The 2018 Taihu Creation "Core" Summit - Wuxi Integrated Circuit Design Industry Development Forum was held in Binhu District, Wuxi City last month. This is the first time that the "Southern Microelectronics Base" in Wuxi has held a special forum for integrated circuit design.

2018 Taihu Creation "Core" Summit - Wuxi Integrated Circuit Design Industry Development Forum was held in Binhu District, Wuxi City last month. This is the first time that the "Southern Microelectronics Base" in Wuxi has held a special forum for integrated circuit design. The core of

is the courage and responsibility to focus on integrated circuit design and lead the new generation of information technology revolution. Xu Feng, secretary of the Binhu District Party Committee, said: "Integrated circuit design is the 'crown jewel' and the biggest shortcoming of 'China core'. We are willing to shoulder this responsibility and let Taihu landscapes celebrate the legend of China's 'core' for a long time!"

has been persistent for 30 years.

has created the "China core"

. Zhongke Xin, located in . After the 12-inch wafer-level packaging line was officially opened last year, its independently designed on-site programmable door array chip was successfully developed recently, and will provide a technologically advanced, independent and controllable key core chip for the development of emerging industries such as the Internet of Things and big data in my country.

For the China integrated circuit industry, Binhu District where Zhongke Xin is located is an important landmark. As early as the 1980s, Huajing Group, known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of China's integrated circuits, was located in Binhu. The first super-large-scale integrated circuit in the country was born here; the 58th Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Co., Ltd., the earliest professional integrated circuit research institute established in China, is also located in Binhu. Today, a large number of industry leaders like Zhongke Xin are still active in this land, carrying the banner of China's integrated circuit industry development.

has been sticking to the "Chinese core" for 30 years. Binhu and the integrated circuit industry have accumulated deep feelings that are difficult to let go and have a deep industrial foundation. According to Zheng Tianyu, director of the Binhu District Economic and Information Bureau, Binhu District has gathered more than 40 integrated circuit design-related companies, and has nurtured a number of industry-leading companies such as Zhongke Xin, Zhuosheng Microelectronics, and Airuixin Electronics. This year, the scale of the integrated circuit industry in the district has grown rapidly. As of the end of May, 21 integrated circuit enterprises in the district have achieved industrial output value of 1.83 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.6%. Among them, the operating income of the high-performance integrated circuit design industry was 1.73 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of as much as 37.9%.

faces shortcomings,

focuses on design and creates "core"

integrated circuits are the cornerstone of the information industry, and chip design, due to its intellectual and capital-intensive characteristics, is recognized as the "jewel in the crown" of integrated circuits.

Because the innovation, R&D and design capabilities of chips are significantly behind the world's leading level, China has become the world's largest chip importer, with imports reaching US$230 billion to US$260 billion per year. In Wuxi, the shortcomings in chip design are also obvious. Last year, of the city's integrated circuit industry's output value of 89.27 billion yuan, design accounts for only 10%, and there is a lack of leading enterprises. The shortcomings of the

industry are exactly the direction of Binhu's efforts. As early as 2009, Binhu District relied on Wuxi (National) Industrial Design Park and cooperated with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation to jointly build the Wuxi (National) Integrated Circuit Design Center, aiming at key technological breakthroughs and creating a design-centric integrated circuit industry chain.

Shixin Electronics is the first batch of enterprises to settle in the integrated circuit design center. Zhu Zhaohua, general manager of the company, said that this year, the world's most advanced 16-nanometer supercomputer chip independently developed by Shixin, mass production and shipment, artificial intelligence chips have achieved major breakthroughs, and have successively won large orders from world-renowned AI companies, becoming a strong growth engine for the company after consumer electronics and Bitcoin mining machines.

At present, Wuxi (National) Integrated Circuit Design Center has formed an industrial development system with relatively concentrated design enterprises, relatively sound supporting functions, and initially gathering of talents. Its main products cover multiple fields such as information security, digital home appliances, audio and video processing and multimedia applications. The design capabilities of some products reach the world's advanced level of 16 nanometers. Among them, Zhongke Xin undertakes three major national "nuclear high-tech" projects, and is one of the enterprises in China that undertakes the most major projects.

policy support,

first-class enterprise Jinyueyuanlai

At this Taihu Creation "Core" Summit, Binhu District announced that it will set up a 2 billion yuan integrated circuit design industry development fund to support the development of the integrated circuit design industry in a comprehensive and complete series in the form of "recruitment, investment, support".

Fan Xiaojun, deputy mayor of Binhu District, introduced that since this year, Binhu District has grasped the pulse of high-quality development, focused on integrated circuit design, formulated and issued the "Binhu District Integrated Circuit Design Industry Development Plan (2018-2025)", adjusting and improving the industrial support policy system in terms of project launch, equity investment, carrier support, land supply and subsidy, and talent introduction, and guiding all parties to gather in Binhu.

In the Liyuan development zone where integrated circuit design enterprises gathered, it has built a "full life cycle" service system for enterprises from implementation to project construction, production and operation, and support for enterprises. Under the careful incubation of all levels and departments, Zhuosheng Microelectronics from the Wuxi Institute of Applied Technology of Tsinghua University successfully developed GPSLNA smart chips with independent core technologies, becoming a supplier of well-known domestic and foreign mobile phone brands such as Samsung, Xiaomi , vivo, Huawei , etc. Last year, more than 100 employees of Zhuosheng generated sales of 700 million yuan and profits of 200 million yuan, with an average profit of up to 2 million yuan.

Ecology and technology, Binhu’s two business cards are leading first-class integrated circuit companies at home and abroad. During the Taihu Chuang "Core" summit, 15 integrated circuit projects including Shenwei AI, Zhongke Chuang Chip, GNSS satellite navigation chips, etc. were collectively signed and settled in Binhu District, with a total investment of nearly 2 billion yuan. Lei Guilin, director of the Micro Application Innovation Center of Shenzhen Zhigao Military-Civilian Integrated Equipment Technology Research Institute, said that during the project site selection, they had visited many first-tier cities in China. It was the good foundation of the integrated circuit industry and a livable and business-friendly environment that made Wuxi Binhu stand out. "Binhu has an ecological environment that is most suitable for the integrated circuit design industry. We hope to witness the rise of 'China Chip' here."