Yang Xudong: The IC industry has three "extraordinary" attributes to integrate into the global cycle of the IC industry

From June 25th to 26th, with the theme of "The heart and the core are in harmony, and the changes are like Kunpeng", the 5th Jiwei Semiconductor Summit was held in Haicang, Xiamen, hosted by the Semiconductor Investment Alliance and the China Mobile Alliance, and co-organized by Aijiwei and Xiamen Semiconductor Investment Group.

At the theme summit of the 5th Jiwei Semiconductor Summit held on the morning of the 26th, Yang Xudong, Deputy Director of the Electronic Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended and delivered a speech.

Regarding the attributes and characteristics of the current development of the integrated circuit industry, Yang Xudong summarized them into three "extraordinary" aspects: extraordinary importance, extraordinary investment required, and an extraordinary development path.

First of all, chips are an extraordinarily important industry.

Yang Xudong pointed out that in the intelligent era, "all intelligence is calculated", and all calculations need to be based on the chip device structure. The computing structure and computing power defined by the chip determine the level of intelligence in various application fields.

Therefore, chips are an extremely important industry, an enabling industry that enables the intelligence of all aspects of the economy and society. For example, fields such as biomedicine and weather forecasting are all realized through calculations based on scientific cognitive principles and models. In the future, more and more fields will require calculations, and more and more places will rely on chips.

Second, the chip industry requires extraordinary investment.

Yang Xudong introduced that for the past 30 years, integrated circuits have always been a high ground for policy support. For the development of the integrated circuit industry, the power of capital is very important, but it also requires coordinated support from supporting technology, manpower, capital, and policies.

The integrated circuit industry has a special mission and task. It needs to invest more resources than it already has to meet the development needs of the chip industry and further meet the needs of social intelligence. It needs to fully allocate resources, coordinate resources from all aspects to invest in the field of integrated circuits, and coordinate with enterprises, universities, research institutions, and even industry media. Everyone has to do good things and get things done when they get resources. In the face of central requirements and social concerns, we need to work together.

Third, the chip industry needs to take an unconventional development path.

Yang Xudong believes that the integrated circuit industry is destined to be a global cycle industry due to its high technology content, high investment, high complexity and ultra-long chain. It is probably not feasible to do a self-circulation behind closed doors. If there are enough resources invested, it may work, but it is inefficient from an industrial perspective. No country in the world can support the cycle of integrated circuits on its own.

Yang Xudong emphasized that integrated circuit practitioners need to have a broader mind, adhere to openness, integration, and cooperation, participate more deeply in the global cycle of the integrated circuit industry, and make "Chinese contributions" to the global cycle of the industry.

In addition, Yang Xudong pointed out that in the current process of "climbing the hill and crossing the hurdle" of the development of the integrated circuit industry, when encountering difficulties, don't always think about "changing lanes to overtake" or "overtaking on a curve."

"The integrated circuit industry has been developing for 60 years and has formed a very strict industrial ecology. In the process of industrial development and growth, we still have to walk through important checkpoints and nodes steadily," said Yang Xudong.