Smic IC manufacturing co., LTD., executive vice President Li zhi

Since the eighteenth big, xi jinping, general secretary published a series of important speech, clearly expounds the significance of the information industry of the whole national economy, and facing the challenges and opportunities, the development of industry has important guiding significance.

Integrated circuit is fundamental, pioneering, strategic core technology, is one of the "curse" of Internet information industry. Development of integrated circuit industry matters to the development of net letter industry, has a strong leading role to the national economy. Smic as domestic integrated circuit manufacturing enterprises, was a long, time and tide wait for no man.

Focus on development of integrated circuit manufacturing

General secretary on net letter enterprise to breakthroughs in core technologies, one of the key point is "on the research into concentrate resources to accomplish large undertakings".

Integrated circuit manufacturing is characterized by high investment, high permeability and high value-added, each 1 yuan integrated circuit production can be carried on 10 yuan output value of electronic information industry, leading to about 100 yuan of GDP growth. In addition, the physical strength of the IC manufacturing, located in the industrial chain middle, driving effects obvious, only accumulated to a certain degree of manufacturing development can eventually form the coordinated development of design, manufacturing, materials and other links.

And the integrated circuit manufacturing industry assets belong to heavy industry, huge investment, long profit, to raise the social and financial difficulty and high cost of capital. A 28/20 scale production of 12 inches of nanotech chip production line need to invest $5 billion; 14 nanotechnology r&d need to more than $1 billion; Since the launch of a 12-inch integrated circuit production line, take seven years to profit.

Smic, for example, last year's technology research and development costs $237 million, about 10% of the company's sales revenue, and net income. Only one of the few domestic enterprises can do such a great r&d, but even so, look from the amount of invested or far below the TSMC, Intel such international wafer manufacturing companies. To be in the IC industry in China, therefore, to realize rapid development, in addition to the enterprise itself constantly input and accumulation, countries also need to increase investment in integrated circuit manufacturing, in key areas and weak links, key enterprises, such as for centralized investment, centralized superior resources, optimize capital allocation, leading enterprises strive to cultivate 1 ~ 2 home.

Companies dominate the accelerating transformation of technical achievements

General secretary in the speech he made clear that technology to develop, must want to use. In the field of global information, innovation chain, industry chain and value chain integration capacity is more and more become the key to determine success or failure.

Enterprise is the effective market participation main body, also should be the transformation of technical achievements has become the dominant, the technical research and development, the achievements and market organically. Currently, smic 28 nm manufacturing process has realized scale production, become the first domestic can provide 28 nm process service enterprises. In addition to under 14 nm and also in the research and development of parallel technology, currently 14 nm FinFET patent number has reached the world's top five. Process at the same time, continue to investment characteristics, such as power management chip, rf/wireless technology, rf front-end module, CMOS image sensor, micro mechanical systems/sensors, embedded memory, etc. These characteristic process is the foundation for the future Internet related applications and market demand, the core in many market segments have been leading in the world.

In the period of "11th five-year plan" and the "twelfth five-year" period, smic and fudan university, Shanghai micro system of Chinese academy of sciences, Shanghai integrated circuit research and development center and other universities and research institutions, sustained industry-university-institute cooperation to share the country a number of important topic.

Promote combination, collaborative research

General secretary, said on the core technology research and development, to play the core technology research and development to be completed, not only to blow up signal, and to blow up the service calls, which is to accumulate the strongest strength together, constitute the research team, the special.

In June 2015, smic and huawei, IMEC, qualcomm jointly set up new technology research and development company, to develop the next generation of CMOS logic process. Under the new mode, the only independent high-end IMEC silicon technology research institutions, through technical injection and participate in joint research and development, shorten the pre-research and the early stage of the process research and development time; In the process of process optimization, qualcomm, huawei haisi involved, import the product to verify in advance, and shorten the research and development of middle and later time, speed up the industrialization. This cycle is expected to shorten 1 ~ 1.5 years. At the same time, to develop the core technology of autonomous control, and can be licensed to other domestic enterprises use of integrated circuits; Design, equipment, materials will also be invited to the company and the industry chain on the relevant enterprises to join, to speed up the patent and the cultivation of the talent, to build an open platform for the most advanced integrated circuit technology research and development.

The trend of the integrated circuit industry in the global division of labor and cooperation is overwhelming. Recently, smic and European integration circuit foundries Lfoundry acquisition agreement, will boost smic officially stationed in the global automotive electronics market, and domestic manufacturers to develop automobile electronic lay the foundation for the future.

Integrated circuit industry is the national strategic industry, smic will seize the golden opportunity, through long-term struggle growing strength, also called for more domestic industry chain upstream and downstream enterprises to strengthen the integration and cooperation, joint efforts to do the national integrated circuit industry bigger and stronger, and promote China and the global semiconductor industry coexistence and co-prosperity.