Formed in the semiconductor market in the past, only the most cutting-edge performance products can survive structure, now is from low to high performance market. The Internet of things (IoT), smart cars, wearable devices, such as the unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), drive system chip demand rapid increase. These devices need to pick up action application processor (AP), CMOS image sensor (CIS), communication, near field communication (NFC) wireless chip, GPS chip, power management chip and the chip system.
South Korea's traditional industries such as construction of shipbuilding, shipping, is facing a huge crisis, the semiconductor industry is to master accounts for about 70% of the city in the global memory market rate. South Korean semiconductor plant half began after about 20 years since the 1990 s, with the United States, Europe, Japan memory chip industry compete bleeding, and managed to survive. DRAM semiconductor, such as prices continue to fall, profit-seeking slip, but Samsung (Samsung Electronics) and SK Hynix (SK Hynix) Korean semiconductor companies in the global memory chip market, hard to shake.
South Korean semiconductor experts warned, however, the south Korean semiconductor industry an excessive emphasis on memory chips. In response to the rapid growth of the Internet of things, such as automatic car driving multiple market demand, in addition to the last memory chip industry competitiveness, should the system chip market forces.
Its for two reasons, one is the rise of China, the second is global non-memory chip growth faster than memory. China semiconductor industry with huge capital and market rapid rise, Korea factory should be balanced development of memory and the memory of mainland companies to respond to the offensive.
South Korea system even lags behind that of the semiconductor chip industry rising star. To fill a IC design and wafer foundry, architecture semiconductor ecosystem, focuses on South Korea's industrial structure is still the memory, and can't get rid of a subordinate specific big enterprise architecture.
SK Materials on behalf of the director Lin Min kei (transliteration), a professor at the department of electronic engineering, hanyang university fusion PiaoZaiQin AnQiXian south Korean semiconductor industry association (transliteration), the new Han Jinrong investment analyst Sue philosophers (transliteration), and other experts have put forward solutions.
First of all, the experts think that the south Korean government should be more active come forward to solve the semiconductor design to the problem of shortage of talent. Sue philosophers, said wants to ensure that the system chip competitiveness, design talent is very important, talent shortage, South Korea has throws the enterprise to survive.
At the same time, enterprises should be bold in merger and acquisition, and through the support of IC design architecture ecosystem. PiaoZaiQin said, big companies such as samsung should have itself technology, the enterprise merger and acquisition, high-level talent, etc, can be powerful offensive against the mainland. Small and medium-sized IC design industry a few big companies should accept OEM, and support technology.
South Korean semiconductor competitiveness only limited to the memory chips, and memory of global semiconductor market by about 25%, in 75% of the system on chip market, only samsung AP, eastern tech center (Dongbu HiTek) power chips, which are active in the field of analog semiconductors; the rest is inferior to the global industry.
South Korean semiconductor manufacturing technology in the leading position in the whole world, and Taiwan, such as the United States also has 14 nanometers production process technology, system chip product variety, South Korea's good performance in the area of the AP, but no other products of special performance. Worse than the United States and South Korea's IC design technology, talent and no.
South Korea in the past, big companies such as samsung as the center, driven by the government to strengthen memory chips. Memory chips can be through a few varieties, a large number of production to strengthen the cost competitiveness, and system chip to many varieties, a small amount of production, compared with manufacturing competitiveness, pay more attention to circuit design ability. To improve South Korea IC design capability, large companies should be activated to a memory chip, the university also should focus on cultivating talents on circuit design.
South Korean government in the past have driven system 2010 and system 2015 chip support business, ecological architecture system chip system, although the system chip industry environment, a slight improvement but not success, still needs the efforts of the folk.
At the same time, South Korea need to develop more of IC design enterprises. Now South Korea between about 200 IC design companies, but compared to the United States, between about 500 mainland between about 600 and so on are insufficient, should try to support youth entrepreneurship, throws the enterprise survival of architecture suitable ecosystem.
