In recent years, the global semiconductor industry of the transfer of the tendency, China has become the first choice of many multinational company investment land, labor and talent cost advantage and good policy environment is one of the factors that attract international investment, China's huge market demand is also affect investment of another important factor. Meanwhile, China vigorously develop high technology industrial macro guidance, integrated circuit industry as the representative of the high technology to become the focus of cities and provinces planning and development direction.

From all over recent years of IC industry layout perspective, in recent years the Midwest constantly improve the investment environment, and the eastern coastal area semiconductor manufacturing costs continue to rise, xian, chengdu, chongqing, wuhan, provinces and cities are becoming the integrated circuit investment new focus, but the key is relatively concentrated investment in assembly and test services industry and chip manufacturing. However, whether from the development of the integrated circuit industry rules or as soon as possible from the promotion of China's integrated circuit industry the ability of independent innovation from the point of view of the consideration, the design industry should become the provinces and cities of the integrated circuit industry the focus of the planning, development, outstanding priority to the development of an important position.

The design industry leading out of the financial crisis

From the current global integrated circuit industry environment to see, in 2006 the global semiconductor industry began a slow recovery, but in 2007 years into lows again, that year industry scale growth was only 3.2%. People had expected 2008 global semiconductor industry will appear to rise, but from the global financial crisis erupts suddenly, and in 2008 the global semiconductor industry not only not as expected increasing, but appear for first time since 2001 fall. According to SIA data released by the global semiconductor market in the first half of 95.927 billion us dollars, up 24.8% decline.

In the 2009 years, from integrated circuit the whole, industry scale compared with 2008 still in decline, but from the second quarter began, each segment of the industrial chain link recovery is strong, as its integrated circuit industry leading IC design impetus function cannot small gaze. In Taiwan, for example, is expected to work according to the analysis of overall design will achieve 7% of positive growth, its value of more than 400 billion new Taiwan dollars and more than wafer foundries for the first time, and will drive the manufacturing, packaging, testing and other links in the second half of 2009 bottom out gradually.

According to Chinese semiconductor industry association, China's integrated circuit in the first half of 2009 the industry sales income more than 20% year-on-year drop. Two of the income of the quarterly sales decline further quarter of scope and narrow, annulus is a substantial growth shows that domestic integrated circuit industry is gradually went out of whack. And manufacturing and sealing of the industry fell sharply different, the first half of IC design industry sales income compared with the same period last year rose by nearly 10%, fully embodies the IC design to the integrated circuit industry recovery of pulling.

IC industrial integration to speed up the adjustment

By state to encourage the development of the integrated circuit industry situation drive, provinces and cities in recent years, rapid growth of investment in the integrated circuit industry, on the one hand, because chip manufacturing and assembly and test services output value of size, for leading to regional GDP growth has an important meaning, and on the other hand, consider human, resources, and other domestic cost is low, chip manufacturing and package for cost control to demand higher industrial links of the transfer of the speed to domestic faster, and thus present a integrated circuit to chip manufacturing and investment links such as encapsulation testing on the situation. With the above two links in the steady accumulation of domestic investment, at present the face growing competition, integration of urgent needs adjustment. At present domestic chip manufacturer engaged in Foundry business for the basic of enterprise, business similar led to competition is so fierce, especially with from TSMC, LianDian Foundry of global market leading enterprise competition in the industrial development of the troughs enterprise competition between more outstanding.

In this situation, the domestic integrated circuit industry integration acceleration, the 2008 domestic main 6 inch chip foundry enterprise ningbo, declared bankruptcy in d product body, and will sell to production line byd microelectronics, becoming the first domestic bankruptcy chip manufacturing enterprise; Shanghai BeiLing positive IC design to the transformation of company, hongli semiconductor and HuaHong NEC and smic consult with the enterprise integration issues. These actions are to chip manufacturing that as a representative of the domestic integrated circuit industry experience in high speed development is the turn capital after, restructuring of the integration of resources period. Therefore, conform to the development of the industrial integration needs, and actively vigorously layout design of provinces and cities is adjust the industrial structure, develop the integrated circuit industry opportunities.

The design industry should be a key industry layout

Integrated circuit industry as a typical modern industry, with prominent large-scale, high speed development characteristics, which is across the area industrial development and industrial upgrading the effective way. And the current situation, to layout, actively planning the design industry, promote integrated circuit industry bigger and stronger focus.

On one hand, vigorously develop the design industry is to alleviate the basic way of the contradiction between supply and demand. Domestic integrated circuit of the prominent contradiction between supply and demand of the integrated circuit industry has been the main challenge facing: from the market demand to see, in 2008 China has grown into the world's largest IC market, its sales close to 40% of the global market, and from industry supply to see, in 2008 China integrated circuit output value is only about 20% of the market demand, most of the products rely on imports to supply.

Integrated circuit industry from each link to see, IC design more close to the market and understand market demand, can effectively through the innovation develop high value-added products, and directly promote the upgrading of the electronic system; At the same time, IC design of integrated circuit industry as the "leading", its innovative technology, equipment for the technology progress raised taller requirement, drive the semiconductor equipment update and new investment, for the whole of the integrated circuit industry growth injected new power and energy, improve the supply capacity of the integrated circuit industry, and overall ease the contradiction between supply and demand.

On the other hand, vigorously develop the design industry is an important means of improving technical strength. Integrated circuit technology as the intensive high-tech industry, independent intellectual property rights is the core of the market competition of the elements. And the design industry as a leading part of the integrated circuit industry, and, process, packaging, and testing a close working procedure, the innovation and progress is the source of the whole industry progress and power, is to promote the industry technology force the important means.

The design industry development, to insist on technology research and development and market development, and the combination of actively seize the opportunity of market demand, increase the new product development efforts, concentrate on key development of domestic demand a lot of IC chip, CPU, DSP and DTV, DVD and mobile communications market hot products integrated circuits, and improve the ability to develop independently. At the same time, we must attach importance to SOC technology and IP core of development, from the system to the integrated circuit design, from chip production to the machine manufacturing, to form a set with independent intellectual property rights of a new generation of technology and products.

Finally, vigorously develop the design industry is to promote industrial upgrading the main power. Although China's integrated circuit industry has 40 years of development history, but the industry is still in its early stages, especially IC design product technical level to improve the content of science and technology, largely on the industry that the continuous and healthy development, on the one hand, chip manufacturing and assembly and test services and other links due to a lack of matching IC design products relied on overseas orders, difficult to form the independent development of strong support, on the other hand because IC design strength lag, electronic machine for production of IC products it hard to realize local supply, not only will the huge market potential in one hand, also must rely on overseas enterprise supply control. Therefore, to strengthen the investment in development, make full use of domestic human resources cost advantages, vigorously develop IC design, form with independent intellectual property rights of the IC products, should be provinces and cities of the integrated circuit industry the main power upgrade.

The development of comprehensive advanced region experience, just depend on wafer foundry, as a representative of the chip manufacturing is difficult to realize China's integrated circuit industry strategic objectives, we must speed up the government at all levels to IC design layout and devotion, make its continuous development progress, attain the level of and position, and then from small to large, gradually training their own brands, so as to realize the integrated circuit industry in China's long-term goal.