With the emergence of a new wave of integrated circuit development, except for the Beijing-Shanghai and other places that continue to lead, the central and western regions and provinces are second-tier cities, but also because of Xi’an, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Changsha, Hefei and other integrated circuit key cities. , It has become the industrial agglomeration with the most active industrial development. Among them, Hubei has attracted much attention from the industry due to its national storage base.
On April 26 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Fenghuo Communications and Wuhan Xinxin, which are located in the Donghu High-tech Zone in Wuhan, Hubei Province. This shows that the country attaches great importance to the development of the Hubei chip industry.
Policy Support Industry Development
Hubei Province was one of the provinces that earlier identified the development direction of integrated circuits in China. In June 2000, the National Institute of China issued the “Policy to Encourage the Development of the Software Industry and the Integrated Circuit Industry”, Hubei Province followed the pace of national strategic development, and also in 2000. It is determined to develop ICs with its capital, Wuhan, as the center. In the following decades, several related policies were successively introduced to promote the development of the IC industry in the province.
In 2004, Wuhan City, Hubei Province promulgated the “Opinions of the People's Government of Wuhan Municipality on Further Encouraging the Development of Software Industry and Integrated Circuit Industry”, and clearly stated that it will encourage applications through interest subsidies, expand domestic demand, face demand, attract talents, and use tax incentives, etc. Policies support the development of the local integrated circuit industry.
With the promotion of national, provincial and municipal policies, Hubei Province, Wuhan City and Donghu Hi-tech Zone jointly invested in Wuhan Xinxin in 2006, forming a development direction that focuses on memory and drives the industrial chain to gather, and continues to support Wuhan Xinxin.
In 2014, the People's Government of Hubei Province promoted the establishment of the Leading Group for the Development of the Integrated Circuit Industry in the Province. Leaders of the provincial government will serve as team leaders. All relevant departments and units will be members. Organize and formulate industrial development plans, coordinate major issues in industrial development, and implement various Related policies, etc.
On September 28, 2014, the People's Government of Hubei Province issued the Action Plan for the Development of the Integrated Circuit Industry in Hubei Province, which once again raised the height of the development of integrated circuit development. By 2020, the scale of the integrated circuit industry in the province will exceed 100 billion yuan.
In April 2016, the first meeting of Hubei Integrated Circuit Industry Promotion Conference and the Provincial Integrated Circuit Leading Group was held. Xu Kezhen, the vice governor of Hubei Province at that time, emphasized that the provincial government attached great importance to the integrated circuit industry and required the introduction of Hubei's IC industry support policy; In August of the same year, the second meeting of the Leading Group for the Development of Integrated Circuit Industry in Hubei Province was held in Wuhan. The next step was to promote the development of integrated circuit industry and the construction of a national memory base.
After two group meetings, in September 2016, the Hubei Provincial People's Government formally issued the “13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Hubei Province's Industry”, which clearly stated that it relied on an innovation platform such as Wuhan Xinxin National IC Design and Technology Center. Support the development of enterprises that can provide complete application solutions, nurture leading companies in the IC design industry.
In January 2017, the Hubei Economic and Information Technology Commission compiled the "Hubei Province's Next-Generation Information Technology Industry Development Action Plan (2016-2020)", which listed integrated circuits as one of the three core pillar industries for the development of a new generation of information technology.
So far, Hubei Province has continued to issue relevant policies for the development of the integrated circuit industry. In May 2018, the relevant person in charge of Donghu High-tech Zone in Wuhan, Hubei Province stated that Donghu High-tech Zone will issue the “East Lake New Technology Development Zone in Wuhan to encourage the development of integrated circuit industry”. A number of policies, namely the 'Optical Valley IC Industry Ten', promote IC development in all directions.
Fund promotes industrial upgrading
The development of integrated circuits cannot be separated from the support of the central government. In addition to the policy, funds are also crucial. In recent years, many local funds have been established to promote industrial development. Hubei Province is one of them.
In August 2015, the Hubei Integrated Circuit Industrial Investment Fund was incorporated in Wuhan Donghu National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. The fund was initiated and established by Wuhan Economic Development and Investment (Group) Co., Ltd., and Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Investment Corporation and other companies participated, 3. Beyond the guidance of three levels of government financial funds, the fund also attracted social funds to participate.
Hubei IC Industrial Investment Fund is not less than RMB 30 billion. It focuses on investment in integrated circuit chip manufacturing. It also takes into consideration upstream and downstream industrial chains such as design and packaging and testing. It will establish sub-funds and special financial service platforms to link up with domestic and overseas capital markets. , To realize the organic integration of the national strategy and market mechanism, promote Optic Valley to create a 100 billion integrated circuit industry, and promote the leap-forward development of the IC industry in Hubei Province.
In addition to the Hubei Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, the Hubei Provincial Government also supported the IC industry through other funds. In 2015, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government decided to allocate 40 billion yuan from the provincial finance as a government guidance fund to financial institutions, enterprises and the society. The capital raised 160 billion yuan to jointly establish a 200 billion yuan industrial fund of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
In April 2016, the Yangtze River Economic Zone Industrial Fund and the TCL Venture Capital Fund will jointly launch the Changjiang Hezhi Industrial Investment Fund with a total scale of more than RMB 10 billion, focusing on semiconductors, integrated circuits and other optoelectronic information industries, taking into account other strategic emerging industries; In May 2016, the Industrial Fund of the Yangtze River Economic Zone signed an agreement with an industry investment agency to set up five new funds to focus on investment in integrated circuits, new displays, and high-end equipment manufacturing.
It is worth mentioning that, in May of this year, the Bank of China’s Hubei Province, the Yangtze River Storage Technology Co., Ltd. provided 3 billion yuan credit support to fully protect the company's national memory base project construction.
Science and education lay a foundation for talent
Talent is an important factor in the development of the integrated circuit industry. Hubei Province, as one of the largest provinces of science and education in China, concentrates research institutes such as Wuhan Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Wuhan 709 Research Institute, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei University, Wuhan University, and Wuhan University of Technology. University.
Many industrial research institutes and universities have begun to consciously cultivate integrated circuit talents in the early stage of industrial development. Local companies and research institutes and universities have also formed a good cooperative relationship among talents. This has laid the foundation for the training and transportation of IC personnel in Hubei Province. Good foundation.
In October 2003, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology approved Huazhong University of Science and Technology as one of the first national integrated circuit talents cultivation bases. It has a relatively solid microelectronics discipline and a sound personnel training system.
In September 2015, Wuhan International School of Microelectronics, jointly established by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan Donghu National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, was officially unveiled. The college will develop high-end engineering talents that are urgently needed in the microelectronics and integrated circuit industries.
A few days ago, Xu Xiangshui, a professor of the vice president of the Microelectronics Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said that Huazhong University of Science and Technology has invested a lot of effort in the training of integrated circuit talents. Last year alone, it increased the number of places for non-full-time master's students by 120. This year's plan To expand the doctoral enrollment program by 50%, he believes that the enrollment of master's and doctoral candidates must continue to increase because the demand is too great.
In addition to Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 2008, Wuhan University launched the “Excellent Core Fire Project” training project. It aims to nurture its own 'Jobs' of Wuhan. Through cooperation with companies, it will customize the exclusive microelectronics industry for enterprises. Talent.
In addition to cultivating local industrial talents, Hubei Province also focuses on the introduction of talent. In July 2017, Donghu Hi-tech Zone in Wuhan signed a contract with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Talent Exchange Center to jointly introduce and cultivate talents in the IC industry to meet the growing number of integrated circuits in Optics Valley. Talent Demand.
Reported that Wuhan Optics Valley has gathered 42 universities, 56 national and provincial-level scientific research institutes, has 66 academicians of the two academies, more than 200,000 various types of professional and technical personnel.
In spite of this, Hubei's current IC talents are still relatively inadequate. In September 2017, the Hubei Provincial Human Resources Agency 2016-2017 Hubei Province's eight key industries are in urgent need of a shortage of high-level talents, and the software and integrated circuit industries are among them.
However, the shortage of integrated circuit talent is a national phenomenon, which has become one of the key factors restricting the development of China's integrated circuit industry.
Hubei Province has one of the nation’s nine integrated circuit talents cultivation bases. The National Model Microelectronics Institute approved by the six ministries and commissions of the State to meet the needs of local companies also shoulders the responsibility of conveying IC talents across the country. And far away.
Industry chain has basically formed
After more than ten years of development, the integrated circuit industry chain in Hubei Province has taken shape. The data shows that as of the end of July 2016, Hubei Province had more than 60 integrated circuit companies such as chip design and chip manufacturing, and more than 5,000 integrated circuit professional employees. people.
In terms of geographical distribution, integrated circuits in Hubei Province are mainly concentrated in Wuhan, the provincial capital. Wuhan is one of the important electronic information industry bases in China, and Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are listed as the four major integrated circuit base cities in the country, including Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone in 2001. It was approved by the former State Development Planning Commission and Ministry of Science and Technology as the national optoelectronics industrial base, namely “Wuhan China Optics Valley”. Since the investment and construction of Wuhan Xinxin Project in 2006, it has been dedicated to the development of the integrated circuit industry and has now brought together the Yangtze River. Storage, Wuhan Fast Motion, High German infrared and other famous enterprises.
On the industrial cluster, Hubei province focused on promoting Wuhan Optical Valley Industrial Park and Yichang Magnetic Electronics Industrial Park. In mid-May of this year, at the 2018 China Optics Valley Investment and Cooperation Conference, Wuhan Donghu High-tech Zone Administrative Committee was responsible for According to people, Optics Valley is planning to build an integrated circuit industrial park covering an area of 10,000 mu in Wuhan Science and Technology City.
In addition to the Phase III construction project for storage of the Yangtze River, the industrial park will also build a national advanced storage industry innovation center, a semiconductor equipment base, a packaging and testing base, an integrated circuit design industrial park, a Hubei integrated circuit industry research institute, and an Wuhan ICC center. Electronic College, Integrated Circuit Application Industrialization Base, Memory Chip Controller and Module Base and a series of heavy supporting projects.
In terms of the industrial chain, Hubei Province takes memory manufacturing as the core, and develops the IC industry chain of design, packaging and testing, materials, and equipment, among which the national memory base project undertaken by the Yangtze River Storage is a priority for the development of IC industry in Hubei Province. Others include other companies such as FiberHome Communications, Silicon Microelectronics, MediaTek, and Synopsys. In addition to Yangtze River storage, there are other companies in the manufacturing industry, including Astronix Technologies, Taiwan Foundation, and other companies. In the area of packaging and testing, there is Fangjing Electronics. Maoji Semiconductor and other companies, including Jingfeng Electronics, Xingfu Electronics, Dinglong, etc. in the materials field, and Dahua Laser Lights in the equipment field. (See the chart below)
On the whole, under the support of the policy of the central government, various funds and capital, Hubei Province has basically formed Wuhan as the center, storage as the key, Yangtze River storage as the leader, covering design, manufacturing, and packaging and testing. , Materials, equipment and other relatively complete integrated circuit industry chain, and has a number of powerful specialty companies such as the Yangtze River Storage, Ascension Technology, Taiwan-based shares, become a domestic industry can not be ignored integrated circuit area.
However, at present, the integrated circuit industrial chain in Hubei is at a preliminary stage. The strength of the industrial chain is relatively weak. In some areas, there are problems such as a small enterprise size and lack of high-end talents. The industrial chain needs to be further improved, and it is necessary to continuously improve its competitiveness. And there is a well-established integrated circuit industry cluster area. Hubei Province still has a long way to go.
Yangtze River Storage
The national storage base project undertaken by Wuhan Xinxin and Changjiang River Storage is the key development area of the integrated circuit industry in Hubei Province, and it plays a decisive role in the province and even the national industry.
In 2006, Wuhan City, Hubei Province and Donghu High-tech Zone jointly decided to establish Wuhan Xinxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. to invest 10.7 billion yuan to build the first 12-inch integrated circuit production line in the central region. In the next 10 years, Hubei Province The district government has invested more than 10 billion yuan in total to use Wuhan Xinxin to develop the IC industry.
In 2016, the national storage base project settled in Wuhan Optics Valley, followed by the Ziguang Group, the State Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, the Hubei Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, and the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Investment Group co-financed and established Changjiang Storage Technology Co., Ltd. on the basis of Wuhan Xinxin. The company is responsible for the R&D, construction and operation of a national memory base with a total investment of 160 billion yuan. According to the plan, the national memory base project is expected to have a production capacity of 300,000 wafers per month by 2020, and a monthly capacity of 1 million wafers by 2030.
The storage of the Yangtze River from Wuhan Xinxin in recent years has been highly valued by the state. In 2016, Premier Li Keqiang, then Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang successively visited Wuhan Xinxin to inspect and investigate; in May 2017, he served as vice premier of the State Council, and the country integrated Ma Kai, leader of the circuit industry development leading group, went to the site of the Yangtze River Storage National Memory Base project. In April this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Wuhan Xinxin...
The Yangtze River Storage National Storage Base project has made great progress. In September 2017, the No. 1 chip factory of the National Memory Base was capped in advance; in October 2017, the first domestically-developed 32-layer three-dimensional flash memory chip developed by Yangtze River Storage was introduced; this year On April 5th, the Yangtze River's first precision instruments arrived in Wuhan. On April 11, the chip production machine officially entered the installation. On May 19, the Yangtze River's first lithography machine arrived at the Wuhan Airport. It is expected that by the end of this year, the base will Will realize domestic small-scale production of 3D flash memory.
FiberHome Communications
Fiberhome Communications was established in 1999, is a professional optical communications equipment supplier, its products have covered all kinds of core chips from optical communication system equipment to optical module devices.
Taiwan-based shares
Taiwan Keji Co., Ltd. was established in 2004. The semiconductor business is R&D, manufacturing, sales and service of high-power semiconductor devices and power components. The main products are power thyristors, rectifiers, power semiconductor modules, etc. It is the largest power semiconductor in China. One of the device manufacturers.
Dinglong shares
Dinglong Co., Ltd. uses laser printing and general-purpose printing consumables industry, IC chip and process technology materials industry as its core business, and imports and substitutes new chemical material applications as the development direction. The main products in the integrated circuit field are laser printing and printing general-use consumables chips and Chemical mechanical CMP polishing pad products.
Xingfu Electronics
Xingfu Electronics is a subsidiary of the listed company Xingfa Group, focusing on the research and development, production and sales of electronic chemicals. The products include integrated circuits, liquid crystal panels and solar photovoltaic manufacturing. The main products are electronic grade phosphoric acid and electronic grade sulfuric acid. , Aluminum etching solution, ITO etching solution, developer, cleaning agent, polysilicon and other high-purity electronic chemicals.
Xinsi Technology
In 2012, Synopsys established a global R&D center in Wuhan. In December 2016, Synopsys launched the Synopsys Wuhan Industrial Park construction project in the East Lake New Technology Development Zone in Wuhan. This is the first R&D industrial park to be invested and constructed in the world for the first time. It is currently under construction.
MediaTek
In 2010, MediaTek built the first phase of R&D center in Wuhan, mainly providing integrated circuit design solutions for tablet PCs, Blu-ray players, digital TVs, etc.; May 2018, MediaTek Wuhan R&D Center Phase II project settled in Optics Valley and will invest 350 million yuan , In addition to the new car electronics, smart home integrated circuit design layout.