China News Service, Hangzhou, July 17 (Huang Lingyi) On the 16th, the Zhejiang Integrated Circuit Industry Technology Alliance and the Industrial Chain Collaborative Innovation Forum were held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
At the meeting, a number of experts in the field of integrated circuits proposed that the slowing pace of development in the post-Moore era will bring opportunities for "China Chip" to change lanes and overtake. Silicon-based optoelectronics and semiconductor heterogeneous integration will become important developments for integrated circuits in the future direction.
Wu Hanming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in microelectronics technology, said that now it has entered the post-Moore era, and its biggest feature is that the improvement of chip performance every year shows a trend of slowing development.
"Before 2002, the annual chip performance increased by 52%, in the following years it became 23%, and then to 3.5% in 2018. This shows that the slowdown in development is a trend. Under these conditions, It is undoubtedly an opportunity for China's "catch-up" ICs."
At this opportunity, Wu Hanming believes that it is necessary to sort out the characteristics of the post-Moore era, including unclear technical directions, business industrialization, market fragmentation, and low R&D expenditures.
"In the overall development, I think the biggest challenge for our country is the chip manufacturing process, and the interdisciplinary characteristics are also the most obvious in the manufacturing category."
"On May 6, IBM announced a chip with a characteristic line width of two nanometers. It can be seen that integrated circuit technology is constantly developing, which also makes the competition of integrated circuits a very important field." Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Semiconductor Materials Science According to Yang Deren, the medium and long-term development of international integrated circuits will have multiple challenges, including physical limitations on feature size; delays in electrical interconnection signals and limited bandwidth; and rising power density.
"The integration of silicon integrated circuits and optoelectronics, also known as silicon-based optoelectronics, will become an important direction for the development of integrated circuits." Yang Deren introduced that silicon-based optoelectronics has a series of advantages in its performance, such as wider bandwidth, Low power consumption, basically no electromagnetic interference, small size, high interface density, etc.
"It is precisely because of these advantages that silicon-based optoelectronics will have a wide range of uses in future communication data centers, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence."
Yang Deren said that in recent years, silicon-based optoelectronics has initially formed an industrial chain from material substrate epitaxy to detail processing to equipment application.
"It is also predicted internationally that its sales will continue to increase, reaching more than $1.6 billion by 2025. And its development speed is still accelerating."
On the same day, the Hangzhou Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University joined with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Zhejiang Semiconductor Industry Association, Hangzhou National "Core Fire" double innovation base (platform) and more than 150 upstream and downstream institutions in the integrated circuit industry chain in Zhejiang Province. The Zhejiang Integrated Circuit Industry Technology Alliance initiated by the enterprise was also established on site.
Li Ruxin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Zhangjiang Laboratory, said that the establishment of the alliance will further mobilize resources from all parties, give full play to the organizational advantages of the "Big Corps Operations" and the advantages of the Yangtze River Delta region, which will help build an integrated circuit industry innovation ecosystem and realize domestic chip independence. Control is of great significance.
It is reported that the alliance will link leading enterprises with the resources of colleges and universities to solve the problem of the disconnection between production and education in the talent training of China's integrated circuit industry, and create compound talents that meet the needs of industrial development.
In addition, the alliance will rely on the Zhejiang Integrated Circuit Innovation Platform to jointly build the only domestic public innovation platform for 12-inch CMOS integrated circuit chip design and manufacturing complete process technology to provide strong support for the development of industrial technology in the Yangtze River Delta and even China.
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