Recently; China Chip” The nationwide discussion is still ongoing. Regarding this, Zeng Xuezhong, Global Executive Vice President of Tsinghua Unigroup and CEO of Tsinghua Unigroup Spreadtrum, stated that the next 10 years will be the era of artificial intelligence, where 5G and AI will experience explosive growth, and the driving force for technological change will also come from chips.
He emphasized that no matter how the economy develops in the next 10 years, chips will be indispensable& ldquo; If steel is the foundation of the industrial age, chips are the foundation of the digital age, and the entire semiconductor industry determines the future development direction of the world& rdquo;
According to the "2018 Q1 China Chip Industry Market Special Report" released by iMedia Consulting, the production of integrated circuits in China reached 156.46 billion yuan in 2017, an increase of 18.7% compared to 2016. With the strengthening of the country's attention to the chip industry and the increasing investment of research and development resources by enterprises, institutions and other institutions in the future, the production of integrated circuits in China will continue to show rapid growth in the future.
China is currently the world's largest and fastest-growing market, and in the 2017 global top ten chip design rankings, Chinese companies have already occupied two seats; Ziguang Spreadtrum and Huawei HiSilicon.
It is understood that from 2G, 3G to 4G and now to 5G, Ziguang Spreadtrum has always adhered to independent innovation. In 2018, Spreadtrum launched the SC9850KH chip platform, which is China's first domestically produced CPU chip to truly achieve commercial use, and also China's first 4G chip platform with independent intellectual property rights embedded with key CPU technologies. At the same time, Spreadtrum also launched its first 8-core artificial intelligence chip platform SC9863, lowering the threshold for mass consumers to enter 5G and AI.
Zeng Xuezhong said that chip design is the top of the entire chip industry, and its contribution to the industry is in a 1:10:100 ratio. A 1-yuan chip can leverage the industry's 100 yuan value, which is why chip design is important as the leader of the integrated circuit industry. The world is flat and parallel. In the future, the global semiconductor market should develop in parallel, with each other and the world interconnected.
It is reported that this year, Spreadtrum has launched a project in the research and development of 5G; Global Leading Strategy for 5G Chips;, We have successively established strategic partnerships with China Mobile, Intel, Huawei, Shide Technology, and Rohde&Schwarz, and plan to launch the first 5G chip within 2018 and the first commercial 5G mobile phone platform in the second half of 2019, to achieve simultaneous deployment with 5G mobile networks and push it to the market.