Integrated advantages of integrated circuits and automotive industry
Recently, the 2018 Qingchengshan IC Eco-Forum hosted by China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch and Xinyuan Control Investment Co., Ltd. was held in Qingcheng Mountain, Chengdu. The theme of this forum is to build a smart car electronics industry chain, on-site, Chengdu Vice-City In a keynote speech, Chang Fanyi said that the integration of integrated circuits and the automotive industry is highly integrated, and it is a great impetus for smart cars. This is our ecological chain. Fan Yi, Vice Mayor of Chengdu
Fan Yi said that Chengdu has always regarded integrated circuits as the focus of industrial development and is actively striving to become the country's 'Made in China 2025' demonstration city. From the perspective of industrial development, Chengdu's industrial development focus is 'one core, one screen and one machine. ', 'one core' refers to the chip, 'one screen' is a new type of display, 'one machine' refers to the aircraft. These three industries Chengdu has a very good foundation, and the chip development in the first place.
Chengdu has a layout from chip design to wafer fabrication, package testing, and application scenarios, forming a complete industry chain ecosystem. Fan Yi said that Chengdu has introduced Intel, Grofund, Texas Instruments, Spreadtrum, Huawei. , Haiguang and other large-scale integrated circuit design and manufacturing and packaging testing advanced enterprises.
In terms of wafer manufacturing, Gexin has a firm investment confidence in Chengdu and is very firm in its FD-SOI technology route. It also said that it will continue to accelerate the construction and production of FD-SOI production lines. Currently, the manufacturers in Gaoxin West District have already been in the core. Completely built, it is the most advanced production plant in the world.
Carlos Mazure, Chairman and Executive Director of the FD-SOI Industry Alliance, presented the application of SOI in automotive electronics. For example, NXP uses the 28nm FD-SOI mass-produced i.MX8 series of application processors for in-vehicle entertainment, ST's 77GHz radar. Intel Mobileye's EyeQ4 Level 3 ADAS chip is used in ADAS systems, as well as in-vehicle networks, automotive batteries, etc. Manufacturers have released mass production chips based on FD-SOI technology.
Carlos Mazure, Chairman and Executive Director of FD-SOI Industry Alliance
In addition, smart cars require efficient, low-latency, low-power artificial intelligence calculations. Automated driving at the L3 level requires a new and powerful chip architecture. Carlos Mazure said that Audi is currently developing a new car based on FD-SOI technology. Processor architecture.
In the live speech, Mark Granger, vice president of business development for grid-based automotive electronic IoT network, also demonstrated the application of grid technology in ADAS and autonomous driving, such as 22FDX-ADAS processor, 14 LPP/7LP autopilot processor. 28-22FDX Camera, SiGe-CMOS-LIDAR, 40nm-22FDX short-range laser radar, etc. This time, the core also promoted the AutoPro program for automotive electronics.
This is the industrial chain of integrated circuit design and manufacturing. In the application side of automotive electronics, Chengdu also has unique advantages.
Chengdu has gathered a large number of world and domestic well-known automobile manufacturers, and the production of complete vehicles has exceeded 1.5 million. Automobile manufacturers include FAW, Geely, Volvo, Dongfeng Shenlong, etc. Chengdu develops automotive electronics, especially smart cars, and smart cars have A good industrial base, in addition, the display industry can also be better integrated with the development of automobiles. The electronic information industry functional area of Chengdu planning
Li Wei, deputy director of the Chengdu High-tech Zone Management Committee, said in a speech that Chengdu has planned to build 66 industrial functional zones, and the electronic information industry functional zone is one of them. However, the electronic information industry is the primary industry of Chengdu, and the goal is to Occupy the globally competitive electronic information industry highland. Chengdu's electronic information industry functional area planning area is 121.4 square kilometers, including 43 square kilometers of high-tech West District, and Qidu District is 78.4 square kilometers.
In 2017, the total scale of Chengdu's electronic information industry is 580 billion yuan, of which the entire scale of the functional area is 320 billion yuan, accounting for 55% of Chengdu. The main scale is concentrated in integrated circuits, new displays, intelligent terminals, and network communication. In the new economy, many leading enterprises and high-growth enterprises have gathered, and the output value is in the forefront in the central and western regions. It is expected to reach a scale of 1.7 trillion yuan by 2035.
Within the development scope of the integrated circuit with a planned area of 7.4 square kilometers, the company will focus on the development of enterprises including Gexin and Intel, and introduce enterprises in key areas. In the new display area, the planned area is 4.8 square kilometers, and the plan is 270 billion yuan. The focus is on the BOE display ecosystem; the smart terminal field plan will reach 450 billion by 2035, and the planned land area will be 10 square kilometers, mainly relying on the existing Foxconn project, focusing on wearable, in-vehicle electronics, smart TV and other products; network communication field 2035 The planned target for the year is 330 billion, and the planned land area is 4.8 square kilometers. It is mainly to build the national 5G technology industrial base and the Internet regional exchange center with Huawei 5G and Electronic Science and Technology University. The last aspect is the new economic field. In the new economic field, we plan to The target value of output in 2035 is 330 billion. The planned area is 3.5 square kilometers, mainly relying on the new economic industrial system with characteristics of Jingrong Town, focusing on building a new highland of artificial intelligence industry. It will also rely on the innovation center of Jingrong Town. Headquarters innovation space, relying on Electronic Science and Technology and four ring universities for innovation and development
Where are the talents coming? FD-SOI talent training starts from colleges and universities
At the site of the Qingchengshan IC Summit, a grand award ceremony was held for the award-winning team of the “Qinyuan” Cup Circuit Design Competition. Dr. Weiwei Wei, Chairman of VeriSilicon Holdings, said that the design competition was originally started by the University of Electronic Science and Technology and expanded this year. Electronic Science and Technology University, Sichuan University, Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and other western universities.
Dr. Weiwei Wei, Chairman of VeriSilicon Holdings, has been conducting the design competition for four times. It is an important activity in FD-SOI talent training. Professor Yu Qi, Associate Dean of the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, said in Gexin Before entering Chengdu, Dr. Weiyuan and Dr. Dai began to actively promote this competition. Since the national colleges and universities have not yet opened FD-SOI courses, Weiyuan specially sent engineers to do training and interact with the students. In the past few years, the students from the competition The original dozens of people have hundreds of people to the present, and then hope to expand from the western region to the national scope. This competition has made a good reserve for the FD-SOI design talents.
Chengdu has more than 3,000 IC-related talents graduated each year. Universities include Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu University of Technology, etc. The Chengdu government also proposed to focus on Chengdian, Huawei, Rongfu, Haigui, etc. The introduction of talents in the four key clusters, mainly in conjunction with the University of Electronic Science and Technology, Sichuan University, etc. to develop customized talent training, training a group of high-end research and development and practical technical talents. Forming a talent base to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in various forms such as equity, options, etc. There are 19 colleges and universities in Chengdu's electronic information industry functional zone, with 250,000 college students, 33% of Chengdu, 249 scientific research institutions, and 29 national research institutions. These talent resources are provided for the development of integrated circuits in Chengdu. Important protection. Coupled with the living environment of Chengdu, it also attracts talents to take root here.
From the integrated circuit to the automotive industry to the FD-SOI talents, Chengdu's layout in the smart car industry chain is very clear. Once the car intelligence enters the outbreak period, Chengdu's automotive industry development potential will be unlimited.