1. The Beidou chip successfully entered the 28nm era, inciting the mid-and-downstream market;
For micro network messages, Beidou chips usually refer to chipsets that can receive signals transmitted by BeiDou satellites to complete positioning and navigation functions, including radio frequency chips, baseband chips, and microprocessors. The baseband chip is the core device of navigation receivers. And the performance usually determines the overall performance index. Its main function is to complete the capture, tracking, data demodulation of specified satellite signals, and give the pseudo-range, carrier phase and other measurement information of satellite signals.
Dongxing Securities pointed out that the strengths and weaknesses of the BeiDou navigation chip largely determine the performance of satellite navigation products. The chip technology is more directly related to the terminal volume, weight, cost and performance. It also directly affects the downstream industry development of the Beidou, and will be integrated towards the future. Low-power, high-precision, high-dynamic and other developments. Single-chip integration is a single chip that combines RF chips, baseband chips and microprocessors to improve product performance and reliability, reduce size, power consumption and Cost; High precision, high dynamics will solve the major bottlenecks that constrain the large-scale application of the Beidou satellite navigation system.
Since February 2008, China's first independently developed Beidou satellite navigation baseband processing chip, 'Leading One' announced its successful development in Shanghai. Prior to this, the Beidou receiving terminal chips were provided for US companies. In 2012, when Beidou II completed its Asia-Pacific coverage, the application of the Beidou was largely limited by chips. Organic corelessness was once a bottleneck for the development of the Beidou industry. After five years of development, the current chip technology has been upgraded from 0.35 micron. By 28 nanometers, overall performance has reached or even surpassed that of similar international products.
With the gradual maturity of the Beidou chip technology and the acceleration of global networking, the Beidou industrial chain will gradually mature. The upstream, middle, and lower reaches will exhibit a stable industrial chain output value distribution structure of 1:4: 5. Dongxing Securities expects to reach the upper reaches by 2020. The output value of data, chips, and modules in the entire industry chain is stable at around 10%, and the output value is about 40 billion yuan. The production value of system integration and terminal integration in the middle reaches accounts for about 40% of the entire industrial chain, and the quality of end products. There will be a huge leap in the number of users, and the international competitiveness of the industry will be greatly enhanced. The contribution value of the downstream operational service output value is expected to reach 50% of the total output value, and the level of application services will also be greatly increased.
2. The lack of chip talent Microelectronics or into this year's explosive models professional?
Reporter Zhou Hui Intern Zhang Jianlin Beijing Report
After the college entrance examination, the next question is how to choose a major.
The latest professional annual filing and approval results announced in 2018 showed that big data and artificial intelligence have become the hottest majors of growth, and the related professions in the integrated circuit industry have also slightly increased.
After the ZTE Incident, accelerating the development of the integrated circuit industry became a consensus of all countries. The white paper issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology mentions that 700,000 people are currently required to invest in the industry. Insufficient talent leads to a slow pace of independent innovation in China's integrated circuit industry.
In this context, what are the new changes in the enrollment of integrated circuits related to microelectronics? 21st Century Business Herald learned from some colleges and universities that in recent years there has been an increase in enrollment of related majors, and some schools are still substantially enlarging their enrollment.
Scarcity of talent in the industry requires additional recruitment
The "Notice of the Results of the 2017 Undergraduate Professional Filing and Examination and Approval Process" issued in March this year shows that there were a total of 2,311 newly-added specialties involving 135 colleges and universities. Among the newly added undergraduate programs, 250 universities and colleges added 'Data Science and Big Data Technology' Professionals; 18 colleges and universities have added cyberspace security expertise, and 60 universities and colleges have been approved for robotics engineering.
The 21st Century Business Herald combed out and found that 6 universities and colleges have increased their microelectronics engineering specialty, including Tongji University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Henan Polytechnic University, Hunan Institute of Technology, Henan Normal University, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Microelectronics. Professionalism can't be compared with big data, artificial intelligence and cyber security, but it is also an increase.
According to Ding Bosheng, a professor at Southeast University, the number of Ph.D. students in the School of Microelectronics has increased from the previous 20 to more than 180 recently. An industry practitioner who is preparing to apply for a PhD from Southeast University also said that the current IC professional The number of doctoral places has increased a lot.
Southeast University, one of the first national integrated circuit personnel training centers, has been training a large number of talents for the IC industry for many years. Professor Chen Yingmei of Southeast University told 21st Century Business Herald reporter that the enrollment of integrated circuits related to Southeast University has increased dramatically. In terms of cultivating master's degrees, the number of students enrolled in the Microelectronics Institute has increased from more than 200 in previous years to over 400 in last year.
Chen Yingmei stated that the strength of personnel training has been continuously strengthened. On the one hand, it is standing at the height of the country, cultivating technical talents capable of independent research and development, and on the other hand, it is also due to the expansion of demand for talents in the industry.
Hua Xiangshui, vice president of the School of Microelectronics of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the “Yangtze River Scholar” professor of the Ministry of Education, told a reporter from the 21st Century Business Herald that the number of non-full-time master’s degree students has increased by 120 in IC talent training. This year, we plan to expand the doctoral enrollment plan by 50%. The quota for enrollment for masters and doctoral students must continue to increase because the demand is too great.
The White Paper (2016-2017) of China's Integrated Circuit Industry Released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center in 2017 introduced integrated circuits that incorporate more than 40 kinds of scientific and technological technologies such as electronic information, physics, chemistry, and material automation engineering. In the field of engineering and engineering, integrated circuit talents, especially high-end talents, need to have a comprehensive knowledge background. At present, 700,000 people are required to invest in this industry. The shortage of talents has led to a slow pace of independent innovation in China's integrated circuit industry.
From the perspective of talent demand released by integrated circuit companies, R&D and sales are the two most demanding parts of corporate personnel. The demand for R&D positions is as high as 55%, followed by sales of customer support jobs, accounting for 18%.
What is the outlook for integrated circuit expertise?
In the soon-to-be-started 2018 enrollment, big data and artificial intelligence will undoubtedly continue to prosper. So IC-related microelectronics and other specialties will also become explosive professional?
Chen Yingmei told reporters of the 21st Century Business Herald that most of her students went to Huawei and ZTE after graduation. From a regional point of view, most of them went to Shanghai and engaged in manufacturing such as chips. It is necessary to increase the training of local IC talents. , We must actively support the cooperation between scientific research and national projects and corporate projects.
A senior practitioner graduating from Huazhong University of Science and Technology told a 21st Century Business Herald reporter that he is optimistic about microelectronics and other related professions. On the one hand, the country attaches great importance to it. On the other hand, the industry needs are relatively large. China's manufacturing of 2025 is inseparable from microelectronics. The treatment of scarce talents will naturally increase.
A graduate of the Physics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is also very optimistic. Now that more and more people around him are transferring to the semiconductor industry, the future prospects of high-end talent in the industry and 'money scene' should not be worse.
A financial practitioner who graduated from Nankai Microelectronics in the 1990s told a 21st Century Business Herald reporter that 60% of his students in the class are engaged in chip design related industries. Most of them are in foreign companies, private enterprises, and salaries are also good. At present Under the background of developing the national chip industry, the industry emphasizes the accumulation of experience, and their future income is more optimistic.
Jia Kai, a young teacher at the School of Public Management at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, entered the Tsinghua Electronics Department in 2005. The master's degree in the Chinese Academy of Sciences is also in the direction of microelectronics. Dr. Tsinghua read public administration at Tsinghua University. Jia Kai told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter, Tsinghua Department of Electronics. In the annual undergraduate enrollment, the enrolled students belong to the group with higher enrollment scores in the same period, and the microelectronics professional orientation score is also very high. Among the undergraduates graduated from that session, less than three points were actually engaged in IC-related work. One-third engaged in the Internet technology industry, and one-third turned to finance, consulting or other directions.
Jia Kai said that for students of Tsinghua Microelectronics, there is no threshold for cross-professional career selection and the Internet industry. The pay of the Internet industry is obviously higher than that of integrated circuits.
A professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology told a 21st Century Business Herald reporter that after graduating from doctoral students, they would go to a storage IC company and earn 300,000 yuan a year. However, they went to Internet technology companies and had an annual income of more than 500,000 yuan. The talent war in the Internet technology industry has raised everyone's salary expectations. The Internet industry is surging in capital, social capital is involved in financing and burning money, which is incomparable to the traditional chip industry.
Industry professionals agree that the demand for high-end talent in China's integrated circuit industry will increase substantially. Similar to Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xi'an University of Electronic Technology graduates will become more and more popular.
Xiao Wang, a 2015 student of integrated circuits majoring in Xidian University, is preparing to apply for a master's degree in related majors of Peking University. This school is also one of the first national integrated circuit personnel training centers in China. Xiao Wang told reporters that his class will probably have 50 About % of people choose to apply for graduate school. The threshold for this industry is still relatively high. The general minimum requirements for better technical posts are for masters, so he still wants to continue his studies. 21st Century Business Herald
3. Tsinghua's reconfigurable computing team proposes a new method for storage optimization of artificial intelligence computing chips;
Tsinghua News, June 7th, June 2-6, The 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) was held in Los Angeles, USA. Tsinghua University's Department of Micro-nanoelectronics doctoral student Tu Fengbin was at the meeting. A special report titled “RANA: Considering Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory Refresh Optimized Neural Network Acceleration Framework” (RANA: Towards Efficient Neural Acceleration with Refresh-Optimized Embedded DRAM) was presented. The results of this research have greatly improved artificial intelligence computing. The energy efficiency of the chip.
Dr. Tu Fengbin, Ph.D., Department of Electronic Science and Technology, made an academic report at the conference
The International Conference on Computer Architecture is the top conference in the field of computer architecture. This conference received a total of 378 submissions and 64 papers. Tu Fengbin’s research paper is the only one signed by the first completion unit in China this year. Tsinghua University's Department of Microelectronics and Electronics, Professor Yin Shouyi is the author of this article. Tu Fengbin is the author of this article. The collaborators also include Professor Wei Shaojun and Professor Liu Leibo of the Department of Microelectronics and Electronics of Tsinghua University.
With the increasing size of neural networks in artificial intelligence applications, a large number of off-chip memory accesses to computing chips can cause huge system power consumption. Therefore, storage optimization is a core issue that must be solved in the design of artificial intelligence computing chips. The research team proposes a new acceleration framework for neural networks: The Neural Network Acceleration Framework for Data Lifetime Awareness (RANA). The RANA framework uses three levels of optimization techniques: Data-lifetime-aware training methods, hybrid computing models, and support. Refresh Optimized Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory (eDRAM) memory to optimize overall system power consumption from three levels of training, scheduling, and architecture. Experimental results show that RANA framework can eliminate 99.7% of eDRAM refresh energy consumption overhead, while performance and The loss of precision is negligible. Compared to the traditional artificial intelligence computing chip using SRAM, the eDRAM-based computing chip using RANA framework can reduce 41.7% of off-chip memory access and 66.2% of system energy under the same area overhead. Consumption, make the artificial intelligence system's energy efficiency obtain the substantial increase.
Data Lifetime-Aware Neural Network Acceleration Framework (RANA)
The microelectronic and nanoelectronics reconfigurable computing team designed Thinker I, Thinker II, Thinker S based on a reconfigurable architecture in recent years. It has attracted extensive attention from academics and industry. Reconfigurable Computing Team The research results have greatly improved the energy efficiency of the chip from the perspective of storage optimization and hardware/software co-design, and opened up new directions for the evolution of the architecture of artificial intelligence computing chips. Tsinghua University
4. Shanghai Microsystems has made progress in the study of double quantum transitions in two-dimensional superconductors.
Recently, the High-end Silicon-based Materials and Applications Task Force of the State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Applied Research Group of Superconducting Materials and Superconducting Electron Microscopy have cooperated in the dual-quantum phase transition of two-dimensional disordered superconductors. Progress was made in the physical mechanism. The researchers artificially constructed a two-dimensional superconductor using single-crystal graphene grown on Ge (110) and an array of disordered tin islands, and discovered that two superconducting insulators exhibit quantum phase transition under magnetic field regulation. Experimentally, the physical mechanism of the dual-quantum critical phenomenon induced by the magnetic field of a two-dimensional disordered superconductor was proved and explained. The relevant research results were published in Nature on June 4 with the title “Double quantum criticality in superconducting tin arrays-graphene hybrid”. Newsletter (Nature Communications, 9, 2159 (2018), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04606-w).
The superconducting insulator phase transition of a two-dimensional superconductor is a very typical quantum phase transition. It describes the transition of the quantum ground state that occurs in the system at zero temperature, and is regulated by the Hamiltonian parameters of the system, such as doping, external magnetic field. It is of great physical significance to reveal some abnormal quantum phenomena in two-dimensional superconductors and strong correlation systems. For a long time, two-dimensional superconducting thin films usually exhibit single quantum phase transitions under the control of magnetic fields. Recently, the researchers discovered that magnetic field regulation Under the LaTiO3/SrTiO3 superconducting heterointerface (Nature Materials, 12, 542-548 (2013)) there is a double superconductor insulator quantum phase transition. In theory, these two quantum phase transitions are considered to be LaTiO3/SrTiO3 interface. The island-shaped superconductivity mechanism results, but there is no direct experimental evidence. National Institute of Information and Functional Materials, Sun Yinbo, Hu Tao, Di Zengfeng and other researchers use intrinsic growth on intrinsic Ge(110)/monocrystalline graphene. The array of tin islands was used to construct a visualized two-dimensional disordered superconducting system to simulate the superconducting mechanism of LaTiO3/SrTiO3. Under magnetic field control, this system reproduces the double interface of LaTiO3/SrTiO3 superconductors. Superconducting Insulator Quantum Phase Transition Phenomenon. By analyzing the magnetoresistance curves at different temperatures, it was found that the two quantum phase transitions correspond to the phase correlation between the islands in the tin island and the Si island, respectively, thereby confirming the quantum phase transition of double superconducting insulators. Physical mechanism.
This work was supported by the Shanghai Academic/Technical Leader Program, the National Science and Technology Major Project, the Frontier Science Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Fund, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Leading Technology Project (Project B) and other related research projects. Chinese Academy of Sciences Website
5. China's first military-civilian fusion hydrogen energy engineering technology research and development center was established;
China News Service, Beijing, June 6 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The reporter learned from China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd. on the 6th that China’s first military-civilian fusion hydrogen energy engineering technology research and development center has been set up in this group. The center will promote aerospace hydrogen. It is capable of combining technology and civil-military development, promoting the development of high-end technical equipment in the field of hydrogen energy utilization and engineering applications, and injecting strong aerospace power for the comprehensive development and utilization of green clean hydrogen energy in China.
The newly established hydrogen energy engineering technology research and development center is a professional platform for China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to rely on the Beijing Aerospace Power Research Institute and the Beijing Aerospace Test Technology Research Institute under its six institutes to conduct hydrogen energy utilization planning demonstration, technology research and development, business development, and foreign exchange. , Focusing on key technologies such as efficient and low-cost hydrogen storage hydrogen storage technology, hydrogen liquefaction technology, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, hydrogen energy equipment detection and safety applications, accelerating the development of hydrogen energy utilization technologies, and providing technologies for the use of hydrogen energy to form an industrial chain support.
The six institutes of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation are honored as the 'national team' of China's aerospace liquid power field. They have long been dedicated to the research and application of hydrogen energy in the field of rocket engines. After 60 years of development, they have developed Long March 3 and Long March 3rd. A series of rocket rocket third-stage hydrogen-oxygen rocket engines, as well as the Long March No. 5 core high-lift and the upper-stage expansion cycle hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine represented by a number of 'nationals', for the lunar exploration project, the Beidou satellite network and The new generation of large thrust rocket launchers and other major national science and technology projects provide stable and reliable power support.
According to reports, relying on aerospace hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine and hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and supply technologies, China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Sixth Institute has mastered high-reliability hydrogen ignition technology, hydrogen air/hydrogen and oxygen efficient combustion control technology in the field of hydrogen combustion technology. Hydrogen testing and safety management technology; In the field of fuel cell technology, with the development capability of 100 kilowatt-class oxyhydrogen/hydrogen-air and regenerative fuel cell systems, China's first vehicle high-pressure fuel cell engine loading operation was completed, through 2,000 km Full-scale simulated test evaluation; In the field of hydrogen preparation, storage and transportation, large-scale production, storage, use of liquid hydrogen, and highways, efficient and safe transportation of railways, mastering of hydrogen liquefaction plant design, design of liquid hydrogen storage and refueling stations, construction and Operation management and multi-hydrogen source comprehensive utilization technology.
At the same time, the aforementioned two institutes of China Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation also undertook more than 40 hydrogen energy research projects such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Defense Industry and Technology Bureau, and Beijing Municipality. They have compiled 33 countries related to hydrogen energy use, and they have 27 items of hydrogen pump valve, patent on storage and transportation.
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Group’s hydrogen energy engineering and technology research and development center stated that under the guidance of relevant national policies, the United Nations’s leading organizations will complete key military and civilian key technologies for the hydrogen energy use industrial chain to form fully independent intellectual property rights and establish a hydrogen energy industrial chain. Technology, standard system, and implementation of hydrogen energy utilization technology are widely used in national defense and civilian fields, and it has become the internationally recognized hydrogen energy engineering technology research and development center. (End)
6. China Electronics and Nanjing jointly build high-frequency device industry technology research institute
A few days ago, China National Electric Power Co., Ltd. and Nanjing jointly established the Nanjing High-frequency Device Industrial Technology Research Institute in the core valley settled in Qinhuai District. The establishment of the Institute of high-frequency device industry technology marks the strategic cooperation between China Electronics and Nanjing City has taken a Substantial pace.
According to the cooperation agreement, China Telecom Valley High-frequency Device Industrial Technology Research Institute will fully establish its innovative carrier based on the 55 Qinhuai headquarters of China Electronics, focusing on new terahertz technology, millimeter-wave chips, optoelectronic integrated devices, and carbon nanotubes. In the five major industries such as graphene, we have established a three-in-one innovation and incubation chain of 'new R&D institutions, national key laboratories, and technological innovation incubators' to create a national team for electronic device industry research and development, and cultivate a number of upstream and downstream industrial chains. Science and technology enterprises, promote the transformation and industrialization of a number of scientific and technological achievements, and build a 'two landings and one integration' demonstration base.
The establishment of the High-frequency Device Industrial Technology Research Institute will further give play to the advantages of China's electrical technology, achieve deep military-civilian integration, and break through the technological bottlenecks of strategic emerging industries such as 5G mobile communications, Internet of things, and new energy; will further enhance the autonomy of core components. The ability to control, realize the “change lanes and overtakings” of the third generation semiconductor industry; create a new situation in which technological innovation and industrial development are closely integrated, and build a comprehensive and open innovation park with multi-domain and multi-level services. The establishment of the Institute of Industrial Devices for Frequency Devices will serve as a starting point for 55 joint efforts with the Nanjing and Qinhuai Districts to create an emerging industrial cluster and industrial ecosystem centered on Nanjing, creating an extremely powerful electrical and electronic industry in Nanjing and China. Innovative business card featuring. China Electronics Technology Group Co., Ltd.