Zhang Rujing said the core into the solar cell is not a whim

Purely to chip foundries to define SMIC (NYSE:SMI, hereinafter referred to as "core") are not suitable. In the new global energy concept to attract, the world's third largest semiconductor industry has to enter the solar cell market group.

President Zhang Rujing yesterday on the first financial daily said, into solar cell manufacturing is not a whim, but a natural strategy. In fact, last year, China has started the layout, but recently completed a customer certification. SMIC has received orders from the German and Japanese manufacturers, in April will be officially mass production.

"There are a lot of similarities between the production of solar cells and semiconductors, SMIC involved in the production of solar cells is very natural. There are currently more than 300 thousand chips in the chip can be used to produce solar cells." Zhang Rujing explained.

"China is very rich in silicon reserves, since the core technology, so ready to do their own." Zhang Rujing stressed. Reporters learned that the global semiconductor and solar cell industry demand for silica, a year of no more than 1 million tons, but the Inner Mongolia silicon silica reserves of up to 2 tons.

At present, the global solar cell supply shortage, retail prices in Europe and the North American market is continuing to rise, the EU market has risen to 5.8 euros / Watt, the North American market also rose to $5.34 / Watt.

In fact, the solar cell industry has attracted a large number of mainland enterprises to enter, and the emergence of the United States sought after by investors in Wuxi Suntech. But an industry source said, in fact, China's solar cell industry is still very small scale, has not really become a climate, but also the lack of long-term industrial planning.

If SMIC can play a low-cost advantage, and the formation of production capacity, will be expected to get a huge return. However, the reporter learned that the core of the national solar cell production capacity is still very low.

The company public relations manager Miao Weiyi claimed that the core into new areas is diversified, but the extension of industry, but also conforms to the current trend of renewable energy and new energy concept.