In recent years, China’s annual imports of integrated circuits have remained at more than US$200 billion, becoming the largest amount of imported goods. As a major integrated circuit city in China, the overall sales volume of the integrated circuit industry in Shanghai in 2017 was close to 120 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than 12%. %, Maintaining a good momentum of development. The development of integrated circuits, thanks to the market's drive, is also inseparable from policy guidance. With the support of the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and local governments, the energy level of the Shanghai integrated circuit industry constantly improving.
——Accelerate the weakness in the industrial chain. The integrated circuit industry is divided into design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, and equipment and materials. In recent years, China has emerged such as Huawei Hass, Ziguang Zengrui and other chip design leaders, SMIC, Hua Hong Group and other chip foundry leader, but in the upper reaches of the integrated circuit equipment and materials, is also facing the lack of core technology, product self-sufficiency and other issues.
Targeting this weak link, in the second half of last year, the Shanghai Integrated Circuit Equipment Materials Fund with a total size of 10 billion yuan was unveiled in the Lingang area. Chen Jie, executive deputy director of the Shanghai Lingang Administrative Committee, said that the current integrated circuit industry is The key technologies and market share of materials are in the hands of companies in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, etc. The establishment of a special equipment and materials fund reflects the determination to focus on this area.
According to reports, Xinsheng Semiconductor Co., Ltd., located in Lingang, began to realize monthly sales of 22,000 test pieces in October last year, initially breaking the situation of China's IC wafer dependence on imports. There is also a group of leading companies at home and abroad, which are currently in close contact. In contact.
- The national team, the returnees team gathered, and constantly advanced to the international advanced level. When it comes to chip applications, people often think of consumer electronics products such as mobile phones. In fact, with the development of electric vehicles, the Internet of Things industry, industrial control chips The demand is growing.
At the end of last year, the Chinese state-owned enterprise Electronic Information Industry Group signed a contract with the Shanghai Municipal Government. One of the key areas of cooperation between the two companies is the integrated circuit industry. Liu Jinmei, assistant to general manager of Huada Semiconductor, a subsidiary of China Electronics Corporation, said that Huada will build integrated circuits in Lingang area. Process production line, vigorously develop automotive electronics, industrial control chips. The first phase of the project is expected to start production by the end of 2019.
In addition to the state-owned enterprises, the Cambrian “Unicorn” Cambrian, which was hatched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has already settled in Lingang. In response to the era of 5G, Shanghai Orange Microelectronics Co., Ltd., founded by overseas returnees, is stepping up research and development for high-speed networks. Interconnect chips.
- Integrate with intelligent manufacturing to form a good industrial ecology. As the largest development area in Shanghai, Lingang is currently building an international intelligent manufacturing center.
'Integrated circuits are the foundation of the smart manufacturing industry's ecosystem. For example, the industrial Internet will generate a lot of data, and processing will require chips.' Chen Jie said.
According to the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission, the three pillars of design, manufacturing, and equipment will be shaped in the future to promote the diversification and differentiation of integrated circuit products and to guide Shanghai's integrated circuit industry to advance to the 200 billion yuan mark.