IC has a promising prospect for a decade

For more than a decade, China’s integrated circuits have made tremendous progress in exploring the laws of industrial development and promoting the rapid development of the industry. Although there are still some imperfections in place, there are many problems in management and cognitive bias, but regardless of future How complicated and changeable the situation is and how difficult the difficulties are, it will not be able to stop the success of our country's integrated circuit industry and its splendor.

Achievements: Fruitful Results

For more than a decade, China's integrated circuits have made tremendous progress in many aspects in exploring the law of industrial development and promoting the rapid development of the industry, and have achieved a large number of innovation and application results.

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For more than a decade, the development of integrated circuits in our country has achieved tremendous results and has won numerous achievements.

First, the development environment and development base of the industry have been greatly improved. Since the issuance of the document “A Certain Policies to Encourage the Development of the Software Industry and the Integrated Circuit Industry” No. 18 Document of the State Council in 2000 and the issuance of the “Circular of the State Council on Printing and Distributing Certain Policies to Further Encourage the Development of the Software Industry and the Integrated Circuit Industry” in Document No. 4 of 2011, The country has established a favorable environment for the development of a favorable policy with a long-term mechanism. The government agencies at all levels throughout the country have actively supported and competitively developed the integrated circuit industry. This has long been a trend, and government agencies at all levels and within and outside the industry have The importance of the basic, strategic role and status in social informatization has been continuously strengthened. The multiplier effect of integrated circuits on the development of the national economy and the huge strategic economic value have been recognized by more and more people. The new generation of information technology with integrated circuits as the core leads, reforms, and develops the development of various industries and fields in the national economy. It has been widely recognized by the whole society and will become the fundamental driving force for the development of the integrated circuit industry. In any area of ​​the entire IC industry chain, continuous innovation is needed to promote development, and technological innovation has now become a national wide consensus. The IC industry's innovative environmental industry and innovation capabilities have also been huge compared with more than a decade ago. Progress has been established in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Chengdu and other 7 integrated circuit design industrialization bases (later Hong Kong joined it, becoming a 7+1 model), and built 15 national IC talent training bases. As well as various types of IP databases, IP transactions, patent searches, and other supporting platforms for service purposes, the development base of the integrated circuit industry has undergone tremendous changes, laying a solid foundation for further development in the future.

Second, there has been a tremendous increase in industrial scale, international market share, and technological level. The number and scale of enterprises, the total size of the industry, the number of employees, and the scale of production and sales have grown rapidly. The total sales volume of the integrated circuit industry increased from 18.62 billion yuan in 2000 to 157.22 billion yuan in 2011, an increase of 8.4 times; the share in the international market rose from 1.2% in 2000 to 8.7% in 2011. In particular, the IC design industry achieved the most outstanding development. Its sales increased from RMB 1.1 billion in 2000 to RMB 47.74 billion in 2011, an increase of 43 times. The level of design for a single chip includes 2.5 million chips per chip in 2000. The number of grades, about 25 million transistors, has risen to the current level of nearly 100 million gate-level transistors and hundreds of millions of transistors. Since the beginning of 2000, more than 20 8-inch to 12-inch integrated circuit chip production lines have been newly built, attracting domestic and foreign semiconductor companies to invest and build factories, providing comprehensive and multi-level development support for the cultivation and growth of integrated circuit talents. A batch of chip manufacturing companies represented by SMIC have successively developed and successfully entered the market. The technical level of the chip manufacturing line has also increased from the 8-inch, 0.25-micron at the beginning of 2000 to the current 12-inch, 45-nm new level, and is now The 12-inch 32-nanometer and 22-nanometer technology phases are progressing.

The third is to obtain a large number of innovation and application results, and made great contributions to the development of the national economy. The new achievements cover integrated circuit design, chip manufacturing, packaging, semiconductor-specific equipment, instruments, key raw materials, and numerous integrated circuit application fields. There are impressive high-level innovation achievements in various fields of the semiconductor industry chain. Not only the second-generation identity High-tech products such as license chips, 3G mobile phone core chips, and digital high-definition television chips, as well as domestic CPUs and their applications in Beidou navigation satellites, petascale computers, high-performance network servers, and next-generation communications equipment; in integrated circuits Key equipment and key materials needed for manufacturing, such as 12-inch 65-nanometer stepper, high-density plasma polysilicon, high-angle tilt high-dose ion implanter, 12-inch silicon polishing, 8-inch and 12-inch In-silicon epitaxial wafers, germanium silicon epitaxial wafers, SOI materials, wide bandgap compound semiconductor materials, 248 nm and 193 nm photoresists, etc., have also achieved a large number of high-level achievements, and these results are directly applied to integrated circuit production lines. These achievements have enhanced confidence in the development of the entire industry, stimulated the innovation of the industry, created an unprecedented atmosphere for the development of integrated circuit industries throughout the country mentioned above, and made outstanding contributions to the development of the national economy.

In addition, it has achieved tremendous progress in many aspects in exploring the development law of the integrated circuit industry and promoting the rapid development of the industry. More than ten years in terms of international cooperation and exchanges, investment and financing environment construction and total investment, attracting overseas students to return to China for entrepreneurship, establishment of IC industry R&D projects, improvement of technology management methods, and government decision-making mechanisms and mechanisms for the development of integrated circuits. There have been major advances and improvements.

Challenge: The environment is complicated and the opponent is powerful

There are still some imperfections in China's integrated circuit industry. There are many problems with management and cognitive bias. These difficult times in many aspects are testing and shaking the confidence of investors inside and outside the industry.

Although China's integrated circuit industry has made great progress in the past decade, but for a long time, domestic integrated circuits have gradually changed their role in the overall ability to serve the needs of the national economy in the course of catching up with the pace of development of the world's semiconductor industry. Strong and weak international competition, passive and unfavorable conditions have not yet been able to make fundamental breakthroughs. The status of China's integrated circuit industry in the development of the world's semiconductor industry is still far behind our great country status, market demand, and economic development level. There is a long way to go, there is a lot of work to be done, and the overall status quo remains Not optimistic. Difficult development tasks, a complex development environment, and fierce market competition all test our confidence and courage, and constantly put forward a variety of severe challenges:

First, the task of development is very arduous. Every time ahead, it will be difficult. As the premise and foundation for the existence of the information society, integrated circuits carry many important tasks such as promoting the progress of human society and the advancement of information and civilization, not only because of its huge strategic and economic value, but also because it is the technology and manufacturing of contemporary countries. An important measure of the comprehensive development level is the production equipment for the length of its industrial chain, the high technological content required for each specific area of ​​the industry chain, and the difficulty of solving the problems of each developing technology node. The processing precision and high-volume production reliability requirements, the design of an excellent integrated circuit product requires the high level of human intelligence, professional knowledge and design experience, the production of integrated circuits required for the ultra-clean plant and environment In order to maintain the necessary safeguards for the production environment and highly reliable equipment, a variety of high-end equipment and high-purity raw materials are needed to manufacture and manufacture hundreds of processes in the integrated circuit process, and hundreds of millions of transistors and components are required after production. Chips for quality identification and testing, and for application promotion needs to be built A large, simulation environment, the design process all kinds of software design, performance and power optimization tools and simulation environment simulation and testing, every step of development and progress in testing the limits of human intelligence. The gathering of the finest scientific and technological elites and engineers' communities in this area requires solving the most challenging problems in science and technology, production, and applications. The fierce competition among countries, the severe challenges, the arduous tasks, and the need for adequate knowledge and technology And ability to stand in this field and survive in development.