China's most popular semiconductor brand

Jointly organized by the China electronic newspaper and CCID Limited by Share Ltd first "China semiconductor market is the most popular brand contest in March 2 sunset under the curtain. Freescale Carle, PHILPS, Fujitsu microelectronics and other ten semiconductor brands to win.

The selection lasted 3 months, using a combination of websites and newspapers to collect votes. As of January 31st, received a total of 14486 valid votes. A group of experts in the primaries on the basis of the results, in accordance with the "brand for enterprise in China and the expected level of localization; the enterprise brand for the past two years sales profit and growth rate; for the brand in the process of cooperation, promote the innovation of the whole enterprise is Chinese capacity; for brands in the proportion of procurement and improve the localization level of facilities" the practice, in accordance with the method of weighted calculation to get the end results.

From the analysis of the results of this selection can be seen, increase local research and development efforts, and strive to achieve localization of production and supply, to establish a close partnership with the whole enterprise, participate in the training plan of talent localization is the main reason for semiconductor suppliers, popular in the Chinese market.

It is reported that the second China's most popular semiconductor brand selection activities will be held on December 1, 2005 -2006.

Attachment: 2004 China's most popular semiconductor brand

PHILPS semiconductors

PHILPS semiconductor is currently one of China's top three semiconductor suppliers. The Chinese market has been the strategic focus of PHILPS semiconductors, for which PHILPS semiconductor attaches great importance to investment in china.

November 2004, PHILPS consumer semiconductor innovation center was formally established in Shanghai. The center will work closely with local customers to design and develop more products for the local market. PHILPS semiconductor and Datang Mobile and Samsung Electronics Co founded the TD-SCDMA joint venture -- T3G Polytron Technologies Inc, providing the core TD-SCDMA chip group, reference design and related technology licenses for terminal users and mobile terminal equipment. Recently, PHILPS also joined hands with Ji Linhua microelectronics Limited by Share Ltd, set up a joint venture to jointly develop, design and production of bipolar power products.

In addition, PHILPS is also committed to the implementation of talent localization strategy, establish a mechanism for cultivating talents and Chinese development system to plan and provide occupation career development opportunities for talented people, and for the development of universities and business schools to provide support.

In China, in 2004, PHILPS's color TV chips continue to maintain the status of market leaders, and mobile phone chip sales in 2003 than 50% growth. PHILPS set-top boxes have been officially approved by the relevant government departments in China, began to promote the listing in the mainland of china. In the plane and LCD TV chips, many Chinese customers using PHILPS's chip products, the production of high-definition tv.

PHILPS is very optimistic about the future development of the Chinese market, continue to expand the local organization of human resources, increase investment. By the end of 2004, PHILPS semiconductor sales team in China and the number of technical support team of employees increased by more than 1 times the beginning of the year, while PHILPS will continue to research and development in Europe and china.

Xilinx

Xilinx is a world leader in programmable logic solutions, global programmable logic device (PLD) for more than 50% market share. The company develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of advanced integrated circuits, software design tools and intellectual property (IP) products. Customers can use the Xilinx and its partners in the automation of software tools and provide predefined system level functions of the IP software for kernel chip programming, to achieve a particular logical function.

Xilinx company was founded in 1984, has led to a revolutionary new technology, is a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and to create a free wafer production line (fabless) semiconductor business model, will all work in addition to product design, marketing and support outsourcing. Today, FPGA products more than half of the global market are provided by xilinx. Xilinx product line also includes a complex programmable logic device (CPLD). Xilinx 300mm wafer is one of the world's largest purchaser at present, at the same time is also a world leader in 90nm technology. In fact, the Xilinx advanced FPGA products are all produced by 300mm technology. By the end of 2004, Xilinx has shipped about 1500000 devices using 90nm technology in production.

Xilinx has more than 7 thousand and 500 clients in the world, the customer designs are more than 50 thousand pieces. Xilinx technology provides support for many of the world's product innovation, and is widely used in various applications, including telecommunications, computing infrastructure, digital consumer products, automotive and industrial tools etc..

Xilinx is regarded as a strategic market in China its global plan. According to the data provided by iSuppli, Chinese Xilinx is the largest PLD supplier, its local customers include all of China's major telecommunications and consumer electronics manufacturers. With the Chinese local design activities continue to increase, Chinese semiconductor market will become a powerful engine for the further development of xilinx.

freescale

Freescale Semiconductor is a leading semiconductor company in the world, providing embedded semiconductor products for a large and growing automotive, consumer, networking and wireless markets in the.

Carle, formerly known as the 50 year old Motorola semiconductor. The company from July 2004