In 2015, the overall development condition of Chinas integrated circuit industry as a whole is still good , but it is also facing many problems. Therefore , this year , what opportunities , challenges , development focus and prospects the electronic information industry is facing this year ? overall speaking , the development condition of Chinas integrated
circuit industry is as follows :
Trend one ： Chinas IC market will continue to lead global growth .
In 2014, China IC market size exceeded more than 1 trillion Yuan , being higher than the growth rate of the leading global market .Driven by a diverse range of applications , its market size will continue to maintain rapid growth trend , reaching 1.2 trillion Yuan and accounting for half of the global IC market , a year on year growth exceeding 10% and far surpassing the 3% growth rate of the world , which has made China become the leading global IC market growth engine .
With the intensifying of international market competition , the improvement in domestic policy and capital environment will promote the changing of global industrial structure . Driven by the strong market demand , the transfer of technology and funds is accelerating and China will usher in new development opportunites . In the past 11 months of year 2015 , the domestic industry sales revenue has reached 350 billion Yuan , an average annual growth rate of 18%.
Trend two : Chinese IC companies began to enter the worlds first tier .
China IC enterprises are continuing to enhance strength . Hass has been among the worlds top Fabless , becoming the leading sheep of Chinas integrated circuit industry .
Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd , in year 2015 , ascended to the top list of global fabless list . It acquired Spreadtrum and RDA and got Intel share , becoming giants in the domestic IC enterprise by the end of year 2014 . Changdiang electronics technology , united with China Core international Shanghai subsidary , jointly funded to merge the fourth global semiconductor packaging and testing company , Singapore Stats Chip DAC . If the acquisition is successfully completed , there is no doubt that it will enter into the worlds top five in the packaging industry . All things considered ,driven by the overall market growth in the domestic market in year 2015 , Chinas IC enterprises strength is continuing to improve .
Trend three: Industry fund leads the IC industry investment boom
With the starting of the national IC industry investment fund projects , the leading domestic companies have started merging and restructuring , driving the big integration of the entire integrated circuit industry , thus the investment market is gradually becoming hot at present . Now the first period investment in national integrated circuit industry fund is expected to reach 138.72 billion Yuan , to achieve additional raise of 18.72 billion Yuan . Aiming at the funds focusing on making investment in chip manufacturing industry and taking into account of the Chinese planning in chip design , packaging and testing , equipment and materials and other industries , to make Chinas independent brand IDM or virtual IDM, the five years period from 2015 is expected to become the fund intensive investment period , thus driving the active flow of the industry capital . With the official landing of the first project of the integrated circuit industry investment fund , the purpose of the funds aiming at stimulating the development of Chinas IC chip industry in the next 10 years will pull 5000 billion Yuan investment in the field of chip industry .
Trend four: China will become the hot global investment area of 12 -inch IC production line .
High capacity and low cost will be the key to the completion of future integrated circuit plant . Therefore , the reduction in size of the process and the enlarging in the size of the wafer will be the future development trend of integrated circuit. In year 2014 , 12- inch wafer plant in China accounted for 7% of global 12 -inch wafer production line . There are mainly 10 production lines , four of which are set up by foreign enterprise . They are Hynix (Wuxi), Intel ( Dalian ) and Samsung (Xian). In the face of the rise in mainland IC design industry , year 2015 needs the strong support for wafer foundries . Domestic China international Huali Microelectronics etc foundries are in urgent need of expanding production capacity to build up new 12-inch wafer plant . At the same time , with the rise of internet of things and wearable device market , ISMC AND UMC and Anglo German foundries will be the first to seize the Chinese market , speeding up the layout in production line in China to make investment in 12-inch production line .
Trend five :12-inch wafer will officially implement "made in China" .
12-inch wafer represents the advanced level of the semi-conductor material . Now it is monopolized by foreign enterprises . 12-inch wafer in domestic market is mainly imported from abroad. However , Chinas IC market is gradually expanding and occupies half of the world ,especially with the continuous investment in the domestic integrated circuit manufacturing enterprises . International business is setting up plants in domestic China in large scale . The demand for 12-inch wafer in domestic market will be growing explosively . 12-inch wafer has a huge market . Its demand is expected to reach 60% of the total global capacity in year 2015 . Domestic enterprises are driven by the market demand , combining with
existing research manufacturing base , has the motive to promote the production of 12-inch wafer . At the same time , under the principle of being close to the market , the international enterprises are also expected to make investment in China to set up 12-inch wafer plant , which will make the raw material gap to get a certain degree of relief .
