Today, China has become the world's biggest smartphone manufacturers and markets. Though, the most core part of mobile phone as a chip, especially in the most profitable high-end chip, always in the hands of a small number of overseas enterprises, but the good news is that rely on China's huge market and fast walking step acceleration, represented by smic semiconductor manufacturing giants have begun to come to the fore in the market, become the representative of China semiconductor industry rise a bellwether.

To build mainland China's largest integrated circuit wafer manufacturing enterprises

The integrated circuit industry in general is divided into three most of the design, manufacture, packaging test. In manufacturing, foreign multinationals have been occupy the leading position, more than a decade ago, China in this field is blank.

In April 2000, smic was founded in Shanghai, which is also the Chinese mainland's first integrated circuit wafer foundry enterprise. In August of that year smic started piling in Shanghai pudong zhangjiang high-tech park, write a new page for China's integrated circuit industry.

Established 16 years, smic continuously enterprising, in places such as Shanghai, Beijing, tianjin, shenzhen investment in factories and industrial layout, to the global customers with 0.35 micron to 28 nm wafer foundry and technical services. Relying on advanced technology and production strength, at present, smic has become China's largest, the most advanced technology of IC foundry enterprise, ranks fourth in the world.

"Smic narrowed the gap wafer manufacturing in China and the world." Smic's CEO said chiu, smic's construction and development greatly promote the increase of wafer manufacturing process and technology of China, support the development of the IC design companies in China, China's IC design industry can achieve good result today, smic is among them a contribution.

Meanwhile, smic also positively driven technology development of the industry chain upstream and downstream. Since its inception, smic's vigorously support upstream and downstream enterprises, industrial cluster effect into full play. In upstream equipment industry, for example, smic pioneered the use of domestic manufacturers of equipment, along with the enterprise development process, it is factory technical ability also got improved significantly.

To compete with global giants advanced technology

Integrated circuit industry is seen as a parade of global advanced technology. If you want to win in the global competition, enterprises must continuously pursue advanced technology, with leading technology, to a place on the global stage and say.

So far, smic has introduced six generation technology, respectively is 0.18 um and 0.13 um, 40 nm and 90 nm, 65/55 nm, 28 nm. At the beginning of its establishment smic, the manufacture technology of mainland China is still in the 1 micron to 0.8 microns, and the beginning of investment in smic is 0.18 micron technology, advance the process node at one fell swoop for several generations.

Now, smic is first in mainland China to overseas and domestic customers to provide a complete 28 nm process service of pure wafer foundry enterprise. In addition, for the more advanced nano technology process, enterprises have also been continuously develop.

Recently, smic and datang telecom's core technology jointly announced, smic 28 nm high dielectric constant of metal gate (HKMG) process has been successfully flow, based on this platform, league core tech applies to smartphone in areas such as 28 nm SoC chip, at present already through the authentication, and ready to enter mass production stage. Out of this chip would promote carrying "Chinese core" smartphone market share will be further expanded.

According to chiu, smic 28 nanotechnology has started in the third quarter of 2015 and in the fourth quarter with a small amount of revenue contribution. Company goal is in the fourth quarter of 2016 reached ten percent of its revenue contribution.

Joint innovation to realize the industrial chain upstream and downstream cooperation

Makes no garland, everyone good is really good. Semiconductor resistance and long industrial chain, as a semiconductor manufacturing giant, also must be liaising with other peers.

The reporter understands, smic joint downstream users close cooperation, work together to create "Chinese independent brand". For example, skyworth, hisense, and other independent brands have been adopted by "sea" in the core, smart TV chip to change the present situation of Chinese TV iron core; Manufacturing based on the core of the 55 nanometer low-power embedded flash platform, huada electronics also launched China's first 55 nanometer smart card chip, at present the product has been successfully imported China mobile, China unicom and part of overseas operators, mass production and supply.

In addition to downstream users, upstream of the research and development ability are also important. Therefore, smic besides strengthening independent research and development, at the same time from the mind.

Previously, smic founded the "integrated circuit pilot technology research institute", fully integrating the resource of colleges and universities, the fragmentation of the domestic IC industry chain to rectify, break our IC r&d resources scattered, lack of independent innovation ability, can push linkage equipment manufacturers, material suppliers, suppliers, design companies and public platform of scientific research institutions, and as the backing, to strengthen the exchanges and cooperation with the international promote the development of IC industry in China.

In addition, smic joint Beijing university, tsinghua university, fudan university, zhejiang university, institute of microelectronics of Chinese academy of sciences, Chinese academy of sciences institute of micro system, launched by the unit to form a joint laboratory in the "core", in government projects, industrial cooperation, personnel training, patent and technology sharing, etc., play an important role.

In the core, with their own practice again annotation: as a technology driven industries, only constantly in technology, to overcome the difficult in the market.