In order to get rid of the monopoly of the United States in the field of science and technology, the European Union is prepared to spend huge sums of money to make the chip industry stronger. China has also realized its important role in promoting the chip process, and has written the third generation semiconductor industry into the Tenth Five-Year Plan. According to the latest news, China Electronics Equipment Sub-group has successfully realized the full-spectrum localization of ion implanters, including medium beam, large beam, high energy, special application and the third generation semiconductor plasma implanters, with a cumulative coverage of 28nm.
The breakthrough of domestic chips is also the most important point. Recently, the American chip giant Intel Corporation announced that it would acquire altera, a programmable logic chip manufacturer, for a total price of 65.438+0.67 billion US dollars, which also created Intel's largest sum record. The main purpose of this wave of chip industry mergers and acquisitions is that the chip industry is shifting from traditional PC to mobile and Internet of Things. In addition, with the advent of the post-Moore's Law era, the research and development costs of chips are rising.
China consortium has also become a buyer of overseas chip companies. In order to improve the situation that China's chip consumption is heavily dependent on overseas imports and domestic chip manufacturers' innovation ability is insufficient, under the background of new policies such as the establishment of China's integrated circuit industry investment fund and financing platform, China chip enterprises have been accelerating the pace of acquiring overseas chip enterprises in recent years.
In addition to the M&A frenzy, the breakthrough of China chips also needs the cooperation of other chains. Compared with foreign chip industry, China's chip industry has various shortcomings from upstream equipment manufacturing to downstream system software and electronic products, and its industrial chain is weak, which has always been at a disadvantage in the global industrial chain competition. At present, the breakthrough of chips in China can rely not on the chip products themselves, but on the demand of chip supporting industries.