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Semiconductor market grows fastest in China

China's integrated circuit market achieved for the first time 200 billion yuan in 2003 with a year-on-year increase of 41 percent, the highest over the past three years, according to news from the "2004 China Semiconductor Annual Meeting" held in Shanghai on Feb. 19.


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China's integrated circuit market achieved for the first time 200 billion yuan in 2003 with a year-on-year increase of 41 percent, the highest over the past three years, according to news from the "2004 China Semiconductor Annual Meeting" held in Shanghai on Feb. 19.

Report by authoritative CCID Group said domestic integrated circuit industry sees increasingly marked clustering effect as up to 95 percent of the sales income comes from Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin Bohai Bay circle and Zhujiang River Delta. Presently, a relatively complete integrated circuit industrial chain, including R&D, design, chip production and assembly test has been formed in the Yangtze River Delta.

The integrated circuit industry boasts eye-catching growth.

Statistics show domestic sales income actually realized by the industry of integrated circuit design throughout the year reached 4.49 billion yuan, more than doubled from the previous year. Its take-up in the industrial chain also topped 10 percent for the first time, marking the momentum of healthy development.

Despite the achievement, domestic integrated circuit industry needs improvement in its overall strength compared with developed countries.

Sales income of domestic integrated circuit industry took up only 3.4 percent of the global total and 17 percent of the total demand in domestic market.

The design of chips remains in preliminary stage despite great progress. The advanced manufacturing technology has made 8 inches, and 0.25-0.18 micrometers possible but lags behind the high level of 12 inches and 0.13 micrometers overseas. In terms of standard, currently, products made by domestic integrated circuit enterprises are mainly of medium or low level. Products such as CPU (Central Processing Unit), DSP (digital signal processor), storage appliance and other high-end communication professional circuit are not available for batch production.

By People's Daily Online


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