South Korea China in mainland China and Taiwan increasingly close to the design scale of IC

South Korea and China, the positive development of IC design industry in recent years, the rapid growth of the scale of revenue IC design, IC design of the Asia Pacific region mainly gathered in IC design company Chinese mainland, Korea in addition to average annual revenue size in the year closer to China's Taiwan gap, from the manufacturing process and design capability, the two is a latecomer, estimated this year more than half of the company will reach 0.18 micron design.

Semiconductor industry in the Asia Pacific region competition designed by the foundry extends to IC, including Chinese, and Hongkong, South Korea, Singapore, India and other Asia Pacific countries and regions, by the policy leading force in the development of IC design, including South Korea and Chinese, rapid development in recent years.

The investigation EE Times IC design company's annual operating results show that the average income in 2005 Chinese, IC design companies will reach $7 million 800 thousand, an increase of 44.4% over 2005, IC design company in Taiwan area will reach $11 million 100 thousand in average revenue this year, than last year growth of 20.7%, the average income forecast chip design company in Korea this year will reach $8 million 100 thousand, an increase of 55.8% over last year.

In addition to the average annual income of IC design companies close to the mainland, South Korea and South Korea's IC design precision is also catching up with China's Taiwan region. The mainland IC design company, 60% of respondents used 0.18 micron or more sophisticated process of digital IC design, an increase of 12% over the last year, 72% of the respondents of the Korean IC design company with 0.18 micron digital IC design, representing an increase of 7%; China Taiwan design company IC 57%, estimated this year will be used 0.18 micron linewidth digital IC design, increased by 12% over last year.

China Semiconductor Association pointed out that over the past 5 years, China's IC industry has an average annual growth of more than 30%, the mainstream process from 2001 to 0.5 microns, to reach $0.18 in 2005. In addition, in Chinese, under the guidance of the policy, estimated that by 2010, 20 to 30 should cultivate an annual production value of more than $100 million Integrated Circuit Design Company, including two to three annual sales of $1 billion, it is estimated that China design company, IC design industry output value will reach 50 billion yuan, the design capacity of up to 65 nm, 2020 China, local IC sales will account for 15% of the world's market share.