2006 China will become the world's second largest chip design center

According to technology research firm Isuppli report, by Chinese design or part of the design of the chip products will account for 14.8% of global sales this year China chip, and then become the world's third largest chip design center. The agency said the world's largest chip design center is still the United States, its share of 40.2%, ranking the first place in Japan, accounting for about 15.5% of China's Taiwan column of fourth, to $second, or $10.1%.

Chinese is becoming a global semiconductor production base, in recent years Chinese semiconductor market has been in the rapid development, according to SIA data, the total size of China market reached $40 billion last year, total sales of $213 billion for the same period of global. Greg Sheppard, vice president of Isuppli said, including China, Hongkong, Taiwan, China's largest chip design will catch up with japan. By 2006 China will surpass Japan to become the world's second largest chip design center.

As production capacity and reputation in core international and domestic producers are on the rise, AMD, Intel and STMicroelectronics are ready in China assembly or production of the chip, but in China, chip growth has been slow, mainly because of its lack of experience in the chip designer.