China chip design and world compared to the level of at least 5 years

Tan Jun, President of China's ARM business, said Sina Technology, China's chip design capability compared with the world level, at least 5 years difference. The development of China's semiconductor industry in the future is also faced with four obstacles, such as industrialization, intellectual property, talent and capital.

The same ability to verify the ability to design and test chip development

In July 26th, market research firm In-Stat released a report, which said that China has the ability to design a world-class microprocessor.

Dr. Tan Jun said that 100% of the semiconductor industry requires intellectual property rights, but not necessarily all of its own intellectual property rights of 100%. According to Moore's law, the number of transistors in a chip will double in 18 or 2 years, according to Tan Jun, only for the manufacturing capacity of the chip. But an overview of the global industry, chip design capabilities can not do this, not to mention the ability to verify the chip.

The ability to verify is the ability of the chip developer to verify whether the transistors in the chip can complete the design process. However, with the increase in the number of transistors on the chip, this ability has become a huge challenge for chip development. Therefore, most of the chip companies in the industry are buying intellectual property rights to shorten the product development cycle. Data released by the survey agency showed that the majority of transistors on the chip has billions of dollars, how to connect these transistors and verify their design capabilities become a huge challenge to the chip business. Therefore, in the global chip industry, how to realize the connection and design of intellectual property in nearly 50% are bought, thus eliminating the need for chip companies to verify their own. According to the forecast, by 2008, the number of transistors on a single chip will exceed 1 billion, when there will be a transistor design and implementation of the technology is to buy 80%.

Therefore, Tan Jun believes that chip design companies will be more willing to buy what has been designed to turn their attention to the part of their expertise. At this time, if there is infringement, then, will be reflected in the trademark, product design layout, design principles, or how to achieve the function of the patent."

Current situation of intellectual property protection in China

In-Stat research report released, China's semiconductor market protection of intellectual property rights has also attracted media attention.

Tan Jun cited the latest CCID report said that in 1999, China's integrated circuit company's total turnover of 1 billion 600 million yuan, up to 2004, when it was doubled to RMB 8 billion 200 million. At present, China's semiconductor market capacity of 290 billion, but China can only provide products of RMB 8 billion 200 million.

However, he believes that, after 5 years of development, Chinese companies continue to gain access to intellectual property rights through the development of the industry, but also to create their own intellectual property rights. "Some of the leading intellectual property companies in China are no worse than foreign ones," said Tan Jun.

The Chinese market has shown great enthusiasm for the development of independent chip technology, investment is also gradually increasing. Tan Jun said that the chip design capabilities, as well as the ability to verify the development of China's chip will become, and even the entire semiconductor industry challenges.

The report shows that China has the ability to design a world-class chip, but the chip production technology than the whole industry behind the two generation. For this, Tan Jun believes that the Chinese market in the manufacturing process of the two generation, but at least the ability to verify the difference of more than 2 generations, the design capacity is lagging behind for the past 5 years.

He also said that the current growth in the chip industry, in the selection of a good R & D technology, software, industrialization, and even intellectual property rights are facing a variety of challenges. Domestic semiconductor industry is still in its initial stage, if we can not establish a mutual trust mechanism, may affect the healthy development of the industry".

Tan Jun suggested that China's chip industry in order to catch up as soon as possible, can be purchased by other companies authorized way of intellectual property, you can quickly catch up with. At the same time also need to work together to industry chain. From the user's point of view, they should consider whether to choose an intellectual property, or choose an integrated industry chain. Chip development is now more than just hardware design, but also the need for hardware and software design. That is, in the design of the circuit at the same time, but also need to use this circuit software written. At this time only the joint efforts of the industry chain. At the same time, as a supplier of intellectual property rights, if you want to be successful, it must help the customer and the customer's success, we work together to promote the development of the industrial chain, and thus achieve win-win situation. This is especially critical in "a" period of Chinese IC design industry."