UMC, ucm Japan President Zhang Renzhi believes that the Japanese semiconductor industry has "drop stop board" bottom, opportunities emerge, expected after five years of Japanese semiconductor industry is expected to rebound.

Observation of Japanese semiconductor industry, Zhang Renzhi said, the Japanese semiconductor companies from the system derived thrive, from upstream semiconductor integrated system products, then the system cause body and wafer body separation step by step, the Japanese semiconductor industry is to integrate components factory (IDM). Japan's semiconductor industry due to business needs further developed a new career in the field of memory, sales object is given priority to with the Japanese domestic market.

Zhang Renzhi points out, but the Japanese domestic market scale change is not big, by contrast, the global semiconductor market scale is constantly expanding, while foreign markets accounted for the proportion of Japanese semiconductor industry is declining, so the Japanese semiconductor industry recession in recent years, but seems to have "drop stop board" hit bottom.

From semiconductor application, Zhang Renzhi said that Japan's industrial and automotive semiconductor power is relatively strong, expected Japanese automotive semiconductor market annual growth rate to 5% to 10%, in addition, Japan also have advantages in power management chip, in communications and data processing chip, the size of the market continues to decline to Japanese carmakers, special application chip (ASIC) stabilized.

Outlook for Japan's semiconductor industry prospects, Zhang Renzhi analysis and opportunities, domestic market size no smaller Japan itself, but rather a slight growth, introduce the foreign talent and outsourcing contract will improve, continuously expand the sales market, for Taiwan's semiconductor industry, is an opportunity.

Zhang Renzhi said in 2015, the Japanese semiconductor outsourcing contract of $2.5 billion, most of them share obtained by Taiwan manufacturer, mainly composed of telecommunications applications. Zhang Renzhi expectations, five years later, the Japanese semiconductor industry have the opportunity to rally.

Observe China and Taiwan semiconductor industry, Zhang Renzhi, said China's semiconductor technology still has space to grow up and the chip Taiwan in special application of ASIC chip power is relatively strong, but between the system and the semiconductor ASIC has openings to make up.

For umc cooperation with Fujitsu semiconductor progress, Zhang Renzhi said, Fujitsu, accumulative total to 2015, 8 inch wafer in umc for quantity of 200000 pieces, both sides of the future will continue to expand the business cooperation, Fujitsu in automotive non-volatile memory strength, future automotive non-volatile memory controller require collocation, the two sides will continue to mutually beneficial cooperation.