Ten major news events in the electronic industry in 2017
发布时间：2019/10/15
The year 2017 is the year of the ups and downs in the electronics industry, and also a year of success. Looking back on this year, enterprises have surged and scrambled for their layout; the national policy has been launched to promote development. But no matter how, the electronics industry still is like the summer sunshine, shining bright. At the same time, in this brilliant year, the electronics industry has also had many important events, which, to a certain extent, has affected the trend of the electronics industry and promoted the development of the electronic industry. At the end of this year, Xiao Bian also carefully introduced the electronics industry in 2017 ten major news events, to readers.
1. 4 national standard publicity of integrated circuits
In January 16th, the Ministry of industry and information published 4 national standards in the field of integrated circuits, mainly focused on memory testing. Meanwhile, the national memory base project with a total investment of 24 billion dollars has been officially launched in East Lake high tech Zone, Wuhan, and SMIC 40nm ReRAM high-end memory chip has also been released. It is understood that after the completion of the project in 2020, the annual output value will exceed 10 billion dollars, so as to achieve the "zero" breakthrough in the development of IC chip industry in China.
Ten major news events in the electronics industry in 2017
In addition, in order to get rid of the passive situation in the electronics industry in the country, "heteronomy" "National IC industry to promote the development of" outline of the policy also put forward the target to 2020 China’s semiconductor industry growth rate will reach at least 20%. At the same time, China made 2025 made it clear that the rate of China’s chip self-sufficiency in 2020 will reach 40% and the target of 50% in 2025.
Comments: the national policy has always been the light and benchmarking of the industry development, and how to better apply the national policy is also a problem faced by various enterprises. With the continuous development of 5G, artificial intelligence, Internet of things and automatic driving technology, China’s domestic chip enterprises will also have a turning point. On the one hand, the demand for chips in the global electronics industry is increasing. On the other hand, Moore’s law is slowing down, and China is expected to catch up with the world’s advanced enterprises.
Two. Qualcomm was prosecuted by the United States Federal Trade Commission and apple.
In January 17th, the United States Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against the Qualcomm Corp on the same day, accusing Qualcomm to take improper means to maintain the monopoly of its semiconductor equipment. A few days later, the Apple Corp also launched a lawsuit against Qualcomm for $1 billion in patent fees.
According to the lawsuit brought to the federal court of California, Qualcomm has been accused of using the status of the main suppliers of its own handset processor to make cumbersome provisions to the mobile phone manufacturers. If the customer accepts the priority patent license clause of Qualcomm, it will sell the processor to it, while the mobile phone manufacturer will pay the high licensing fee to Qualcomm if he uses other brand chips. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission also charged that from 2011 to 2012, Qualcomm provided hundreds of millions of rebates as an exchange condition, and it was unfair competition as the sole chip supplier of iPhone and iPad.
Apple, in the southern California court, accuses Qualcomm for selling chips over high prices and refusing to pay a $1 billion refund on its promise. Apple had talked with KFTC, an anti trust agency, and apple thought that Qualcomm’s slow refund is also from this point.
Comment: the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Qualcomm comes from the antitrust investigation, while Apple has launched a lawsuit to Qualcomm. The amount of claim is not the key. The key is that the court’s judgement will become an industry example with demonstration effect. If we can take this opportunity to make some adjustments to the payment mechanism of the patent, it is a good thing for the whole mobile phone industry.
Three. Grosfontae invested hundreds of billions of factories in China
In February 10th, grosfontae, the world’s second largest manufacturer of wafer generation chips, announced that it would set up $100 billion in the 12 inch wafer factory in Chengdu, China.
Ten major news events in the electronics industry in 2017
Photo source: glifang official website
Globalfoundries CEO Sanjay said: "Chinese is the world’s largest semiconductor market and the fastest growing in Sichuan, and the development of the integrated circuit industry stronger, talent, experience, wafer factories here set up the world’s largest investment in technology, the most advanced level is a very wise choice."
Comment: from the point of view of the operation of glorfontae in recent years, it seems that its factory in China is somewhat forced. And from a number of Chongqing city to see the situation, the price of gold Globalfoundries on worth assessment, and the implementation of commercial production in Globalfoundries 14nm process, AMD process of the latest Zen chip architecture case, only in 2018 will still choose 22nm SOI technology into Chinese, to put into operation 2019. This Chinese for the current market, Globalfoundries investment is more like a bet, after all, SMIC, Huali micro firm such as strength is not behind the globalfoundries.
Four. South Korea’s investment 415 million drives the system semiconductor program to focus on three areas
In April 1st, in order to enhance the competitiveness of system semiconductors, the industry, academia and academia of Korea jointly invested 464 billion 500 million won (US $415 million) in the business and technology sectors to develop new technologies and foster relevant professionals and enhance the competitiveness of Korean semiconductor. The investment mainly focuses on three areas: low power (low energy), ultra light weight (ultra light), ultra high speed (ultra-high speed), and related materials and processes.
Ten major news events in the electronics industry in 2017
It is understood that the Korean government and private enterprises will first invest 221 billion won first to develop low energy.
