Report Highlights
In 2000, the State Council promulgated the Policy for Encouraging the Development of the Software Industry and the IC Industry (file ref.: Guo Fa [2000]18). Subsequently, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved seven national IC design bases in Shanghai, Xi'an, Wuxi, Beijing, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Shenzhen. At present, there are nearly 500 IC design enterprises across China, with four hubs, including the Yangtze River Delta area led by Shanghai, Wuxi, Hangzhou and Suzhou, the Pearl River Delta with Shenzhen and Zhuahi at the center, the Bohai Rim area with Beijing-Tianjin on the axial line, and the central and western regions with Xi'an, Chengdu and Wuhan at the center.
As the international market was in a downturn and price wars escalated in the domestic market, China's IC design industry experienced slowdown in 2008. At the same time, technologies largely come from the same sources and product homogeneity is quite conspicuous. Small enterprises find it difficult to grow in size, and large enterprises find it difficult to beef up strength. The industry gets into the plateau phase. For the industry to maintain healthy development, it is imperative to conduct independent innovation.
In the face of changes in competition, technological progress and challenges, we release 2008-2009 Annual Report on China's IC Design Market. Based on a survey on nearly 100 key IC design companies in Mainland China, the report derives relevant data on China's IC industry. Meanwhile, through objective analysis of market environment, government planning and industry policy, it studies the competition situation, future hot investment fields and development trend of the industry, to help vendors, investors and industry insiders grasp more accurately laws governing the industry's development and comb the development track of technology upgrade in this sector.
