It is beneficial to the development of semiconductor equipment industry in China

In 2016, the global semiconductor sales reached 338.9 billion US dollars, facing a huge domestic semiconductor market. Semiconductor demand, but long-term dependence on imports, there is a large gap between domestic semiconductors.

From around 2000 to 2016, the rapid expansion of the consumer electronics market supported the strong development of the global semiconductor industry. In recent years, industries such as artificial intelligence, 5g, UAV, VR / AR and robot have developed rapidly. It is expected that relay appliances will become the market growth point of downstream semiconductor demand in the next few years

Semiconductor automation equipment belongs to the ranks of advanced manufacturing processes in the semiconductor industry.

The manufacturing process of integrated circuits requires a large number of manufacturing and processing equipment. These equipment have high technical content, great manufacturing difficulty and high equipment value. According to the upstream and downstream division of the semiconductor industry chain, semiconductor devices belong to the semiconductor industry. The use of semiconductor devices goes through the upstream, midstream and downstream of the semiconductor manufacturing process.

The emergence of a large number of domestic semiconductor equipment enterprises does not hinder the emergence of China's top semiconductor industry. Many of them also have certain competitiveness in the international market.

The development of semiconductor industry is beneficial to domestic semiconductor automation equipment enterprises

In 2005, China became the world's z-largest semiconductor consumer market and maintained an unshakable market position record for 13 years. With demand, China's semiconductor market share once reached an amazing half of the world. In 2016, China's semiconductor sales amounted to 107.5 billion US dollars, accounting for 31.72% of the world market, while the domestic wafer production capacity was 1849 kW / m, accounting for 10.8% of the world total. There is a serious imbalance between supply and demand in China's semiconductor industry. From 2013 to 2016, China's imports of integrated circuit products exceeded US $200 billion for the fourth consecutive year.

The huge difference between supply and demand of China's semiconductor industry not only has an adverse impact on the development of domestic semiconductor industry itself, but also affects the development of domestic semiconductor downstream application industry to a certain extent. In addition, integrated circuit is the foundation and power source of the rapid development of information technology industry. Its technical level and development scale are one of the important indicators to measure a country's industrial competitiveness and comprehensive national strength.

Localization of semiconductor industry is essential. To this end, the government has provided a lot of policy and financial support to support the development of domestic semiconductor industry. According to the technology roadmap of key areas of integrated circuit manufacturing in made in China 2025, the development of domestic semiconductor industry will focus on capacity expansion and advanced manufacturing technology.