2024年2月8日发(作者：昭阳e43)

J. Microelectron. Manuf. 2, 19020205 (2019)

doi: 10.33079/jomm.19020205

Editorial Introduction:

China's IC industry has been flourishing in recent years, huge market demand together with government

investments are the major driving forces for this development. The status and development momentum of the

Chinese IC industry also attracted wide interest and attention of international counterparts. A group of domestic

IC experts are invited by the JoMM to write a series of articles about China's IC industry, including the history,

current status, development, and related government policies. Information in these articles is all from public data

from recent years. The purpose of these articles is to enhance mutual understanding between the Chinese domestic

IC industry and international IC ecosystem.

The following article is the third one of this series, the status quo of China's IC industry. The IC industry

chain is very long including design, manufacturing, special equipment, materials, packaging and testing. The

article series are arranged in accordance with this scope.

Current Status of the Integrated Circuit Industry in China

― IC Manufacturing Industry

1. Introduction

The integrated circuit is a product featured with

fast revolution and high technologies. Speaking of the

current international market structure, IC companies

are struggling with intellectual property dominance,

the key IC industrial product global organizations

presents the characteristics of multinational monopoly.

Integrated circuit multinational companies’ sales,

manufacturing and R & D strategies are in the

direction of globalization.

As the largest integrated circuit market in the

world, the self-sufficient ability of integrated circuits

in China is low, and the pain of lacking core needs to

be addressed urgently. With the rapid development of

automotive electronics, smart phones and other

cutting-edge applications, the domestic integrated

circuit market has expanded rapidly.

At present, integrated circuits are still among the

cores of communication, multimedia and computer

technology. High added value, technology intensive,

strong competitiveness and huge output value are the

advantages of integrated circuit industry. Integrated

circuit industry has great potential and vitality, and it

is a well-deserved high-growth industry. Therefore,

we must vigorously develop the integrated circuit

industry, so as to promote the progress of economic

construction in China and accelerate the process of

information industrialization.

The integrated circuit design industry in China is

highly market-oriented. On the one hand, there are

many domestic enterprises engaged in integrated

circuit design, and the competition is fierce; on the

other hand, many IC design enterprises from abroad

have poured into the Chinese market, among which

there are plenty of well-known design companies with

strong capital and technical strength, which further

intensified the competition in Chinese market.

As the foundation and core of the information

industry, the integrated circuit is the basic, leading and

strategic industry of the whole world of the national

economy and the society. In recent years, China's

electronic industry has continued to grow at a high

speed, and the integrated circuit industry has

experienced a period of rapid development.

2. A Survey of Domestic Integrated

Circuit Manufacturers

The followings are brief review of the major

leading manufacturers that representing the

development of integrated circuits in China:

2.1．Semiconductor Manufacturing International

Corporation (SMIC)

Semiconductor Manufacturing International

Corporation (''SMIC", NYSE code: SMI, HK Ex

stock code: 981), SMIC was established in 2000. Its

headquarters is located in Shanghai, China. It is one

of the leading IC chip contract manufacturers in the

world, and it is also the largest and most advanced

integrated circuit chip manufacturing enterprise in

mainland China. Its main business is to manufacture

integrated circuit chips for customers according to the

integrated circuit design of the customer or the third

party. The founder of the company is Dr. Rujing

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