Taiwan's IC Design Industry Sluggish for Blue Ocean

USB 3.0 design company Fresco (Fresco) and Texas Instruments (TI) with Intel (Intel) origin recently successfully grabbed the USB-IFLogo certification header for the 2011 USB3.0 Host chip. Taiwan-based IC design company completely annihilated. Taiwan's IC design industry can be said to be facing the night rain, it is learned that the government attaches great importance to the development of the incident, is embarking on the development of policies, and hope to find a blue ocean outlet for the Taiwan Department of IC design.

Taiwan's IC design industry continues to suffer from bad news. In addition to Continental Spreadtrum’s rush to take orders from IC design companies in Taiwan, Texas Instruments (TI) proposed US$6.5 billion in the acquisition of National Semiconductor. It also triggered an analogy in the IC industry. This time, the USB3.0 Host controller chip Certification, Taiwan's IC design industry, and all out, it is for the prospects of Taiwan's IC design industry, cold sweat.

Officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs pointed out that analog ICs account for about 6 to 7% of the output value of Taiwan's IC design industry, and the largest is still logic ICs. Therefore, the acquisition of national semiconductors by Texas Instruments should not seriously affect Taiwan's IC design industry, and the high unit price of Texas Instruments products. Although it has stepped into the industrial and automotive IC field, the Taiwan plant will not have no room for survival. However, if Texas Instruments uses its own 8-inch wafer fab to launch products with good performance and low prices, it will inevitably bring huge scale to the Taiwan factory. Competitive pressure.

Officials said that it is worth noting that Qualcomm has matured technology in the 3G field, but that Qualcomm’s product strategy is not static and that it is actively providing products with low functionality but good stability to the 2.5G and 2.75G markets. The survival space of the same industry is indeed a source of pressure for those who rely on communications as the main force. As for the Netbook, which is affected by the big sales of tablets, the related design industry has also been affected.

Officials pointed out that the government is guiding the IC design industry to develop from 3C products such as communications, computers, peripherals, and display drivers to the automotive IC, medical electronics, and green energy ICs through the national technology plan. In addition, the “Industry Innovation Regulations” will continue to provide Taiwanese IC designers with tax credits for R&D expenses, hoping to create a survival foundation for Taiwan’s IC design industry.

As for the IC design taking off in mainland China, the fact that the mainland system end has significantly reduced the amount of single-chip IC design industry release, officials said that IC design products in the mainland and Taiwan are highly similar, once the mainland industry can provide high security and reliability. High products do pose a threat to Taiwan plants. In the past, Taiwan’s expertise in customer demand was close to the system, and the mainland gradually had this feature. Coupled with the mainland’s official guidance and policy protection measures for the mainland’s domestic industries, the Taiwanese industry’s domestic market in China has become less and less accessible. Cheaper.

Officials emphasized that Taiwan’s IC design accounts for 20% of the world's total, second only to the United States, and far ahead of other competitors, and that Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are not likely to eat the entire market. The output value of Taiwan’s IC design industry will continue to grow rather than shrink. As to whether Taiwan's IC design industry will inevitably appear to have competition for bargaining? Officials said that Taiwan's IC design industry products are highly similar, and MediaTek purchases and shares Ralink with its strategic considerations for expanding its product line. Future mergers and acquisitions to expand product lines should continue to occur.

Industry analysis, currently including MediaTek, Lianhe, Yuchuang, Haoli, Xujing and Maoda related IC design industry performance in the first quarter of poor performance, mainly the mainland cottage market downturn, and global middle and low-end market output value It began to shrink.

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