China is increasingly becoming a global chip design center

According to a report by consulting firm iSuppli released this year, said China design chip global semiconductor sales will account for 14.8% of total sales, thus becoming the world's third largest chip design center.

The report points out that the United States is still in the dominant position in the market, 40.2% of global semiconductor sales this year will come from the Design Institute in the country's design.

Japan will be located in second place, this year it will design the chip will account for the global chip sales of 15.5%. Taiwan, China will be the 10.1% place in the share of the top fourth.

As one of the semiconductor manufacturing centers, China's position is becoming increasingly prominent. Local manufacturers such as SMIC is increasing production capacity, while the world's leading manufacturers, including Intel, AMD and STMicroelectronics are also planning to produce microprocessors in china.

According to various estimates, China's semiconductor market in recent years, rapid growth last year, its size has reached about $40 billion. Global semiconductor market size of about $213 billion last year.

With the more and more major global producers seeking lower cost is closer to the customer and the production activities to China transfer, China market is expected to maintain two digit growth rate in the next two years. In contrast, this year, the overall growth of the industry will be flat with last year or to achieve a low single digit growth rate.