1. A-share circle of friends of the big fund: 1600 billion chips 'national team' layout;
Since its establishment in 2014, the Big Fund has accumulatively invested in 23 listed companies in the chip field in a variety of ways, involving A-share listed companies with a total market value of about 360 billion yuan.
Invested in Wanye Enterprise, Taiji Industry, and Guokewei cooperated to set up an investment enterprise... Recently, the national integrated circuit industry investment fund capital operation has been continuous. According to the statistics of the "Red Weekly" reporter, since its establishment in 2014, as of July 27, In the first phase of the big fund, through the fixed increase, agreement transfer, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital increase, etc., it has directly invested in 23 listed companies in the chip field, including 19 A-share listed companies, and the total market value of A-share listed companies is as high as 360 billion yuan.
In this regard, Ouyang Wu, chairman of Guizhou Huaxin Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Co., Ltd. said that every development of the industry has a period of 5 to 10 years. If there is no intervention at this time, the difficulty of entering the industry in the future is very difficult. However, in his view, it is also worthwhile for the big fund to focus its investment on the equity investment model. The big fund should dig deeper into some early-stage enterprises with technology, and use the power of capital to quickly generate these products.
From the secondary market, the share price of A-share listed companies joining the big fund luxury 'friend circle' is quite different: some have sang all the way, such as Changchuan Technology, North Huachuang, Ninestar and other companies to hold the latest market capitalization ( As of July 27th, the amount of investment has increased several times; some are 'not satisfied with the soil', such as the latest stock market value of the big fund in Huiding Technology, Tongfu Microelectronics, Jingfang Technology, Jacques and other companies. Compared with the amount of investment, there is a different degree of 'shrinking'. However, in the eyes of the industry, as a long-term strategic investor, the big fund is not concerned about whether the company is profitable in 3 to 5 years, as long as it determines that the industry is on the rise and invests in the industry. In combination, the risk of investment is relatively limited. The probability of making money in the long run is still relatively large. In addition, professional investors also remind investors that gold mining in listed companies with large funds is the most important thing to analyze whether chip companies can form technology. High barriers, whether there is a gradual replacement of foreign similar enterprises, can not blindly follow the wind investment.
1600 billion chips 'national team' layout emerges
On July 17, the Wanye Enterprise, which is mainly engaged in real estate business, issued a restructuring announcement. According to the announcement, Wanye Enterprise intends to transfer 56.431 million shares to the big fund agreement. The large fund acquired the shares of Wanye Enterprise in order to play The large fund supports the guiding role of the development of the national integrated circuit industry, and supports the acquisition of Kai Shitong by Wanye enterprises to transform into an integrated circuit equipment and materials company. According to the rough statistics of the "Red Weekly" reporter, this should be the big fund since its establishment, in the chip The field is included in the 23rd listed company.
On September 24, 2014, the large fund was established with an initial scale of 120 billion yuan. The current scale has reached 138.7 billion yuan. From the perspective of capital contribution structure, the big fund is a veritable 'national team'. From the public data, as of the end of 2017 The large fund has invested 67 projects in a total effective decision-making process. The accumulated investment commitment amount of the project is 118.8 billion yuan, and the actual investment is 81.8 billion yuan, accounting for 86% and 61% of the total fundraising in the first phase. According to the "Red Weekly" reporters, the public statistics are compiled. As of July 27, the first phase of the big fund directly invested in 23 listed companies in the chip field, including 19 A-share listed companies, 3 Hong Kong-listed companies, and 1 US-listed company. It is worth noting that 19 A-shares were listed. The company's closing market value as of the 27th was as high as 362.706 billion yuan.
The analysis shows that the investment of the major fund in the relevant listed companies covers the entire industrial chain of integrated circuit design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment, materials, etc. Data shows that as of the end of 2017, committed investment, chip manufacturing, design industry, sealing The measurement and equipment materials industry accounted for 65%, 17%, 10%, and 8% respectively. As far as individual stocks are concerned, the big fund companies are the leaders in their respective segments. For example, the North China investment in chip equipment field. Chuang, which is the largest semiconductor equipment company in China; for example, Sanan Optoelectronics, which is invested in chip manufacturing, is the world leader in LED chips.
In Ouyang Wu's view, each round of development in each industry will undergo a process from brewing to climax, and there is a window of 5 to 10 years during this period. If the capital in the window period does not enter the industry, then think again. It is very difficult to enter this industry. 'In fact, looking back, in the era of information economy, whether it is the Internet, optical communication or the Internet of Things, the foundation is integrated circuits. The development of China's integrated circuit industry is unsatisfactory. First, because of structural adjustment and economic transformation in the past. In the process, there is a bias in the understanding of integrated circuits, which is regarded as a problem of the industrial economic sector, rather than the basic support of the information economy. Second, domestic funds are risk-averse funds. At the beginning of the rise of the integrated circuit industry, they are not Emphasis on the third, the so-called high-tech enterprises invested by domestic capital in the past, the company has a truly original core technology is not relevant, especially the lack of systematic technical breakthrough and overall layout.
The big fund has a multi-pronged approach to help enterprises
The 100 billion-scale national integrated circuit industry investment fund plays the dual role of industrial support and financial investment: On the one hand, the large fund investment field covers the entire industrial chain of integrated circuits, accelerating the domestic integrated circuit research and development process; Through cross-border mergers and acquisitions, fixed increase, agreement transfer, capital increase, joint venture company and other ways to invest, optimize corporate shareholding structure, improve business efficiency and management level.
For example, in December 2014, Changdian Technology signed an agreement with the big fund, Core Power Semiconductor, to obtain a $300 million boost from the big fund through a three-tier equity structure, thereby completing the acquisition of Singapore Star Star Jinpeng by 780 million US dollars, completing the 'snake. The swallow's acquisition has entered the first echelon of global semiconductor packaging testing. According to the data, before the merger, Xingke Jinpeng is the world's fourth largest packaging and testing plant, and its volume is almost twice that of Changjiang Electronics. June 4 this year. On the day, Taiji Industrial announced that the company’s controlling shareholder industry group had transferred 130 million shares of the company to the big fund by way of public collection of the transferee, accounting for 6.17% of the company’s total share capital. After the transfer transaction was completed, the large fund It will become the third largest shareholder of Taiji Industry. The announcement shows that Taiji Industrial is engaged in the packaging and testing of semiconductor products, module assembly, and after-sales service. The above business is in line with the investment direction of the National Fund.
According to a report released by Zhiyan Consulting, China's semiconductor sales reached US$131.5 billion in 2017, which is close to one-third of the world. But behind the development boom, China's huge trade deficit in the field of integrated circuits, investment in capital and R&D There are still major gaps between the two sides and the situation that cannot be ignored.
According to statistics from the semiconductor industry, in 2017, China imported 377 billion integrated circuits, with an import value of US$260.1 billion and an export value of US$66.9 billion, but only a quarter of the import value. The integrated circuit surpassed crude oil and became the largest. Imported products. 'In many core integrated circuits such as server MPU, personal computer MPU, FPGA, DSP, etc., China is still unable to achieve chip self-sufficiency. 'The chief economist of Evergrande Ren Zeping analyzed in the latest research report. In his view External dependence is only a relatively weak external performance of China in the core chip field. Its essence is the lack of sufficient, long-term capital investment, R&D investment and accumulation in the core industrial chain of integrated circuits.
For example, in 2017, US chip giant Intel's R&D spending reached US$13 billion, and capital expenditure is expected to reach US$12 billion. Only R&D spending is close to the sum of all semiconductor companies in China. Qualcomm, Broadcom, NVIDIA and other chips are ranked globally. The three design manufacturers use about 20% of the sales revenue for R&D investment. In comparison, the representative of the domestic integrated circuit manufacturing industry, Sanan Optoelectronics, invested a total of 532 million yuan (US$78 million) in 2017, accounting for the total camp. The proportion of revenue is 6.34%, and the proportion of R&D investment capitalization is 76.22%.
In addition, a person in charge of a private equity institution in China also disclosed to the reporter of "Red Weekly": 'As far as the information we know, China's mobile phone chip field, in addition to the domestic Huawei Hisilicon chip in the high-end models have made a breakthrough, so far domestically produced Brand mobile phone chips basically do not use chips designed by domestic manufacturers. '
It is worth noting that the first phase of the big fund investment is mainly equity investment. But in Ouyang Wu's view, in the field of integrated circuits, the real need for financial support is the early stage of technological innovation. 'The big fund is going to invest in the second phase. Give special attention to intellectual property and human capital. Learn about the management of investment knowledge and human capital. Compared with foreign investment, there can be a large amount of intellectual property (IP) in the chip industry chain, in the development cost of integrated circuit products, intellectual property rights. The proportion is very large, and the importance is also very prominent. The second phase of the big fund investment must make a breakthrough in this aspect. For the second phase of the big fund project, if there is no breakthrough in the investment of intellectual property, the manufacturing and equipment will still be used. The factory is the mainstay, and then it loses the role of setting up a large fund. ' He also said, 'The key to investing in innovative industries such as high technology is to invest. If investors can't let the scientists, or entrepreneurs, have enough motivation to go. Innovation, it doesn't matter how much it costs.'
Chip companies need to be technically successful in order to break through
In Ouyang Wu's view, the big fund is going to invest in projects that have a leading role in the transformation of the entire economy and the establishment of a new economy, but this kind of investment is not concerned about whether the company is profitable within three to five years. In his view, the future of the chip In the chip design. 'According to the current investment trend, the chip industry chain factory will soon be overcapacity like the factory in the industrial economy era. Therefore, when the manufacturing capacity reaches a certain scale, there must be a design industry as a support.'
From the performance of the secondary market, the investment of big funds in A-share listed companies has risen and fallen. According to the statistics of the “Red Weekly” reporters, as of the close of July 27, the latest market value of the big fund holdings is compared with the investment quota. Changchuan Technology has the largest value-added, up to 457.5%, followed by North China Huachuang's value-added by 202%, Nasta's value-added by 162.4%, and Zhaoyi's innovation by 80.9%. Guoke's micro-value added by 14.3%. At the same time, Jingfang Technology The fund's latest stock market value is 'shrinking' 28.97%, Huiding Technology 'shrinking' 22.36%, Tongfu Micro-power 'shrinking' 11.1%. Analysis can be found that profitable enterprises are concentrated in the design and equipment field, testing and testing And materials are the focus of poor performance companies.
It should be noted that the public information shows that the total fund investment plan is 15 years, divided into investment period (2014-2019), payback period (2019-2024), extension period (2024-2029), which means At present, the current fund is still in the investment period and has not yet entered the payback period. 'In fact, as long as the industry is in a prosperous trend, the portfolio investment in the industry is relatively limited, even if the investment company A does not Make money, and company B is making money. In the end, several investment projects add up to make money. 'Ouyang Wu said.
'The big fund only provides financial support for listed companies. In the context of technology, the entry of large funds can bring huge market and directly help the company's products penetrate downstream, because the downstream enterprises of the chip rarely try new production products. However, in the listed companies in which large funds are stationed, the most important thing is to analyze whether the technology of chip companies can form high barriers, and whether there is a gradual replacement of similar foreign companies. 'The above-mentioned private equity leader said.
He analyzed that North China Huachuang's stock price surge in the past three years has a huge relationship with the large fund. The large fund has provided huge financial penalties for enterprises. According to the data, in 2015, the company's predecessor Qixing Electronics' IC manufacturing equipment sales were only 300 million yuan, gross profit margin 25%. At the end of 2015, the acquisition of Northern Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (M&A valuation is only 930 million yuan, when the income was only 266 million yuan, with technology mosquito companies) and continued mergers and acquisitions expansion, 2016 company integrated circuit Manufacturing equipment revenue jumped to 990 million yuan, with a gross margin of 37%. In 2017, the company's integrated circuit equipment revenue was 1.435 billion yuan, with a gross margin of 33%.
In addition, he also said that in terms of investment opportunities, the investment opportunities of equipment are relatively clearer. The general performance of equipment companies is more eye-catching. First, from the investment planning of China's 12-inch wafer fab, it mainly involves 8 companies. The planned investment amount is about 782.13 billion yuan. Although the commissioning time of most projects has not yet been determined, the corresponding equipment investment is huge. It is estimated that the domestic optical wafer manufacturing equipment (excluding manufacturing, packaging and testing, etc.) market from 2018 to 2020 The space growth rate is 157%, 94% and 31% respectively, and equipment demand growth is faster. Therefore, the performance of enterprises such as North Huachuang and Changchuan Technology has maintained high growth.
In contrast, in the field of packaging and chip design, the packaging and testing industry is difficult to make profit, because China's current stage of testing and testing is mainly low-end, with low gross profit and strong business competition. For example, Changdian Technology's gross profit margin in 2017 is only 11%. The gross profit margin of Tongfu Microelectronics is only 14%. The technology can't break the stock price and it is difficult to rise. Secondly, the performance of listed companies in the chip design industry is different. Because the mobile functional chips will be eliminated or left behind, the company's business will fall sharply. Technology's sharp decline in performance since the first quarter of this year is typical of it. However, the stock market and the high-power chip stocks with extremely high industry barriers are firm. 'The person in charge said.
In addition, it is worth noting that, from the announcement of the listed company, the large fund has settled in the company's 'reports', such as the first listed company Nasda, where the big fund settled, and released in the morning of July 12, 2018. The annual performance forecast announcement announcement, the company's semi-annual performance in 2018 was raised from 110 million yuan to 200 million yuan to 300 million yuan to 380 million yuan, achieving a turnaround. The reason for the performance adjustment is mainly the continuous improvement of the company's operating performance, exceeding expectations. The exchange rate fluctuates greatly and has a positive impact on profits. In addition, the performance of North Huachuang and Naiwei Technology will double in the first half of this year, and the results are expected to increase by 100%~150% and 70%~100% respectively. Red Weekly
2. Wuxi Binhu Power Integrated Circuit Design Established 2 billion industrial funds;
People's Network, Wuxi, Jiangsu, July 27 (Reporter Wang Weijian) As the cornerstone of the modern information society, integrated circuits are widely used in various industries, and Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province is also focusing on the development of integrated circuit industry. On July 27, Wuxi Binhu District held integration. Signed a major project in the circuit design industry and 2018 Wuxi Taihu Chuang's core summit, Wuxi signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Information Security Evaluation Center, and signed 15 projects including Shenwei AI, Zhongkexin Chuangxin Chip and Shenzhen Tianji Communication. Involved in chip design applications and related industries, the total investment is nearly 2 billion yuan.
Gao Yaguang, deputy mayor of Wuxi City, introduced Wuxi's integrated circuit industry as a southern microelectronics base and undertook the '908' project. It has trained a number of microelectronics management, technology and market application teams for China, and the scale is in Jiangsu Province and similar cities in China. Forefront. After more than 20 years of development, Wuxi IC has formed a complete industrial chain from design, manufacturing, packaging testing and other equipment. Among them, Huahong, Hynix Second Factory have settled in Wuxi.
It is understood that only Wuxi Binhu District has gathered more than 40 integrated circuit design related enterprises, including Zhongkexin, Zhuosheng Microelectronics, Huada Guoqi and other enterprises with certain scale. As of the end of May 2018, Bin The industrial output value of 21 integrated circuit enterprises in the Lake District was 1.83 billion yuan, up 30.6% year-on-year. Among them, the high-performance integrated circuit design industry operating income was 1.73 billion yuan, up 37.9% year-on-year. Orange Core Microelectronics, Xinjie Energy and Key enterprises such as Xukang Microelectronics have developed rapidly, with year-on-year growth exceeding 50%.
To further complement the IC industry chain,
Binhu District of Wuxi City has also set up an integrated circuit design center in the Qinyuan Development Zone, which is the integrated circuit design enterprise gathering area in the Qinyuan Development Zone, to build an integrated circuit design base. At the same time, the development plan for the integrated circuit design industry in Binhu District was formulated. 2018-2025) 》, set up a 2 billion yuan IC design industry development fund. 'We will cover the IC design enterprise in a full range of '招招, 投投,助'. ' Wuxi Binhu District Economic and Trade Bureau Director Zheng Tianyu said that Binhu always regards the IC design industry as a key optimization industry to promote the next-generation information technology industry. The 'Professional Government' booster will continue to exert its strength in the industry and promote the development of the IC design industry. Innovation, optimization and upgrading and integration development.
Xu Feng, secretary of the Wuhu Binhu District Party Committee, said, 'In the future, Binhu District will rely on the key platforms such as the Liyuan Development Zone and the National IC Design Center, and strive to build a 'big service, big investment' pattern, through major project accelerators, A number of innovative measures, such as the reform of science and technology and talent innovation system, and the construction of a service system from enterprise landing to project construction, commissioning and operation, supporting and expanding the whole life cycle, striving to create an ecological environment more suitable for industrial development, and further guiding all parties to capital and innovation. The elements are gathered in the lakeside. ' People's Network
3. The Pentagon pays great attention to innovation and wants to fight against China in the field of microelectronics;
On the 24th of July, the US "Defense" monthly website published a report by Yasmin Tajd entitled "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected the team for the $1.5 billion electronic plan."
An official announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a number of industry and academic teams to carry out the work of six projects under its profitable e-Rejuvenation Program. The program will receive more than $1.5 billion in five years.
The program, announced in 2017, is designed to drive innovation in the electronics industry. Pentagon officials say electronic technology supports some of the most important areas of expertise in the Department of Defense, including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, space and biotechnology.
Bill Chapel, director of the Microsystems Technology Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, said the effort coincided with soaring business costs in the industry, as foreign countries were investing more.
▲ US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Three days before the agency and its industry and academia partners held an important meeting called the 'Electronic Renaissance Plan Summit' in San Francisco, Chapel told reporters in a conference call: 'We are now in this very noteworthy time Point, we will focus more on the basic technology of electronics and semiconductors.'
Chapel said that the meeting was held from July 22nd to 24th, with more than 950 participants. Participants will discuss the future of electronic technology, especially Moore's Law. This theory calls the ability of integrated circuits every 18 to 24 It will double in a month.
He said: 'The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long provided funding for research in this area. We have greatly improved our capabilities.'
The e-Revitalization program consists of six projects under three pillars: structure, design, and materials and integration.
During the conference, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that it has selected a number of companies and universities to participate in the e-renaissance program.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's investment in microelectronics is at a time when competition between the US and China has become more intense. In the 2018 defense strategy, the Pentagon called Beijing one of its future two competitors. China has made an effort to increase its investment in microelectronics technology and allocate $150 billion to it.
▲ chip processing
China’s investment is particularly disturbing because the Pentagon fears that China may hide malicious applications or malicious code in the US military system using Chinese chips.
Chapel pointed out that a large part of China's funds are being invested in manufacturing facilities rather than trying to make technological advances.
He said: 'But it does highlight the need to ensure that we have new inventions across the country and other allies, and we will invent new methods because older methods are being replicated in their entirety. Now more important than ever. The point is that we have new inventions that are being done to ensure that semiconductor space really becomes a valuable thing.'
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4. Megacore: Domestic X86 performance is close to six generations of i3 processor Next generation is on the core i5
In addition to the AMD-authorized Haiguang Group developing X86 processors, there is another camp in China that develops X86 processors, which is Shanghai Zhaoxin. They are working with VIA VIA.
Recently, the deputy general manager of Shanghai Zhaoxin said in the interview that the overall performance of the Megachip processor has been able to benchmark the international mainstream standards. The latest processor has been able to benchmark Intel's sixth-generation Core i3 processor, running mainstream games without stress. Next-generation Megacore X86 processor performance is on par with the Intel Core i5 processor.
The Science and Technology Daily reported that Dr. Luo Yong, deputy general manager of Shanghai Zhaoxin Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd., said in an interview that the overall performance of the SMIC processor has been able to benchmark the international mainstream standards, with the ZX-C series CPU and KX-5000. For example, it is possible to benchmark Intel's sixth-generation i3 processor, the host frequency can reach 2GHz, for daily office applications, 4K decoding, and even running Call of Duty, Tomb Raider and other mainstream 3D games have no pressure. The statement against the Intel Core i3 processor is not the first time. In 2017, the Science and Technology Daily also reported the progress of the domestic nuclear high-base project for more than ten years, including domestic CPUs such as Feiteng, Godson, Shenwei and Zhaoxin. The single-core performance has increased from 3% of Intel's i3 CPU to 36.4%, 33.3%, 25.8% and 51.5% from the beginning of the '12th Five-Year Plan'.
The performance of this is close to the core i3. The performance of the core is still the X86 processor of the company. However, the latest processor of the company is the ZX-C+ series, 4 cores and 4 threads, 28nm process, frequency up to 2.0GHz, TDP power consumption 18W. However, in the current statement, the theory of the mega core has become the performance of the ZX-C series and the KX-5000 series comparable to the Intel six-generation Core i3, which is the Skylake architecture Core i3 of the 14nm process.
The ZX-C series' previous statement is half the performance of the i3 processor five or six years ago. The performance has become the performance of the six-generation i3.... This is unlikely, but the KX-5000 series has this possibility, because KX -5000 is the latest X86 architecture released by Megacore. According to the official information, the KX-5000 series uses a new kernel, up to 8 cores, IPC performance increased by 25%, single-chip performance increased by 140%, and memory tape expansion increased by 120%. .
The result of this test comes from the endorsement of "Microcomputer" magazine. 'From these test results, the performance of the XX core KX-5000 series 8-core processor has basically reached the sixth generation Core processor Core i3-6100. Level. The Core i3-6100 processor scored 7588 thousand steps per second in the FrizChess chess power test, CINEBENCH R11.5 CPU rendered score 4.35pts, and the 7-zip composite score was around 11236. From the North-South Bridge architecture The FSB bus's ZX-C processor to performance catches up with the sixth-generation Core i3 processor. This is indeed a big improvement for the mega-core x86 processor. ' —— Microcomputer
In this test, Fritz chess test 7911 points, this is mainly multi-core implementation, 6 generation i3 or dual-core four-thread, and Cinbench R11.5 test CPU score 4.01pts, this is multi-threaded score (single thread more at 1.0pts Left and right), 4.0pts scores are indeed similar to the Core i3-6000 series processors. Of course, the pursuit of Megacore is not limited to this, 8 cores to win 2 cores and 4 thread processors is not enough, Rayong revealed that the next generation of Megacore The KX-6000 series processor has been successfully streamed. It is based on the more advanced 16nm process, clocked at up to 3.0GHz, compatible with x86 instruction set and extended instruction set such as SSE4.2 and AVX2. Open KX-6000 series processor list The chip integrates 4/8 CPU cores, memory controller, PCIe controller, SATA controller and USB controller, has 4MB/8MB cache, supports DDR4-3200 speed memory, is compatible with PCIe 3.0 and supports SATA Gen3 and USB 3.1. Such standards, performance and Intel i5 processor in line with the realization of the international advanced level of accelerated catch-up.