China is three big chip factories to expand capacity will surpass foreign giants

Source：Updated：2018-01-24 07:54:41

In the past few years, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted the development of the domestic semiconductor industry and realized the localization of more chips.

In addition to a large number of semiconductor design companies, China's chip foundries are also expanding capacity and building a path under pressure from the giants.
China's three big chip factories to expand capacity: will surpass foreign giants?
The semiconductor market is divided into two categories: design and OEM. Today almost all the design of the company are no chip manufacturing production lines, but is delegated to TSMC, samsung semiconductor division, such as contract, the contract every year large sums of money to develop the latest technology, the construction of the new production line.

According to the Taiwan electronic times website, there are three major semiconductor manufacturers in China, including smic international, hua hong semiconductor and hua li micro electronics co., LTD. The three companies are now expanding their chip manufacturing capabilities.

The Chinese government has set ambitious targets for the development of the semiconductor industry. In 2016, only 26.2 percent of the country's chips will be produced, and by 2025, the country's production rate will increase to 70 percent. This means that domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity will also increase.

In semiconductor manufacturing, China's companies are lagging behind. It is reported, TSMC, Romania, tsu electric companies such as building factories in mainland China, is now in the construction of "12-inch wafer fab" (fab processed wafers to 12 inches in diameter, the greater the wafer area, production efficiency is higher).

It is reported that due to the temporary backward in chip manufacturing technology, the mainland domestic foundries mainly aimed at the markets such as automotive electronic chip, the chip does not need the most advanced manufacturing technology.

According to Taiwan's electronic times research, the increase in production capacity of the three chip foundries in mainland China will depend largely on the domestic chip market.

In the global semiconductor foundry market, Taiwan's TSMC is occupied half of the big MAC, TSMC is the most important apple chip foundries, and accounted for in the apple orders in recent years more and more high, the proportion of the samsung electronics has formed a huge pressure.

As line width in semiconductor manufacturing process, the number of "nano" become the most important measure, line width is smaller, integrate the more the number of transistors per unit area, the stronger processing performance, power consumption is lower. TSMC recently announced that it will build the world's first 3 nano-chip manufacturing plant, with plans to start production by 2020.

TSMC and samsung electronics have already used 10 nanometer technology to produce chips.

It is not clear how many nano-manufacturing processes are currently available in China's semiconductor factories. Last year, it was reported that smic will use 14 nanometer technology to make chips in 2019.

Semiconductor design company in mainland China, the industry body late last year, according to statistics, China already has nearly 1400 chip design companies, total revenue will reach $30 billion last year.

In some low-end smartphones, Chinese manufacturers are experimenting with processors from mainland design companies. But the mainstream processors still come from qualcomm and mediatek.