Beijing to build integrated circuit faucet into the 3.0 era

"Up to the high-speed rail, rockets, aircraft carriers and large aircraft, down to the smart toilet cover, the elderly hearing aids are inseparable from the chip ..." "But such a small chip, China has more than 80% need to rely on imports ... "Our country's annual imports of integrated circuits have remained at $220 billion, surpassing oil..." As long as you simply search on the website, you can see such a large amount of information. Under the intensive publicity of various media, the importance of the chip has been well known to the public, and the development of the chip industry is also recognized by the society.

However, it is not so easy to cultivate the chip industry and strengthen the integrated circuit. Although the country has invested hundreds of billions of dollars, there are dozens of industrial parks related to the chip industry. “Developing the chip industry is a systematic project. Every step from design to manufacturing to packaging and testing has different needs. Only by precisely positioning and tailoring suitable service solutions for enterprises can we better serve enterprises and cultivate Industry development." Miao Jun, chairman of Zhongguancun IC Design Park, pointed out in an interview. This is the core idea of ​​Beijing's development of chip industry planning, "North Design, South Manufacturing, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development." Fine and professional, professional development.

Upgrade the IC industry, Beijing launched the "core enterprise" strategy

Although the chip is small, it carries the dream of technological innovation. Integrated circuits are the cornerstone of the information industry and are related to the country's information security industry. They are a comprehensive manifestation of the country's high-end manufacturing capabilities, and are a must for countries in science and technology competition. In this regard, General Secretary Xi emphasized that the core technology is the country's heavy weapon, and the key technologies must be based on independent innovation and self-reliance. Facing the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the state will raise the integrated circuit industry to the national strategic level, and introduce relevant policies, set up industrial special investment funds, and comprehensively promote industrial innovation.

As one of the four major gathering areas of China's integrated circuit industry, Beijing has formed a relatively stable industrial base. In the past ten years, the average annual growth rate of Beijing's IC industry has reached 16.1%; in 2016, the total revenue of Beijing integrated circuit enterprises (including the income of overseas M&A enterprises) reached 75 billion yuan, accounting for one-sixth of the country's total; Mobile communication terminals, semiconductor memory, image sensors and other fields cover a wide range; at the same time, a group of professional investment institutions and associations have gathered, and Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other research institutes can provide continuous technical and talent support. These favorable factors provide a relatively complete industrial ecology for the development of Beijing's integrated circuit industry.

In this regard, the Director of the Electronic Information Office of the Beijing Economic and Information Commission, Mr. Gu Wei, said that integrated circuits, as a national strategic emerging industry, are an important foundation for national economic and social informationization. The introduction of the National Integrated Circuit Industry Development Promotion Outline and China Manufacturing 2025 has injected a strong impetus into the leap-forward development of China's IC industry. China's IC industry is facing unprecedented opportunities for development. In view of the next development in the future, Beijing has proposed to further increase support in terms of funds, talents, and various types of resources, focus on key resources, and implement a breakthrough strategy of “core enterprises – key areas – key products” to promote the industry. The overall improvement has made the Beijing IC industry an important pillar industry for carrying national strategies and building a national science and technology innovation center.

Focus on specialization, the industrial park enters the 3.0 era

However, how to achieve the breakthrough of "core enterprise - key areas - key products"? There are huge challenges in this.

“It’s really complicated to make a chip. It’s highly creative. Often an Idea is worth a million dollars. But to realize this Idea, maybe it’s not enough money to spend it. This is why So many chip companies are moving to Asia and China, and the R&D center is still firmly established in Silicon Valley.” This is an insight expressed by an IC design engineer when communicating with reporters. It vividly shows a real problem, that is, the development of the chip industry is a very systematic project, which requires a sound capital chain, an innovation chain and an industrial chain to be completed, and the three chains must be highly coordinated.

“If you want to complete this task, you need to have an appropriate execution platform. Although China has planned a large number of technology industrial parks before, the industrial parks related to the chip industry are roughly counted as dozens of them. However, it can really implement three. Chain integration is rarely difficult.” Some experts said, “Specialized division of labor is the only way for industrial development. In the future, industrial parks will also develop in a refined direction, focusing on the core direction to form their own core competition. At that time, the industrial park may enter the 3.0 era."

In fact, as an important carrier for attracting investment and cultivating the industry, China's industrial parks have experienced many stages of development, from the initial industrial park with single function to the upgrade of functions in the later period, and the high-tech park integrating technology R&D and business office. China's industrial parks have been changing with the development of the carrying industry. However, in the process of cultivating and developing the integrated circuit industry, the operation mode of the traditional industrial park shows that it is not enough.

"The chip industry has its particularity. Its industrial chain is highly subdivided, from design to manufacturing to packaging and testing to system applications. Each link has its own needs, and each link is subdivided into different fields. With Moore's Law moving forward to the physical limit, each segment needs cooperation between upstream and downstream, which requires a high degree of cooperation between funds, technology, talents, and policies. This requires operators who provide industrial services to be very professional, otherwise Can not effectively meet the needs of enterprises." Zhongguancun IC Design Park related person in charge told reporters.

In view of this feature of integrated circuits, Beijing has planned the overall development strategy of “North Design, South Manufacturing, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development”, including the integrated circuit design base in Haidian, the manufacturing base in Yizhuang in the south, and Hebei. Positive packaging test industry base. The plan fully reflects the development concept of professionally promoting the integrated circuit industry.

The pattern of large industrial chain needs to be led by design

In the complete industrial chain of the upstream and downstream of integrated circuits, integrated circuit design is the forerunner of the industry, its role is extremely important, and it is also the most innovative and challenging part of the entire industrial chain. In 2016, China's chip design industry achieved sales revenue of 164.43 billion yuan, and benefited from the increase in the number of orders, the chip manufacturing industry and the packaging and testing industry both achieved sales revenue of 100 billion yuan, respectively, 112.69 billion yuan and 156.43 billion yuan, an increase year-on-year. 25.1% and 13%.

As a key project for Beijing to implement the national integrated circuit industry development strategy, Zhongguancun IC Design Park has positioned its development direction on IC design. "The park is also firmly grasping the leading-design in the integrated circuit industry chain (design, manufacture, packaging and testing), and using this as a guide to develop basic software and complete machines for related industries such as the Internet of Things, mobile Internet, and medical electronics. , system design, integration services and other high-end links to expand, forming a 'IC design - software - machine - system - application services' large industrial chain development pattern. Therefore, Zhongguancun IC Design Park in the formation of the entire large industrial chain, also To the leading role." Miao Jun, chairman of Zhongguancun IC Design Park Co., Ltd. said.

The development idea of ​​Zhongguancun IC Design Park, accurate position and professional development is also a useful exploration for the development of the industrial park 3.0 era, and it has also been recognized by IC design companies. It is reported that a number of IC design companies, such as Zhaoxin, Yixin Technology, etc., have taken the lead in signing a contract with the park.

In order to better serve the industry, Zhongguancun IC Design Park has launched the "IC Partner" program. Different from the traditional park investment, the "IC Partner" program takes "mutual benefit and win-win" as the guiding ideology, "cooperation" instead of "investment", with IC design enterprise as the core, and expands upstream and downstream, for all the cooperation in the park. Partners build a green and healthy survival and development platform. “We will not only organize activities such as “school-enterprise docking” and “going into the campus” to solve the talent problems that are most plaguing IC design companies, but also create an incubation platform, provide financing services, and solve common financial problems. We are putting forward the operation and introducing funds, talents, technology and partners for the park enterprises. We hope that all park enterprises can enter the barrier-free cooperation relationship under the partnership system.” Li Meng, the investment director of Zhongguancun IC Design Park, said.

With the entry of a group of chip design leading enterprises, driven by the demonstration effect, more related enterprises will settle in and form an industrial park integrated circuit resource group. The R&D and industrialization capabilities of enterprises entering the park can be fed back to the development of the integrated circuit industry chain, thus forming a benign development of the industry. This is also the original intention of the establishment of Zhongguancun IC Design Park.