'China Core' | On the way: 'The City of Chips' | New immigrant generation in Nanjing Jiangbei

Early in the morning, from Beijing to Nanjing, and then back to Beijing on the same day. For Wu Lifeng, general manager of Nanjing Jiuxin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., such a run is coming to an end – waiting for the company’s office in the Jiangbei New District of Nanjing to end this year. After the renovation is completed, you can formally settle in and start the local R&D and technical services.

Wu Lifeng told the reporter of the First Financial Bureau that with the arrival of TSMC's 12-inch wafer fab in the Jiangbei New District, both the technology and the scale began to have an agglomeration effect, which is attracting a large number of various semiconductor companies to gradually form integrated circuits. Industrial Ecology. Nine core technology settled in the Jiangbei New District. 'You can chat with customers at any time. Instant feedback. Can quickly solve problems in the use of tools. It is a good thing for both parties.'

It is not only Wu Lifeng that concentrates on the future chip industry gathering in Jiangbei New District.

As a leader in the field of domestic chip design, Spreadtrum Communications Co., Ltd. (now known as 'Ziguang Zhanrui'), which was acquired by Qinghua Ziguang Group in 2013, has also established a subsidiary in the Jiangbei New District with a total investment of approximately RMB 5 billion. CPU, 5G, mobile intelligent terminal systems and software are the core contents of the R&D work. It is planned that within five years, the scale of personnel will gradually reach more than 1,000 people, achieving a total sales volume of approximately RMB 3 billion. Ziguang Zengru Nanjing company official stated that Nanjing is the domestic leader. The 5G pilot cities were approved, which is also an important reason why they settled in the Jiangbei New District.

At present, the entire Jiangbei New Area has attracted about 200 IC companies, including TSMC, Violet Storage, ARM, Synopsys, Zhongwei, Huada nine days, and Solomon’s leading domestic and overseas companies. Leading companies. From chip design to wafer fabrication, to chip packaging, finished product testing and terminal manufacturing, upstream and downstream companies are accelerating their concentration. Only last year, more than 100 IC companies were added. About half of the 10 IC design companies have gathered in the new district and the entire industry chain has gradually formed.

Undoubtedly, industrial agglomeration is an important prerequisite for building a 'chip city'. To make the new district continue to attract talents and retain talented people, it also needs the perfection of all aspects of medical, educational and other supporting facilities. As capital, talent and technology In the highly demanding high-tech industry, the chip industry is particularly dependent on talent. In addition to nurturing basic talents with local colleges and universities, attracting sophisticated chip technology 'immigration' is a faster way. The first generation immigrants who have or will be settled in the new district We have dreams of facing real challenges.

Popularity warms up

Liu Yu (a pseudonym) is a scientific researcher in a chip company in the Jiangbei New District. He told the CBN reporter that most colleagues in his team left the company in Shanghai and came to Nanjing. Due to the lower cost of living, some young people He decided to buy a house in the Jiangbei New District and decided to settle in the area. There are also some colleagues working in Nanjing Yuhuatai District and are also considering moving their home to Jiangbei.

'Some of the technical staff working in Kunshan foreign companies also came to me to help promote and see if they could return to Nanjing to work. ' Liu Yu said that the talents returning to Nanjing and choosing to Jiangbei New District are increasing rapidly, 'Formerly in the canteen of the park.' For dinner, there are meals around the meals. If you arrive in a few minutes late, you may have no food to eat. The development is particularly fast.

Ye Ling, Minister of Enterprise Services Department of Jiangbei New District Research Institute, also told the First Financial Reporter that with the rapid increase in the number of enterprises entering the New District, the construction progress of the carrier has not kept pace. They are trying to find ways to rent out the surrounding civil research carriers. , Supplying innovative companies that have been entering the market. Since the second half of last year, more and more high-end talents returning overseas have begun to pay attention to Jiangbei New District.

Bo Yong Intelligent Technology founder and CEO Song Yonghua is from the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, Silicon Valley company Marvell entrepreneurs.

In 2016, Song Yonghua, who has established an R&D team through internal entrepreneurship, established his own company and established R&D and operation headquarters in Jiangbei New District. At the same time, he established research and development centers in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, USA and Hsinchu, China.

Song Yonghua told the reporter that the selection of a R&D headquarters in the Jiangbei New District was due to the fact that it was Nanjing itself and had feelings for Nanjing. It also saw Jiangbei New Area as the only state-level development new area in Jiangsu, which will be the industrial cluster of integrated circuits. It is beneficial to the future development of the company. In addition, the open and pragmatic attitude of the Jiangbei New District management team also left him a good impression.

Wu Lifeng is a high-end R&D talent who has returned to the United States from the United States through the National Thousand Talents Program. As the largest provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools in China, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huada Jiutian, Nanjing Jiuxin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. mainly undertakes the development of various advanced EDA tools.

The EDA tool platform is the cornerstone of the integrated circuit industry. At present, China is relying heavily on foreign EDA technology in the key chip from the design to the manufacturing process. It urgently needs to improve the chip design full-process EDA tool system for the improvement of independent intellectual property rights.

Wu Lifeng said that although there is still a large gap between the international level and the overall level, after years of efforts, they have built a full-process platform for EDA tools and a panel design for EDA tools, which fills the domestic market. Blankness in the field. In addition, many feature point tools such as Spice circuit simulation, SOC advanced timing and clock optimization, massive circuit layout analysis tools, etc., have already reached the international advanced level, and domestic integrated circuit companies have been used in large quantities and entered the international market. market.

As EDA's technical standards need to be continuously upgraded in the market, it is very important to maintain close technical interaction with the company. In the words of Wu Lifeng, the establishment of a company in the Jiangbei New District is aimed at detaching customers from the local and radiated regions. Recently, the first time to understand the customer's difficulties and needs, which can provide efficient technical services.

Because of this, for the domestic market and integrated circuit design and manufacturing companies, local EDA companies have highlighted their advantages. Compared with the three U.S. giants that have monopolized more than 80% of the global market, Jiuxin Technology can achieve more Close to the demand for customized services, and put Chinese customers on a high priority, and explore with users to explore the most reasonable solution, rather than across the board.

For Chinese companies, local EDA has its unique competitiveness. In addition, the local government gives strong policy support and the talents of outstanding colleges and universities in Nanjing are also attractive to companies. 'National Institute of Microelectronics The construction of colleges and universities in Nanjing is particularly active, and it also helps us build a reasonable talent team. 'Wu Lifeng said.

Shanghai Smart Microelectronics Co., Ltd. was also one of the earliest enterprises to enter the Jiangbei New District. The company is one of the few domestic companies that has launched domestic 32-bit micro-control unit (MCU) chips. It is also the first domestic company to achieve MCU product customization.

Jiang Xingyuan, research and development director of Smart Integrated Circuits Nanjing Co., Ltd., told the First Financial reporter that apart from the industrial agglomeration formed with the presence of TSMC, the company also looks at the market base of Jiangsu's application of MCUs. Companies in Shanghai have focused on the chip design itself. , Nanjing company will face more applications.

"Now there are more than 40 companies in Shanghai and more than 30 in Nanjing. It is expected that in 3 years or so, the Nanjing company will expand to 100 people and become an R&D center." Jiang Xingyuan said. To help companies recruit talents, the Jiangbei New District government gives each person a monthly salary. Subsidy of about 800 yuan. Of the talents recruited by Smart Nanjing last year, 90% were from local colleges and universities in Nanjing.

As one of the most densely populated cities in China, Nanjing has a wealth of human resources. Southeast University, Nanjing University, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Nanjing University of Science and Technology have all established microelectronics-related majors. In order to provide enterprises in Jiangbei New District, Talents provide professional and systematic services as much as possible. The local integrated IC public service platform (ICisC), which is the nation’s first comprehensive public service platform covering talents, technology, capital, and markets, has been established. With the experience of the park, the center has established a platform for the training and service of integrated circuit talents, a technology innovation service platform, a public technology service platform, and a system application platform. The goal is to grasp the pain points of industrial development and integrate innovation resources at home and abroad. , To provide customers with accurate and professional services, help settled companies accelerate the transformation of results.

'The government provides services in terms of policy, supporting environment and land, and the specific connection with companies, in-depth understanding of the needs of each company to provide accurate services, we need to do by our professional team. ' Nanjing integrated circuit industry service center integrated management Department Director Lu Huijun told the CBN reporter that during the two years of recruitment, he received more and more resumes of talents working in Shanghai. With the increase of local government support efforts, many excellent chip talents began to want to return. Working and living in Nanjing. Together with the advantages of industrial agglomeration, coming back to this option is also good for their career development.

However, Liu Yu also stated frankly that this year when helping the company to do campus recruitment, it was found that those who went to school or were born in Anhui and Jiangsu preferred to come to Nanjing, while those from Zhejiang or western cities still preferred Shanghai and Beijing. Compared to Shenzhen and Shenzhen, the later Jiangbei New District needs to face up to the issue and make full use of it.

Shuangchengji and talent gap

Like Wu Lifeng, who travels between Beijing and Nanjing, Jiang Xingyuan, who has already settled in Shanghai, frequently travels between Shanghai and Nanjing. For Liu Yu, Shuangchengji will continue for a long time because of their Family members are still in Shanghai.

'Children are studying in Shanghai. Together with the education in the New District, medical care has not yet been improved. Many Shanghai talents may not be able to feel at ease. After all, it is still very difficult for a family to change a city. ' Liu Yu said, therefore, the company's next Staff expansion will be based on local recruitment.

Song Yonghua stated that team members in Silicon Valley and Hsinchu will regularly visit the Jiangbei New District to exchange with the Nanjing team to help them grow quickly. Under appropriate conditions, the company will also introduce overseas talents. But for now, the housing, treatment, transportation and The overall environment is also facing challenges.

In Ye Ling’s view, to fill the talent gap in the 'Chip City', it is necessary to have active measures to attract high-end talent from the outside world. On the other hand, we must also focus on nurturing local talents to make full use of local talents in Nanjing.

At the beginning of 2018, Nanjing City successively promulgated the No. 1 Document of the Municipal Committee of the People's Republic of China on “Establishment of Several Policy Measures with a Global Influential Innovation City” and “Implementation Opinions of the Municipal Government on Further Enhancing the Work of Rehabilitating Personnel”, and put forward ten policy measures to build a comprehensive Sex Science Center and Technology Industry Innovation Center; In the past two years, the Jiangbei New District has promulgated the “Ten Policy Measures for Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, the Lingqin Plan and the “Entrepreneurship Jiangbei” talent ten policy, which are also targeted at R&D institutions, intellectual property promotion, and innovation. Many small and medium-sized enterprises and young talents have given support. Among them, R&D institutions and headquarters have settled in the new district, which can receive up to 30 million yuan in support; a single innovative startup company can obtain up to 30 million yuan in comprehensive financing; the top qualified talent team meets the highest standards Comprehensive support of 100 million yuan will be available, and the highest level of entrepreneurial talent will receive up to 2.5 million yuan of financial support. Young university students can also achieve zero-cost entry in the new district.

According to Ye Ling, Research and Innovation Park provided about 500 talent apartments, which are basically saturated. Liu Yu lived at a rent of more than RMB 1,000 per month, and most of his colleagues also live in talent apartments. .

Yang Jun, a professor at National Southeast University’s National Special Integrated Circuit System Engineering Technology Research Center, said that he plans to move both the lab’s teachers and students to the Jiangbei New District and interact with the companies in the park.

In response to the current talent situation in the industrial development of the Jiangbei New District, the local government relied on the Nanjing Integrated Circuit Industry Service Center to provide three major measures. First, accelerate the introduction of quality training institutions and teachers at home and abroad, operate in a market-oriented manner, innovate the personnel training mechanism, and provide professionalism. Education curriculum; Second, through the joint establishment of the National Demonstration Microelectronics School (Nanjing) Talent Cultivation Alliance, Jiangsu Engineering Application Talent Development Alliance, to create an integration of production, study and research, and collaborative educating people exchange platform; Third, to provide recruitment and training services centered on the needs of enterprise talents. Reduce the cost of corporate training and improve the efficiency of corporate recruitment. Lv Huijun said that the ICisC talent training center covering an area of ​​7,000 square meters will be put into use in July. It is expected to cultivate more than 5,000 integrated circuit professionals in 5 years and provide sufficient industrial development for the region. Talent supply.

The person in charge of Ziguang Zhanrui Nanjing Branch stated that when it settled in Jiangbei New District in 2016, it encountered difficulties in talent introduction and life support. With the improvement of the local talent policy, the living environment and other integral environments, more than a year ago, The company has attracted nearly 100 integrated circuit related personnel to join.

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