After Intel and Foxconn announced that they would build advanced plants in the United States, it might seem that the United States seemed to have a strong momentum in high-end manufacturing.
But last Friday, California-based chip maker GlobalFoundries announced a $ 10 billion investment (about 70 billion yuan) of the project, the investment destination is China. This shows that the focus continues to shift to the other side of the Pacific.
The company plans to build an advanced semiconductor plant in Chengdu, China's hinterland. This is only recently in the Chinese government's support to enter a series of investment in China from the recent one. The main body of these investments is usually large multinationals. Related projects have become significantly more advanced, the production of products is more advanced microchip, memory chip or flat panel display.bsm50gp120
The reason for the shift in gravity is partly in the Chinese government. In 2013, Beijing announced a major effort to enhance China's microchip production capacity. The microchip is the brain of all the items from the guided missile to the smartphone. According to analysts, the call of Chinese electronics manufacturers to buy Chinese-made chips of the new guidelines, but also to promote the decision-making related companies.
Because China has begun to focus on semiconductors, the origin of advanced chips has become an increasingly worrying political issue. Over the past two years, the US government has stopped China's offer to US and European chip companies, and a committee established by former President Barack Obama said China's chip policy constituted a US company Danger.
President Chuanpu was elected to lead to further pressure on the company, several of which have announced plans to build factories in the United States. In the case of Intel, the company renewed its promise to implement a plan that it had announced earlier. fs800r07a2e3
Leading the Chinese offensive, both the central government, but also the provincial level government. They spent billions of dollars on investment and subsidies. The government says China will invest about $ 100 billion to bring chip factories and research facilities into China.
"Almost all large semiconductor companies in the United States have received investment offers from China's main body of government agencies," a report from the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a German-based think tank. The report goes on to say that China's latest industrial policy, "Made in China 2025," lists semiconductors as a key area for improvement.
Although analysts are still not sure how long China will be able to eliminate the huge gap between Japan, South Korea and the United States, but the funds have been slowly attracting new factories. A semiconductor industry organization said in a recent report that it is tracking the production of more than 20 semiconductor factories in China.
"This money will drive China to the top microchip manufacturing equipment and is paving the way for China to build its position on the global semiconductor arena," said SEMI, a global microelectronics industry association. It refers to the tools used to make the chip.
GlobalFoundries project has been opened, and it is the cooperation of the Chengdu municipal government. GlobalFoundries declined to disclose the amount of the specific investment, but several documents on the government website said the project total investment of about 10 billion US dollars.
Jason Gorss, a spokeswoman for GlobalFoundries, declined to provide financial details, but said in an e-mail that "industry analysts estimate that the cost of building an advanced semiconductor manufacturing plant is about $ 10 billion The manufacturer will be within this range. " It is unclear how much investment the company and the Chengdu municipal government are responsible for.
Although the factory produces semiconductors will be behind the cutting edge of the most sophisticated chip technology, but they are based on a special design. This design may allow them to be used in mobile devices, cars and other sensors that are increasingly connected to the calculator network.
GlobalFoundries is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and is part of Abu Dhabi, one of the members of the United Arab Emirates. The company's semiconductor plant is located around the world, including two in the United States used to produce chips for the US military factory. The two factories belonged to IBM.
Although Intel and Foxconn have said they plan to build factories in the United States, but in China in the construction of the factory far more than the number of them.
Despite the long-term concern that the Taiwanese government has left the industry out of the competition and potential theft of intellectual property, the end of 2015, leading chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. said it would build a production plant in the mainland. At the end of last year, another major chip maker, China Taiwan, announced that it would build a factory in the eastern coastal areas of mainland China.
Other companies have taken a different approach. US chip maker AMD has licensed technology to a Chinese joint venture in Chengdu. IBM has licensed the chip technology to another local partner.
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