On August 27, news, China vigorously promote the development of domestic chip industry, the goal is to become the leading global computer chip manufacturing industry in the future. This grand plan seems to be encountered insurmountable obstacles.
In 2014, China announced it will invest 100 billion dollars in chip design and manufacturing industry, in order to occupy the industry in the future. Large sums of money has been invested a new factory building. But consultancy Bain, according to the latest analysis (Bain & Company in China by relying on nothing more than the $100 billion investment will not be able to keep yourself in the chip industry took the lead.
XMC state-owned Chinese chip manufacturing enterprises (wuhan new core IC manufacturing co., LTD.) is aggressively build factories for processing NAND flash memory and DRAM chips, is expected to be completed the first factory in 2017 and put into use. Earlier this year, made in China using independent chip built the world's fastest supercomputers currently: "great power" supercomputer. This achievement of western chip makers expectation.
But the development of the industry is not achieved overnight. China now bear the amount of 15% of the global semiconductor industry manufacturing, bain expects to 2020 China will produce 55% of the world's memory, logic and analog chips. The aims of China's statement is to raise the proportion to 70% in 2025.
Bain thinks, if just rely on organic growth, 70% of China's manufacturing global semiconductor targets is almost a "mission impossible". They think that China is the only way to achieve this goal by building partnerships with other chip manufacturing enterprises or direct acquisition of other companies. That can help Chinese fast gain technology and talent, to avoid starting from scratch.
If you don't take cooperation and acquire such export-oriented method, bain thinks that China is unable to achieve their goals. They commented: "global companies and consumers will be according to the chip quality, technology, value and brand and so on factors to decide which one to buy the product. If you want to make substantive progress in the global market, China's semiconductor manufacturers must catch up with their foreign competitors in terms of technology."
