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

From all around the recent IC industry layout to see, in recent years the Midwest regional investment environment improvement, as well as the eastern coastal areas semiconductor manufacturing cost rising, xian, chengdu, chongqing, wuhan, the provinces and cities are becoming integrated circuit investment new hot spots, but the focus of investment is concentrated in the package test industry and chip manufacturing. However, whether from the integrated circuit industry development rule or as soon as possible from the promotion of China's integrated circuit industry the ability of independent innovation from the Angle of consideration, the design industry should become the provinces of the integrated circuit industry planning, the focus of the priority development, outstanding development 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 after 2007, when once again into the trough industry scale growth rate is only 3.2%. People expected in 2008 the global semiconductor industry will appear picks up, but as a result of the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, the global semiconductor industry not only not as expected that growth, but appeared for the first time since 2001, down. According to the 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 the integrated circuit the whole, industry scale compared with 2008 still in decline, but in the second quarter began, industrial chain link each segment of the powerful momentum of recovery, which as the integrated circuit industry leading IC design industry promotes cannot small gaze. In Taiwan, for example, according to the research work in the whole year of 2009 yuan, is expected to design will achieve 7% of positive growth, its value will be more than 400 billion new Taiwan dollars for the first time more than wafer generation industry, and will drive the manufacturing, packaging, testing and other links in the second half of 2009 bottom out gradually.

According to China's semiconductor industry association statistics, in 2009 the first half of China's integrated circuit industry all sales fell more than 20% year-on-year. The second quarter sales revenue decline amplitude and quarter further narrow, link is substantial growth shows that domestic integrated circuit industry is gradually went out of whack. And manufacturing and packaging and testing industry fell sharply different, IC design industry in the first half of the sales income compared with the same period last year growth of nearly 10%, fully embodies the IC design industry to the integrated circuit industry recovery pull.

IC industry to speed up the integration of adjustment

By the state to encourage development of the integrated circuit industry situation driven, and the provinces and cities in recent years, the integrated circuit industry, on the one hand, due to the rapid growth of investment in chip manufacturing and assembly and test of large scale, for leading to regional GDP growth has an important meaning, on the other hand, considering the domestic human resources, the cost is low, the chip manufacturing and packaging on the cost control requirements higher industrial links to the domestic transfer speed faster, and thus presents integrated circuit investment to chip manufacturing and packaging test link centralized situation. With the above two links in domestic investment in the continuous accumulation, at present the face the competition growing integration, the adjustment of the urgent demand. At present domestic chip manufacturers are engaged in basic Foundry business enterprise, business similar lead to competition is so fierce, especially by TSMC, such as electric global Foundry market leading enterprise in the fierce competition, the industrial development of the trough enterprise competition more outstanding.

In this situation, the domestic integrated circuit industry integration accelerating pace, 2008 domestic major 6 inches chip foundry enterprise - ningbo in d product body declare bankruptcy, and the production line sold to byd microelectronics, thus become the first bankrupt chip manufacturing enterprise; Shanghai BeiLing actively to IC design enterprise transformation, hongli semiconductor and huahong NEC and smic approach for integration of enterprises. These actions are illustrated by chip manufacturing as a representative of the domestic integrated circuit industry after rapid development after entering the activate assets, restructuring of the integration of resources period. Therefore, conform to the integration of industry development needs, and actively to layout design is all the provinces and adjust the industrial structure, vigorously develop integrated circuit industry opportunities.

Design should be a key industry layout

Integrated circuit industry as the typical modern industry, has the outstanding large-scale, high speed development characteristics, is the realization of regional industry spanning development and industrial upgrading of the effective way. And the current situation, to layout, actively planning design, is to promote the integrated circuit industry bigger and stronger focus on.

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

From the integrated circuit industry link to see, IC design industry is more close to the market and understand the market demand, can effectively through the innovation to develop high value-added products, direct driving the electronic system renewal; At the same time, IC design of the integrated circuit industry as the "leading", the continuous innovation as the process, equipment and technology progress puts forward higher requirements, drive the semiconductor equipment update and new investment, for the integrated circuit industry growth injected new power and vigor, largely promotes the integrated circuit industry supply capacity, 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 as a technology-intensive high-tech industry, independent intellectual property rights is the core of the market competition of the elements. And the design of the integrated circuit industry as the leading link, and, process, package, and testing of a complete set of process, the close relation of innovation and progress is the source of the whole industry progress and power, is to promote the industry an important means of technical force.

Design development, adhere to the technology development and market development, combining actively seize the market demand, increase the opportunity of new product development efforts, concentrate on key development of domestic demand of the IC chip, CPU, DSP and DTV, DVD and mobile communications market hot product integrated circuit, improve the independent development ability. 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 the chip production to the machine manufacturing, forming a set of independent intellectual property rights of a new generation of technology and products.

Finally, vigorously develop the design industry is the main power to promote industrial upgrading. Although China's integrated circuit industry has forty years of development history, but the industry is still in its early stage, especially the IC design product technical level and to improve the scientific and technological content, but this is largely hindered the sustainable and healthy development of industry, on the one hand, chip manufacturing and packaging test link due to lack of matching IC design product relied on overseas orders, difficult to form the independent development of the powerful support, on the other hand, because of IC design strength lag, electronic machine for production of IC products it is difficult to realize local supply, not only will the huge market potential in surrender, but 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 the IC design industry, form with independent intellectual property rights of the IC products, should be the integrated circuit industry upgrading and the main power.

The development of the region comprehensive advanced experience, only depend on wafer foundry as a representative of chip manufacturing is difficult to realize China's integrated circuit industry, we must speed up the strategic goals of the governments at all levels to IC design industry layout and input, make its development progress, attain the level of and position, and from small to large, gradually cultivate own brand in China, so as to realize the integrated circuit industry long-term goal.