The results of the selection of the “Ten Years China Core” campaign organized nationwide by the China Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP) and China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch recently held in Tianjin 2010 China IC The Industry Promotion Conference revealed that 56 companies and 7 industrial parks from all over the country have won awards through repeated consideration and comprehensive selection by the expert review committee. Among the design awards, 11 companies including HiSilicon, Datang Microelectronics, Spreadtrum, and Rockchip were awarded the "Ten Years of China Core" leading design enterprise award, Shenzhen Core Sea Technology, National Technology, Silan Micro, and Ankai. 19 well-known enterprises such as Actions and Actions won the "Ten Years of China Core" Excellent Design Enterprise Award.

As the tenth anniversary of the 18th document (“Several Policies to Encourage the Development of the Software Industry and the Integrated Circuit Industry”), it is also the year for the National Twelfth Five-Year Plan and the year 2010 for the Chinese integrated circuit industry. In the landmark year, the "Ten Years of China Core" award has a deeper meaning. Taking a look at this "Ten Years of China Core" award-winning company, many companies including the core of the sea science and technology are within ten years from the establishment, difficult start to gradually grow into an industry-led enterprise, and become a force for the development of China's electronics industry. For ten years, the long history is a drop in the ocean, and for the Chinese integrated circuit industry, it is undoubtedly an extremely crucial golden decade.

From the seven-year “core road”, dozens of award-winning companies in the decade of gold are called the elites of China's integrated circuit industry. Each company has similar but different growth and success stories. Their growth is integrated in China. Microcosm of circuit industry development. Shenzhen Zhenhai Technology may be considered one of the typical models - the company was established in 2003 after the issuance of document No. 18. Benefited from the Chinese government's policy support to encourage the development of the integrated circuit industry, it has been growing for seven years to become a leading high-performance domestic product. Analog and modular hybrid integrated circuit design solution provider; After winning the annual "China Core" Most Potential Award with the domestic leading high-precision sigma-delta ADC chip CS1242 in 2007, it has won more in three years. With the "Ten Years of China Core" Excellent Design Enterprise Award, the core of science and technology along the way has been accompanied by the development of China's integrated circuit industry and continuous progress; from an integrated circuit industry obscure recruits to become the leading company in the domestic ADC technology, technology continues to improve , High-precision 24-bit ADC chip CS1242 fills the gap in the domestic high-end electronic weighing device chip field, energy measurement chip CSE7752 fills the gap of the domestic digital-analog hybrid three-phase energy metering chip......

Photo: Lu Guojian, the president of the company's core technology, receives the "Ten Years of China Core" Award for Outstanding Design Enterprise.

The ten years of the development of China's integrated circuit industry was also a decade of rapid development of China's electronic information industry. Local integrated circuit design companies have contributed. Whether it is communication terminals, portable entertainment devices, home electronics products, almost all can see the "China Core" figure, China's integrated circuit design companies in a number of areas to break the monopoly of the international semiconductor giants of the game rules. Take the widely used ADC as an example. In the past almost European and American manufacturers such as ADI, TI, and Cirrus Logic took the hegemony. A few years ago, the electronic weighing industry relied on more than 70 imported high-end ICs into bipolar and tri-integrated circuits. The high-precision 24-bit ADC chip launched by Hi-Tech broke the monopoly of foreign chips in the field for a long time. The cost of the chip scheme rapidly reduced, and more and more products used the “China Core”. The CSU11xx series SoC solutions with integrated high-performance ADC introduced at the beginning of 2010 achieve full-scale advantages in high integration, low power consumption, low cost, and high performance. The solution optimized for the entire enterprise has effectively helped China's weighing enterprise to increase its global competitiveness. Since the beginning of its establishment, the company has developed a single product with a lack of industry competitiveness and has developed an 8 to 32-bit microcontroller. , SoC, high-precision ADC three pillar products, widely used in weighing, Internet of things (such as smart grid, smart home, etc.), medical electronics, new energy and many other fields, more than 1,000 application companies. In fact, in the past ten years, excellent local Chinese integrated circuit design companies gradually got rid of the negative impressions of low-end products and reverse engineering. The product categories are constantly enriched and the product types extend from the low-end to the mid-high end. Many Chinese independent brands have emerged in high-end chips such as processors, computers and network chips, and information security chips.

Seize the Opportunity, Achieve the Future “Platinum” Ten years at the “Ten Years China Core” award ceremony, CSIP director Dr. Qiu Shanqin pointed out that the next decade will be a critical period for the development of China's integrated circuit industry from big to strong, and proposes to jointly build China's integrated circuit industry has developed a new round of climax for the "Platinum Decade". How to achieve the future of platinum for ten years?

The next decade will remain an opportunity for the development of China's IC design companies. First, the Chinese market continues to maintain strong growth momentum, accounting for almost half of the global IC market (45% of the global market in 2009); secondly, IC consumption is The computer and consumer electronics market has a tendency to change. Compared with the closed computer IC market in China's domestic IC companies, the IC market for consumer electronics products is more space and more suitable for Chinese IC companies. China is a big manufacturing country and a big consumer of electronic products. At the same time, the fast time to market of consumer electronics products, low cost, and good user experience are the keys to success in market competition. They have a deeper understanding of the market, more keen understanding of user needs, and closer proximity to users. Customer service will make China's local integrated circuit companies more advantaged and advantageous. The success stories of dozens of "Ten Years of China Core" award-winning companies, including Core Technology, are examples.

"Seven strategic and emerging industries such as the development of a new generation of information technology, energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy, biology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, and new energy vehicles are being actively and orderly" written in "The CPC Central Committee's Formulation of National Economy and Social Development." The Twelfth Five-Year Plan's Recommendations, and these seven strategic emerging industries are all more or less integrated with integrated circuits. Behind every major industrial development is the opportunity for local companies to develop rapidly. Strengthening technology accumulation and seizing the opportunity for industrial development at an appropriate time will make industrial distribution the key to the success of China's IC companies and their global competitors. Based on ADC's core technology with independent intellectual property rights, Xinhai Technology began to actively lay out related industries a few years ago. Two years after the establishment of the company, it launched a high-precision single-phase active power metering chip CSE7755, followed by a high-precision single-phase active power metering chip CSE7755B, three-phase energy metering chip CSE7752, in line with the new standards of the State Grid CSE7780, this series The energy metering scheme has laid a solid foundation for entering the huge smart grid market. As a leading supplier of weighing instruments, the company has been paying attention to the research and development of related cutting-edge technologies. At the beginning of 2010, it was the first company to introduce a low-power solar weighing instrument and achieved mass production, leading the low-carbon technology trend of household appliances. In addition, the company also targets high-precision ADCs, SoCs, and MCUs in hot applications such as the Internet of Things (smart home, smart grid), medical electronics, and new energy, and has formed a certain customer and market base.

From the decade of gold to the decade of platinum, talent is the key. Similar to many domestic leading integrated circuit companies, the core of science and technology of high-quality personnel in the core of science and technology as the top priority for the development of enterprises, at the beginning of the establishment of the formation of the elite including the Silicon Valley and domestic experts engaged in integrated circuit design for many years The high-quality design R&D team ensures the leading position of the product in terms of technology and quality and complete independent intellectual property rights. In recent years, the rapid development of the company's business has attracted a large number of outstanding talents. In addition, the company also strengthened its extensive joint technological research with the industry and established the “Core-Science-Shenzhen SoC Joint R&D Laboratory” with Shenzhen University’s SoC Key Laboratory of Peking University to strengthen all-round scientific research/development cooperation. , And with a number of well-known electric meters and medical equipment整机enterprises for product joint development and technical cooperation.

[About "China Core" and "Ten Years China Core" Awards]

The “China Core” activity hosted by China Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP) of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has been successfully held for five times since its launch. It has received strong support from domestic integrated circuit companies, industry experts, and upstream and downstream manufacturers in the industrial chain. stand by. The honor of “China Core” has been widely accepted by the industry. It has not only greatly enhanced the company’s visibility and influence, but also evolved into a bridge for promoting effective communication and cooperation in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. In 2010, it was the tenth year that was promulgated as Document 18 (“Several Policies to Encourage the Development of the Software Industry and Integrated Circuit Industry”), and it was also the year of the National Twelfth Five-Year Plan to hold the “Ten Years of China Core”. The award appraisal activities are even more profound, aiming to honor the advanced enterprises and parks that have been dedicated to the promotion and development of China's integrated circuit industry for 10 years. They have rich connotations that reflect the achievements of industrial development, show the growth trajectory of enterprises, and reflect the changes in policy environment and regional patterns. This is a high-level summary of the development history of China's integrated circuit industry in the past decade.