Domestic IC design industry needs to break through the industry

Along with the global integration of science and technology, IC industry monopolized by developed countries history has gone. In recent years, due to the pressure of human resources and scale production costs, the focus of international IC manufacturing began to shift to the third world countries. In the industrial policy support, a large number of investment and market driven, China has become the world's chip industry in the territory of the important plate and the fastest growing region. A research report from CCID Consulting shows that China's chip production continues to rise - in 2003, China's total chip output exceeded 10 billion mark, in 2004 broke the 20 billion. 2004, China's chip industry reached 54 billion 530 million yuan, an increase of 55.4% over the previous year.

With the development of the domestic industrial environment, China's semiconductor industry has also started from simple foundry to independent design and development. In the whole industry chain, IC design is the most critical link, but also the most abundant technology link. As an important bridge to connect the market demand and chip processing, IC design is an important carrier of the performance of the chip, intellectual property and patent.

In 2004, IC design industry in China has achieved amazing development. 2004 China's IC design industry reached 8 billion 150 million yuan, an increase of up to 81.5%. From the China semiconductor industry association data show that in 2000 to 2004 5 years, the mainland China IC design enterprise net increase of 443, there are about 500, more than the total number of enterprises in the United States has on the Silicon Valley and Taiwan Province, the average annual growth rate of 54%, the total employed up to 15 thousand and 900 people.

In recent years, stars, the ark, godson, patriot, core and other Chinese core was born, but also make a lot of people shouted from the "made in China" to "created in China" slogan. From the design of the chip to the production, testing and packaging, China has basically formed a complete industrial chain.

To the Beijing Shanghai as the center of the domestic IC design hundred flowers

The development of IC design industry in China, especially in Beijing, Shanghai as the center of the Beijing Tianjin Bohai Bay region and the Yangtze River Delta region is more prominent. These areas are in the leading position in terms of number of enterprises, registered capital and talent aggregation. The IC design enterprises are taking these two areas as the center, everywhere. In 2004 14 sales of more than 100 million enterprises, there are 12 from the two regions. In the domestic IC design in various fields, a representative of the enterprise also come from this. These two areas of China's IC design industry has produced a great "core" role.

In recent years, in the national IC design sales, the traditional IC card application covers the areas of transportation, communications, banking, information management, oil, labor security, identity, security and many other aspects. The proportion of IC card chip has occupied about 20% of the total chip market, the main design companies, Datang microelectronics Chinese China, Shanghai Huahong, Tsinghua Tongfang, Fudan Microelectronics etc.. At the same time, China's second generation ID card has been developed using the RFIC card chip, and improve the entire RFIC card manufacturing, application of the entire process of industrial chain, to ensure the safety of the use of.

And home appliances, electricity, power management and other consumer electronic products with MCU, LCD and ASIC, has formed a backbone design enterprise in China, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou Silan microelectronics, Fudan microelectronics.

In the emerging hot market, China's independent design of the chip products have been involved in the CPU/DSP, high-end IC card, digital television (DTV) and multimedia, mobile phones and information security and other six areas. IC design technology quickly into the international mainstream technology (0.25 micron -0.18 micron) level. The development and industrialization of the core chip with independent intellectual property rights have also made considerable group breakthrough.

For example, in terms of CPU/DSP, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of computer science, dragon core series, ark science and technology ark series, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Han core series, etc..

In the field of digital television (DTV) and multimedia chip, the digital multimedia chip represented by the "Star" series of Beijing Zhongxing microelectronics has become the symbol of the internationalization of IC design in china. March 2001, the star of the digital image processing chip, star one was born, which is the first of China's own intellectual property rights of millions of large scale digital image asic. Star series of chip products after launch, sales across Europe and the United States, Japan, Korea and other 16 countries and regions, has become China's first large-scale enter the international market "China core" ended "Chinese without core" of history. The success of "Starlight China project" marks the first time that the enterprises in the field of IC design in China have stepped onto the international stage.

By 2004, Vimicro has launched to low energy consumption, fast and effective treatment of high quality multimedia data of the "star five" digital multimedia chip, and has realized the integration of mobile phone, mobile storage and digital camera, to prepare in advance for the arrival of the era of 3G. More people in the industry believe that the spring of China IC design has come".

IC design challenges to meet the needs of the industrial process

Although China has become an important global chip processing base, but in the face of the developed countries and regions IC "powers", the IC design industry in China, both in the technical level, or economy of scale are facing severe test and challenge.

At present, the advantage of IC design company in China is mainly reflected in the domestic government monopoly industry procurement and low-end chip market. Datang microelectronics, for example