Recently, the media, to promote the development of domestic IC industry, the ministry, the national development and reform commission and other relevant departments to formulating an integrated circuit industry in the course of the year the niche industry to guide policy.

Chip import dependence on serious in our country Countries began to "core" plan

Chip can be called integrated circuit or semiconductor, it is a tiny volume of electronic components, in the electronic information industry has a very high value.

The IT industry in our country great demand for integrated circuit products, domestic chip can only meet 20% of the market, the domestic IT industry most chips need to purchase from abroad. Therefore, Chinese IC industry dependence on imported chip.

Memory chips, for example, China is the world's biggest memory chip purchasing countries, in 2014, the procurement in China about twenty percent of the global memory chip, purchasing amount is $10 billion, 2015 years ago in October, purchase the amount of memory chips in China has risen to $12 billion, 2015 annual purchase amount up to $14 billion, about thirty percent of the global memory chip market.

Chip consumption are heavily dependent on imports, the adverse to the national economy and security, so in 2014, China launched the national integrated circuit industry development to promote outline, and also established the national integrated circuit industry investment fund (that is, the big fund), in 2015, the 2025 key areas technology roadmap ", made in China, the integrated circuit industry listed in the list of key development industry, recently, the ministry of finance issued on software and integrated circuit industry enterprise income tax preferential policies about the problem.

Frequent policy for China's "core" plan is already open, integrated circuit industry growing up.

The global counter attack integrated circuit industry rapid development

Based on good policy and funds, as global semiconductor market collapse in 2015, our country implements the contrarian development.

The global IC market downturn of 2015, the market sales were $335.2 billion, down 0.2% year-on-year, smartphone growth to slow down, and the PC market is the main reason. Although China has also been the two factors interference, but China's integrated circuit the size of the market in 2015 is still maintained a fast growth.

"Core" program to help industry rapid development of integrated circuits

IC market in China in 2013 sales of about 916.6 billion yuan, up 7.1% from a year earlier. 2014 sales topped one trillion yuan, 1.03931 trillion yuan, up 13.4%; 2015 IC sales of 1.1024 trillion yuan, up 6.1% from a year earlier.

Not only that, in the industry development, China's integrated circuit industry chain and industrial clusters have been formed, and sound development.

The industrial chain, integrated circuit industry is on the middle and lower reaches of the three links. Upstream is chip design link, our country has haisi, spreadtrum company; Middle is manufacturing, smic, zhenhua technology is representative; The downstream is encapsulation testing link, our country has long telegram technology, hua tian science and technology, etc.

Industry clusters, have our country Yangtze river delta, bohai sea, the pearl river delta three major IC industry gathering area, the three regional integrated circuit industry sales revenue accounts for more than 90% of the whole industry scale.

Bohai sea area focus on chip research and development, with Beijing as the core; Pay attention to chip manufacturing and testing, in Yangtze river delta with Shanghai as the core; The pearl river delta region focus on chip design link, with shenzhen as the core.

Corner overtaking: merger/consolidation is the shortest cut

Although in the past year, China's IC market had a counter attack feat, but for overseas chip dependence is still large, local industry scale is small, the core technology advantages do not show there is still some disadvantages, such as, therefore, further development need to expand the scale, improve the technology.

The author thinks that, internal integration, foreign mergers and acquisitions is the integrated circuit industry scale, improve the core technology of "shortcut", in the future these two phenomena will become a mainstream industry development.

In September 2014, national organization multiple enterprises set up a national integrated circuit industry investment fund, began to actively help domestic enterprises to invest the merger activities. The end of December 2014, with the help of the industrial investment fund, long telegram technology and temasek deal, announced a $780 million bid for the world's fourth largest chip testing vendors Singapore branch chippac full ownership, this is the current domestic integrated circuit enterprises out of the most heavily.

This year the main rhythm of industry development in the integrated circuit will still be mergers and reorganization, and would be a breakthrough in quantity and amount. The brewing overseas acquisition will not less than 2015 years