Came earlier this month, the industry of China's largest integrated circuit chip ShangZiGuang group and wuhan new core manufacturing co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "wuhan new core") to enter the storage market.
Yesterday, a more exact message came out. According to the Wall Street journal reported that purple light group has acquired a stake in wuhan new core, and the latter will also changed its name to the Yangtze River Storage Technology company (Yangtze River Storage Technology Co.,).
According to reliable sources, chairman of purple light wei-guo zhao will be the President of the new holding company. In addition, the purple light is not a Yangtze river storage technology company's largest shareholder, the remaining equity control is integrated circuit industry investment fund and another by wuhan municipal government support fund.
In fact, last year purple light started to aim at the storage market, the company also nearly will rid of meguiar's income, but finally ended in failure. After that, the purple light activity. First investment in the western data, and help the west data acquire sandisk trading, then success in subfamily force into and the former China chairman, both not long ago wei-guo zhao in the big data industry summit rhetoric to spend $30 billion on a memory chip manufacturing, visible violet light layout determination of memory.
Wuhan new core size, though less purple light, but its memory program received the national IC industry investment fund and the academy of sciences. In march of this year received a $24 billion investment in wuhan city of wuhan new core launched the NAND Flash production base construction, is expected to begin in 2018, to form a quantity of 300000 pieces of the production scale in 2020.
The personage inside course of study thinks, violet light has money, wuhan new core production security, coupled with a third party (such as meguiar's) technical support, both China's memory chips together an excellent chance to catch up with foreign giants.
The core, the purple lights:
China is facing development of the historic opportunity of the memory, perhaps is the last opportunity. First of all, the international semiconductor industry in the transfer to China. Second, China's consumer market is huge, there is enough demand greater consumption. Third, storage industry a new growth engine, such as the Internet of things, big data center, intelligent household, dressing equipment, etc. Fourth, the emergence of new technology, the old technology is a turning point. China is expected to grow in memory, closing the gap. Finally, the national policy to the semiconductor industry vigorously support, is a good opportunity for the development of Chinese industry memory.
Storage industry become China's semiconductor industry the key breakthrough direction, purple is the core. Global memory market scale is huge, especially in recent years in the smartphone and tablet DRAM storage requirements and laptops SSD storage requirements. Memory of China market in 2014 is worth $20 billion, accounting for the global share of 25%, is expected to be the size of the market in 2018 will be $42 billion. But the current global memory market by South Korea's samsung and hynix, American micron and Sandisk, Toshiba five manufacturers monopoly. Countries urgently need to support domestic enterprises, the real training has the international first-class level of memory manufacturers the best way is to solve the domestic woes. There is no doubt that the violet light has become the leading domestic storage and the core leader, was high hopes.
Purple light private rights is the core 80 billion yuan orderly, complete industry chain to build memory chips. In May 2016, the company released the non-public a-share stock plan (revised), and related issues has been the company through for the fifth session of the 17th board meeting review, project is ordered as planned. Fitting for the price of 27.04 yuan/share, 2.96 billion shares, issued shares to raise money as much as 80 billion, it is mainly used for three projects: 1) investment to build storage class chip factories; 2) acquisition of force into a 25% stake in Taiwan and south alum 25% equity; 3) acquisition of chip industry chain upstream and downstream. Through the constant increase, the company to form a complete industry chain layout, to become the leading domestic storage industry.
Domestic high performance FPGA, break the foreign monopoly, military-industrial complex, communication and artificial intelligence, etc. Create the core as a core subsidiary of tongfang countries, adhering to the core tongfang countries started 10 years ago to the FPGA industry layout and input, focused on the FPGA research and development, production and sales. Released in 2015 Titan series products, is China's first independent don door level high performance FPGA, break the monopoly of foreign technology. Is expected to be used military-industrial complex communications, artificial intelligence, information security, data center and medical and other fields.
