Semiconductor organizations in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau have formally joined hands to form an alliance. In the future, they will build up a synergistic semiconductor industry ecosphere with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
On October 11, the inauguration ceremony of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan Semiconductor Industry Alliance was held in Guangzhou Development Zone. The alliance members will build a series of service support platforms including chip testing, EDA, IP, talent training and industry incubation, build the semiconductor industry ecology of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan District, and upgrade the semiconductor industry of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan District. The overall competitiveness of the industry.
Semiconductor industry is the core and foundation of real economy, especially modern industry. It also provides important strategic support for the development of new generation of information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, green low-carbon, digital economy, new materials and other strategic emerging industries. At present, the third generation semiconductor materials and related device chips represented by GaN and SiC have become the competitive strategy of the global high-tech field and the focus of the international technology blockade.
Zou Sheng, former deputy party secretary and inspector of Guangdong Economic and Information Commission, said that Guangdong's electronics and information industry has occupied one third of the country. Last year, Guangdong's semiconductor imports amounted to $80 billion, indicating a huge market demand. However, Guangdong has not formed a manufacturing core and semiconductor industry ecological chain, which is the short board to be filled.
Zhao Qiuqi, deputy director of the National Integrated Circuit Design Shenzhen Industrialization Base, has high hopes for the alliance. He said that the integrated circuit design in Shenzhen is very strong, but should a city go hand in hand to build the entire industrial chain? The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is an important part of integrated circuits in China, and the industrial chains can be fully matched by giving full play to their respective advantages.
In fact, Guang Shen Zhu Hong Kong and Macau has initially formed their respective advantages in semiconductor industry. Guangzhou has advantages in application and manufacturing, Shenzhen and Zhuhai are strong in products and design, Macao is the world leader in scientific research, and Hong Kong has international experience in intellectual property protection.
At present, Guangzhou and its surrounding areas have become the largest distribution and consumption of integrated circuits in China, with Xingsen Express, Agile, Fenghua Core Power, Xinxing Microelectronics, Fengjiang Microelectronics and a number of packaging and testing enterprises, the first domestic 12-inch chip factory with virtual IDM as its operating strategy is expected to produce by the end of 2019.
The scale of integrated circuit design industry in Shenzhen has ranked first in China for many years, and the leading integrated circuit design enterprises have obvious advantages, and the resources are concentrated in large enterprises. In 2017, Shenzhen's enterprises accounted for 4 of the ten major integrated circuit design enterprises in China.
According to the Zhuhai Science and Technology Industry Bureau, in 2017, Zhuhai's IC design service revenue was 4.6 billion yuan, up 66% from the same period of the same year. Zhuhai ranked ninth among the ten largest cities in the design industry, and third among the ten cities with the highest growth rate in the design industry.
The State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI at the University of Macau is the only National Key Laboratory of microelectronics in Guangdong and Macau. Its research achievements have enjoyed high prestige in the world. At the same time, it has established high quality through training master's, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. The amount of chip technology and human resources platform.
Mr Yu Chengbin, chairman of the founding Committee of the Macao Microelectronics Association, member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education and the Science and Technology Committee of the Macao SAR Government, also said that there is no need for every place to do the industrial chain. The cost is too high. The whole Dawan area is the industrial chain.
Yu Chengbin further analysis of the first financial reporter, the need for joint development, but not absolute division of labor, such as Macau in analog design is strong, and digital circuit design is better in South China, the role of the alliance is to bring together government, industry, education and research, in order to better understand each other's strengths and needs. Better interaction later.
Yu Chengbin also said that the biggest challenge lies in talent and investment. Shortage of talent will lead to increased robbery everywhere, and the chip needs a long time to accumulate, too frequent flow of talent is not conducive. If we only focus on a certain part of the investment is not enough, we need to concentrate resources for a long-term, comprehensive investment, we can see the effect.
