Purple light group recently, Taiwan media said the mainland to nearly 88.2 billion new Taiwan dollars (17.2 billion yuan) to buy Taiwan's three major IC (integrated circuit) testing plant about 25% of the equity. Senior analyst meinl after long-term observation of Taiwan industry, said China wants to "m&a" semiconductor market to improve the position in the industry, the internal receiving chip industry in Taiwan.

According to Taiwan's ettv ETtoday cloud news on December 21, the United States institutions Semiconductor Advisors, according to Chinese development of Semiconductor industry wants to step "eating", using the "m&a" actions of Taiwan industry in ways. Maier further stressed that the Taiwan semiconductor companies by foreign local internal receiving, rather than let the enterprise competition between the outside eat, through semiconductor industry "m&a", without a single soldier or ammunition, can achieve your goals in a short time, or need to spend at least 15 to 20 years to catch up.

Reported that purple light group chairman wei-guo zhao has publicly questioned the Taiwan government is not opened IC design industry, also said m&a leading mediatek Taiwan IC design. Subsequently, head of Taiwan's economy Deng Zhenzhong said, will be open in a relax restrictions, local in IC design industry.

Maier said that Taiwan's economy depends greatly on the electronic industry, especially in semiconductor, "semiconductor and electronics industries, like rocket fuel, power for Taiwan's economy for a long time". China semiconductor industry is relatively backward, even with smic and other foreign companies set up by the fabs, still cannot reach the level of the United States, South Korea or Taiwan.

According to the report, the mainland government has said, in the next few years will be about $100 billion (China's integrated circuit industry investment fund 600 billion yuan) to build their own chip industry.