This year's China IC design industry is more optimistic

China's status as a major manufacturing country is no doubt, but the prosperity of the manufacturing industry is only the first step in the development of the IC industry. The low-value-added low-end manufacturing industry is obviously not a long-term solution. To realize the sound development of the industry, we must attach importance to “creating in China” and IC design is undoubtedly the core part of it. The IC industry is a national strategic industry and its importance is self-evident. IC design and chip manufacturing complement each other. Their integration and linking are important driving forces for the entire industry, and they are also the core elements of building a strategic emerging industry value chain.

The status of China's local chip manufacturing industry The chip manufacturing industry belongs to high-end manufacturing. Technology content, cost investment, and strategic importance are not to be underestimated. After years of hard work, China's local chip manufacturing industry has made considerable progress. Leading foundries have their own unique craftsmanship.

"Shanghai Advanced Semiconductor was founded in 1988, has a long history of foundry, and has a complete range of technological product lines. At the same time, ASMC is also the first domestic semiconductor manufacturing company engaged in the manufacture of automotive electronic chips. It began production for automotive safety in 1995. The electronic chip of the airbag has accumulated rich experience in the process management of automotive electronic chip manufacturing.” Akai Chief Technical Officer Shao Kai said, “Our process platform includes analog devices, power devices and sensors. In MEMS, ASMC’s MEMS The process includes front and back roads, the former road purification workshop is 4,300 square meters, and the latter road purification workshop is 300 square meters.The MEMS front-end process capability includes double-side photolithography, DRIE, wet process (TMAH), HT furnace tubes and ICs. Foundry's standard process capability; back-end process capabilities include double-sided lithography, DRIE, wet process, metal sputtering, Bonding, Grinder, etc. MEMs are available in a wide variety of products."

Power semiconductor devices can greatly increase the energy conversion efficiency while making it possible to use new energy sources (such as hydropower, wind power, battery chemical energy, etc.). The realization of the goal of energy-saving emission reduction in China depends on the development of power semiconductors.

"Power semiconductors are nuclear cores for energy conservation and emission reduction. China's power management IC market is expected to reach US$4.7 billion in 2012. Energy-saving emission reductions will create a huge power semiconductor market." Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co., Ltd. Sales and Marketing Vice President Gao Feng said, “The recently developed 0.18um BCD and 0.13um CDMOS (with high-reliability memory) of Hua Hong NEC have provided customers with new choices and are suitable for digital power supply, LED driving, battery protection and power management applications. Hua Hong NEC will provide customers with a wide range of advanced and cost-effective solutions ranging from 1um to 0.13um with a characteristic line width from 1um to 0.13um, a stable process capability and a wealth of options to closely cooperate with customers. , reduce product development cycle and reduce development costs."

Gao Feng also said that as the world's first 8-inch foundry to provide MOSFET business, Hua Hong NEC has provided strong support for customers with stable high qualification rate, abundant production capacity and reliable performance, and has grown up with customers as the industry's Mainstream MOSFET supplier; Hua Hong NEC has accumulated rich experience in volume production for more than 8 years and 2 million 8-inch wafers (more than 20 billion chips). Through years of mass production, we have also cultivated an efficient and reliable team, accumulated many know-how, and greatly reduced the development time of new products for customers. In the future, Hua Hong NEC will continue to provide high-power and high-current power discrete devices. Going forward, we provide a series of super junction products, high-voltage and ultra-high voltage IGBT product platforms, and contribute to the localization of high-end discrete devices.