to invest in fertilizers, Zhaoyi Innovation established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Hefei in 2013. Hefei became the company’s second largest research base after Beijing. In 2016, Zhaoyi Innovation launched a heroic post, starting with Fertilizers create a chip company that integrates design, manufacturing and processing. Currently, the Hefei Changxin high-end universal 12-inch memory wafer R&D and manufacturing project settled in the Hefei Airport Economic Model Zone has been successfully implemented. After the project is completed and put into production, it is expected to occupy the world's DRAM market. About 8% share. At present, the Changxin project is being installed. This year is expected to create the first 'Hefei made' 19-nanometer 12-inch DRAM memory, which will also be the first 'Hefei made' memory. .
● 'Hefei made' lithography equipment will break the monopoly of foreign countries - Hefei Fuxin Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd.
As the only company capable of manufacturing 'semiconductor nanoscale plate making and lithography equipment' in China, the company is relying on the advantages of laser direct writing technology in the semiconductor field, ultra-precision semiconductor alignment technology, high-speed data processing technology, and ultra-high resolution. The line width lithography technology was transplanted and applied to advanced packaging, and laser direct imaging equipment for printed circuit boards became the only manufacturer of laser direct writing exposure equipment with complete independent intellectual property rights in China. Its core products were semiconductor lithography equipment and laser direct Imaging equipment can directly compete with European, American and Japanese manufacturers, breaking foreign monopoly.
(Reporter Li Jing Lotteon) Zhongan Online
3. Xiong'an New District promotes the development and industrialization of intelligent sensing chips;
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council recently approved the “Outline of Hebei Xiong'an New District Plan” (hereinafter referred to as the “Outline”), and the Xinhua News Agency broadcast the “Outline” on April 21st.
The "Outline" pointed out in the "Chapter V Development of High-end Hi-tech Industries" that it aimed at the cutting-edge of the world's science and technology and faced the country's major strategic needs by actively accepting the non-capital functioning of Beijing in line with the orientation of the New District, actively absorbing and aggregating innovative factor resources, and setting a high starting point. High-end high-tech industries, promote the deep integration of military and civilian development, accelerate the transformation of traditional industries, and build a modern industrial system that integrates real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance, and human resources.
This chapter is divided into four parts. Among them, in the section "Define the key points of industrial development", the "Outline" states:
A new generation of information technology industry. Focusing on the construction of digital cities, we will focus on the development of next-generation communications networks, Internet of things, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, and cyber security, and other information technology industries. Recently, relying on 5G to take the lead in large-scale commercial applications, IPv6 will take the lead. Layout, fostering the rapid development of related industries. The development of the Internet of Things industry, the promotion of intelligent sensing chips, the development and industrialization of smart sensors and sensory terminals. The establishment of a national new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform, focusing on the breakthrough of unmanned system intelligence technology, construction The Open Intelligent Network Vehicle Demonstration Zone supports the application of unmanned systems and industrial development. It has built an international leading industrial Internet network infrastructure and platform to form an internationally advanced technology and industrial system. It promotes the research, development and application of information security technologies and develops scale autonomy. Controlled cyberspace security industry. Advanced layout blockchain, terahertz, cognitive computing and other technology research and development and testing.
Modern life sciences and biotechnology industry. Took the lead in the development of advanced technologies such as brain science, cell therapy, genetic engineering, molecular breeding, and tissue engineering, cultivating biomedical and high-performance medical device industries, and strengthening the creation of major new disease drugs. Implementing industrialization of biotechnology drugs Demonstration project, medical device innovation and development project, health big data and health service promotion project, construction of world-class biotechnology and life science innovation demonstration center, high-end medical and health service center, and bio-industry base.
New material industry. Focus on the major needs of new materials, such as artificial intelligence, broadband communications, new display, high-end medical care, high-performance energy storage and other industrial development, in new energy materials, high-tech information materials, biomedical materials, bio-based materials, etc. Apply basic research and industrialization, break through the bottleneck of industrialization, and cultivate new growth points for industrial development in the new area.
High-end modern service industry. Integrate international services, develop financial services, science and innovation services, business services, smart logistics, modern supply chain, digital planning, digital creativity, smart education, smart medical and other modern service industries, promote the deep integration of manufacturing and service industries • Aggregate banking, securities, trusts, insurance, leasing and other financial sectors, promote financial innovation in compliance with regulations, and promote the use of advanced financial technology. Build service chains around the innovation chain, develop entrepreneurial incubation, transfer of technology transfer, technology consulting, intellectual property rights, inspections Testing and certification of technical service industries, construction of national quality infrastructure research bases. Development of design, consulting, exhibitions, e-commerce and other business services, building a world-class headquarters business base. Development of creative design, high-end film and television and other cultural industries, to create international An important base for cultural exchanges. Development of international arbitration, law firms and other legal services.
Green ecological agriculture. Build a national agricultural science and technology innovation center, develop modern biotechnology agriculture with biological breeding as the main body, promote the breeding and cultivation of nursery stock and flowers, and build a modern agricultural facility park. Integrate technology, humanities and other elements to develop creative agriculture, Adopt new industries such as agriculture, tourism agriculture and urban agriculture, and build demonstration zones for the integration of secondary and tertiary industries.
Promote modernization and upgrading of traditional industries that are in line with development direction, and promote the development of digital, network, intelligent and green industries.
4. Qingdao High-tech Zone Jiaxing Jingdian breaks the sapphire substrate dependence on the import situation;
Binhai Hi-tech Co., Ltd. has mentioned sapphire. The first thing people think of is the beautiful jewelry displayed in jewelry showcases. But it is not only jewelry. Because hardness is second only to diamond, artificial sapphire is also widely used in the industrial field. Previous sapphire substrates Relying on imports, Qingdao Jiaxing Jingdian Technology Co., Ltd., located in the high-tech zone, has broken this situation and can process 12 million large-scale sapphire wafers each year. At the same time, in order to increase the agglomeration effect of industrial development, the company’s dominant annual output value is 1 billion yuan. The semiconductor technology industrial park project will be located in the high-tech zone, and will introduce a number of semiconductor industry leaders to build an industrial R&D platform. In the high-tech zone, a semiconductor industry highland is quietly rising.
Artificial sapphire is widely used
The artificial sapphire crystal rods and wafers displayed in the exhibition hall are particularly attractive to the eye in the Hedong Road, Qingdao Hi-Tech Industrial Park Co., Ltd. The sapphire is commonly known as 'corundum' and its main chemical composition is alumina, with a Mohs hardness of 9 in nature. Second only to diamonds with Mohs hardness of 10 in the material.
Due to its high hardness, strong wear resistance, high temperature stability, etc., artificial sapphire soon replaced traditional materials and is widely used in the semiconductor and microelectronics industries, lighting industry, mobile consumer electronics, military products, and especially For LED lighting products, the main substrate material.
'Electronic enthusiasts are more familiar with the use of sapphire on mobile phones, many mobile phone lens protection glasses, home keys, watch bracelet watch mirrors are applied sapphire.' Zheng Dong, general manager of Jiaxing Jingdong introduced, with the traditional Compared with the glass screen, the sapphire screen has the dual functions of touch sensing and protection, and it also has unique advantages in satisfying the ultra-thin and intelligent display terminals and is the preferred screen material.
Grab Sapphire Development Opportunities
The sapphire industrial chain is divided into the upstream crystal rod 'growth', midstream equipment manufacturing, wafer processing, downstream product applications, and Jiaxing Jingdian main midstream wafer processing. Entering the production workshop, it is like coming to a scientific research laboratory, clean and tidy The ground, a highly automated advanced equipment, with white coats, masks, feet full 'armed' staff. Here, processing 12 million large-scale sapphire, annual output value of 560 million yuan.
The date back to 2009, when domestic sapphire substrates basically relied on foreign imports. Prior to entering the sapphire industry, Zheng Dong has long been engaged in investment work, and often pays attention to the development of the industry. He learned that sapphire's huge development opportunities and dependence on foreign imports桎梏 桎梏 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 认为 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 Sapphire's Quest Road.
Talent support and capital investment are all problems that need to be solved. When the founding team attracted top foreign R&D talents, it gradually acquired a self-developed ready-to-use sapphire substrate wafer processing technology. The sapphire industry has invested heavily in equipment, raw materials. , Plant construction, etc. need to spend money, High-tech Zone gave a timely release of a series of preferential policies such as rent reduction, capital subsidies, to this just-started company plugged into the wings.
Get rid of sapphire substrate dependent imports
Relying on the government’s policy support and the company’s high investment in R&D and manufacturing, in 2010, the company strode into the semiconductor industry. From trial production, customer verification, mass production to large-scale production, it took only 7 months to build the first in the country. A large-scale, high-quality semiconductor sapphire wafer manufacturing company has broken the situation in which domestic sapphire substrates are completely dependent on imports.
At present, Jiaxing Jingdian realizes the production of 2-inch, 4-inch and 6-inch serialized products. It not only participates in the formulation of industry standards, but also has higher surface roughness, flatness, warpage, and bending than other indicators. The International Semiconductor Association Standard and China National Standard have become the largest supplier of graphic substrates and the largest vertically integrated company in China. It is also the leading representative of the highest level crystal manufacturers in China.
Construction of Semiconductor Technology Industrial Park
Zheng Dong said that the sapphire industry has experienced a wave of reshuffle after a severe oversupply, and the development and competition of the industry has gradually entered a new era. The macroscopic effects of industrial agglomeration and industrial clusters have become more and more prominent. The construction is led by Jiaxing Jingdian. The annual output value of 1 billion yuan in semiconductor technology industrial park project came into being.
In March 2018, the signing ceremony of the semiconductor technology industrial park project was held in the high-tech zone. The total investment of the industrial park was 280 million yuan. It will be built according to the professional park model, introduce a group of leading companies in the semiconductor industry, build a common industrial R&D platform for companies, and promote semiconductors. R & D and later industrialization.
As soon as the relevant high-end industries are introduced into the Hi-tech Zone as soon as possible, Jiaxing Jingdian also hopes to develop semiconductor accessory equipment manufacturing and higher-end semiconductor materials. 'Even if the number of sapphire substrates produced in China leads the world, manufacturing There are many equipments or imported equipments. If there is any spare capacity, we hope to manufacture domestic equipments instead of imported equipments, help China ZhiZhi 2025, and build the whole industry chain of the semiconductor industry. ' Zheng Dong said.
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Third-generation semiconductor materials ready to go
In recent years, third-generation semiconductor materials represented by wide band gap compounds such as gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) have been considered as strategic technologies that have a significant impact and have caused global attention.
Zheng Dong, general manager of Jiaxing Jingdian, stated that although the development of China's semiconductor industry started late, it has become the world's largest semiconductor consumer with huge market capacity and production groups. From 2000 to 2016, China’s semiconductor market increased. Leading the world in speed, the annual compound growth rate reached 21.4%, which is much higher than 3.6% of global average annual growth rate of semiconductors. 'All governments have stepped up their deployment in the third generation of semiconductors. China also attaches great importance to it and is focusing on strengths. Realize the cornering overtaking and occupy the leading position, break through the innovation chain and value chain from R&D, engineering and application, and seize the strategic commanding height in the international semiconductor field. This is also the direction of the future development and transformation of Jiaxing Jingdian.
5.Wuxi sticks to IC industry 'Oriental Silicon Valley' 芯 'Core power'
Under the guidance of the socialist ideology of Chinese characteristics in the new era of Xi Jinping-a new era and new actions
At the beginning of March this year, the Huahong Wuxi integrated circuit R&D and manufacturing base project with a total investment of US$10 billion commenced construction in Xinwu District. This is a relocation of the 910 project since the beginning of the national integrated circuit 908 major project in Wuxi in the 1990s. This city of Wuxi, which once held the honor of the National Southern Microelectronics Industrial Base, is of great significance.
From establishing China’s first ultra-large-scale integrated circuit to establish its first-mover advantage, to the slow development of extrusion in recent years, to grab a new round of information technology development golden period, to create a new era of 'Oriental Silicon Valley', Wuxi in the integration The ups and downs in the circuit industry have demonstrated the leading position of this industrial city in the new round of high quality development.
Project Enabling, 'Wuxi Core' Rejuvenated
Since the beginning of this year, the signing of Hua Hong Project, the largest single investor in Wuxi history, broke ground in just 7 months. SK Hynix announced last year that it will not build new sites in Wuxi to build a second plant and it will immediately recruit in the coming year. Even the IC industry is congenital. The advantage is not obvious Yixing, also quickly gathered from a chip-based supporting new materials industry.
'Large projects bring about the accumulation of technology, talents and capital. The landing of three ultra-billion projects will have important strategic significance for Wuxi to fully realize its first-mover advantage in the integrated circuit industry, maintain its current competitive advantages, and accumulate future leading advantages. ' Mayor of Wuxi City Huang Qin said.
Wuxi is the earliest starting area for China’s integrated circuit industry. Once it became the only two high-tech national microelectronics industry bases recognized by the National Development and Reform Commission in China. In 2014, the State Council promulgated the “Outline for Promoting the Development of the National Integrated Circuit Industry”. After a new wave of development of the integrated circuit industry emerged, Wuxi’s integrated circuit industry suffered a lack of strong policy measures, breakthrough innovations, and the support of major projects.
'Grasping a new round of development opportunities and letting integrated circuits become pillars of high-quality development in the Wuxi industry once again.' Zhou Wendong, director of the Wuxi City Economic and Information Commission, introduced that in April last year, Wuxi issued a new generation of "accelerating development with the Internet of Things as a leader." The three-year action plan for the information technology industry clarified that integrated circuits were the key development areas. In February of this year, Wuxi also launched the “Opinions on Further Supporting the Development of the Integrated Circuit Industry” to further empower the industry.
Major projects relied on strong policies to lead the 'Wuxi core' to rejuvenate its glory. Since last year, the Wuxi integrated circuit industrial chain has developed in tandem with the remarkable achievements in industrial cluster construction, including R&D and design, chip manufacturing, packaging and testing, system development, and support. The entire industry chain including materials and support services, including chip packaging and testing, has reached the world's advanced level in terms of monomer scale and technology. In 2017, more than 200 integrated circuit companies in the city achieved an output value of 89.27 billion yuan, an increase of 11% over the same period of last year. , The scale of the industry ranks first in the province, the nation's forefront.
Integration and development, strong industrial investment into 'new genes'
In early April, the good news came from the coast of Taihu Lake: Following the official opening of the 12-inch wafer-level packaging line of Zhongkexin last year, its independently-designed field programmable gate array chip was successfully developed recently, laying the foundation for companies to enter the high-end communications market. Based on a solid foundation, Mei Bing, general manager, introduced, in recent years, China Kexin has taken market applications as its traction, accelerated its entry into the Internet of Things and big data and other emerging industries. It has deployed in smart homes, smart towns, and smart cars.
Integrated circuits are the cornerstone of the information industry, and Wuxi is also a city that has been developing information technology industries such as Internet of Things, software, cloud computing, and big data earlier in the country. Last year, there were more than 2,000 Internet-related companies in the city with revenues exceeding 2,000. 100 million yuan, close to half of the province, and 1/4 of the country. 'From a global perspective, the IC industry is moving from technology to application-driven era. ' Xu Wei, executive vice president of Hua Hong Geli believes that the Internet of things and other emerging The rapid expansion of the industry in Wuxi will bring huge market application requirements. With a sound industrial foundation, the Wuxi IC industry will have a lot to do in the areas of Internet of Things, Big Data, 5G communications, and artificial intelligence.
Breaking industrial boundaries and integrating across industries, Wuxi’s many integrated circuit companies realized 'transforming and transcending'. Wuxi Xinpeng Microelectronics successfully entered the smart home appliance market with its self-developed fourth-generation smart power management chip. Home appliances power management chips occupy the first place in the Chinese market; Lixin Microelectronics, with its electronic detonator products involved in the Internet of Things, is brewing into the blockchain market this year and is estimated to bring in sales of hundreds of millions of yuan.
On March 20th, Wuxi held a new generation of information technology industry development conference in the city, which clearly integrated the development of integrated circuits and the Internet of things, cloud computing, and big data, and injected 'new genes' into the real economy of Wuxi. The city is making every effort to create Inspur Big Data. The Industrial Park promotes the industrialization of super-computing chips and promotes the development of the information industry.
Strong chain complements, holding a new era 'Oriental Silicon Valley'
The “Wuxi City's Policy Opinions on Further Supporting the Development of the IC Industry (2018-2020)” has recently come to an end, reflecting a clear orientation—focusing on chip design and strengthening the support of talented people. One person in charge of the company expressed emotion: Design and talents are the development of the industry. The shortest board, this policy came up to the idea.
According to statistics, last year Wuxi’s integrated circuit industry ranked first in the country, but there were 1,380 chip design companies in the country and 105 in Wuxi, accounting for only 7.6%. The top ten chip design companies in the country had the lowest threshold of annual sales of 2.6 billion yuan. , And Wuxi's largest design company only annual sales of about 400 million yuan.
Behind the design of the short board is a short board of talented people. 'All levels of the IC industry are lacking in talent, and the most demanding ones are high-quality design talents.' Industry insiders analysis, Wuxi needs at least 30,000 new integrated circuits by 2020. Industry talents, however, have encountered the 'three major bottlenecks': First, Wuxi’s colleges and universities lack resources, and it is not easy to obtain 'talent' on the spot; Second, the shortage of integrated circuit talent is a universal problem, and they are constantly increasing codes across the country, driving up the cost of employment; Moore's Law determines that chip technology is updated quickly, industry competition is fierce, and university graduates have little willingness to work.
To perfect the integrated circuit industry, it is necessary to strengthen the chain and break through the short board. According to the person in charge of the Wuxi City Economic and Information Commission, the newly released version 2.0 industrial policy supports chip design companies to expand through independent research and development, mergers and reorganizations, etc. Strengthen. We will use the upgraded version of Taihu Talent Plan as a guideline to increase the introduction of high-end leading talents in ICs; encourage the integration of integrated circuit related majors in universities in the city. Just last month, the city signed an agreement with Southeast University. In Wuxi, the National Institute of Model Microelectronics of Southeast University will be built. By 2020, the number of students will reach around 1,000.
The development of emerging industries requires an innovative ecosystem that supports emerging technologies, models, and enterprises. Wei Shaojun, a professor at Tsinghua University, believes that Wuxi’s development of the integrated circuit industry must completely reverse the inertia tradition of “small wealth and security”, build a courageous breakthrough, and dare to innovate. The 'big industry' thinking. 'Create a creative and entrepreneurial culture that is compatible with the development of the industry, to allow companies and talents to stay.'
Our reporter Ma Wei Xinhua Daily