Hefei is speeding up efforts to build itself into the "IC Capital of China"

At present, Hefei has initially completed the layout of the whole integrated circuit industry chain, and has become one of the cities with the fastest development speed and the most remarkable achievements in the domestic integrated circuit industry.

　　Industrial cluster effect

Employees increase output at an integrated circuit company's dust-free workplace in Hefei. The chips are continually assembled and seem to be inserted in various high-tech devices in the next second via a complicated and sophisticated procedure, allowing thousands of wires to form intelligent life.

This accurately depicts the rapid expansion of the Hefei integrated circuit industry. Being the foundation of the information society, integrated circuits are a strategic, essential, and leading industry that contributes to the growth of the contemporary economy and society.

Hefei has introduced a series of powerful measures in recent years to accelerate the development of characteristic chips such as drivers, storage, and power management, with a focus on integrated circuits, a strategic emerging industry. It has established four distinct chip industry sectors, including memory, display drivers, smart home appliances, and automotive electronics, while actively promoting the layout of the integrated circuit industry chain and constantly exerting the industrial cluster effect. They will continue to give economic development a boost. After continuous development, the integrated circuit industry chain of Hefei is becoming more and more perfect, which makes the integrated circuit industry of Hefei realize the cluster development, forming a new advantage of industrial ecological construction.

Statistics show that by the end of 2021, Hefei, a beautiful city, has more than 350 integrated circuit enterprises. In 2021, the output value of the whole industrial chain reached nearly 40 billion CNY, with a year-on-year growth of about 30%. Hefei has also been listed as a national key development city of integrated circuit industry by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It has been approved as the first "Cross-Straits Integrated circuit Industry Cooperation Pilot Zone" and the first batch of strategic emerging industrial clusters of integrated circuit in the country.

It is understood that Hefei next plan will comprehensively upgrade the level of integrated circuit industry cluster, the city's integrated circuit industry output value exceeded 100 billion CNY.

Policy support has accelerated the improvement of industrial innovation capacity

In the event of the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, an intelligent human body thermometer using an AI vision chip can provide the precise location of the face in real time, quickly diagnose the body temperature of personnel and give early warning. In the process of fighting the epidemic, this kind of intelligent human thermometer has been widely used in airports, railway stations and other places, and continues to play an important role. It is Hefei Junzheng Technology Co., LTD., an integrated circuit company that "injects" its innovation capability into human body thermometer and provides AI vision chips.

Junzheng Technology is just a vivid footnote that Hefei integrated circuit enterprises continue to enhance the ability of technological innovation and actively seize the technological research and development plateau. Behind the increasing innovation ability of enterprises is the policy support of Hefei City government.

In the event of the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, an intelligent human body thermometer using an AI vision chip can provide the precise location of the face in real time, quickly diagnose the body temperature of personnel and give early warning. In the process of fighting the epidemic, this kind of intelligent human thermometer has been widely used in airports, railway stations and other places, and continues to play an important role. It is Hefei Junzheng Technology Co., LTD., an integrated circuit company that "injects" its innovation capability into human body thermometer and provides AI vision chips.

After years of research and development and accumulation, the company has formed the CPU, AIE, ISP, VPU and low power and other key technologies. Chip application scenarios cover professional monitoring, consumer video, battery doorbell, video door locks, operators, video conferencing, machine vision and vehicle monitoring and many other sectors.

According to the news, Hefei has successfully been approved as a national demonstration base, the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China to jointly build the Hefei Institute of Microelectronics, providing public services such as process development and testing. In 2021, Hefei will open 10 new innovation platforms above the provincial level, including the provincial enterprise Technology Center. At present, there are 52 innovation platforms for integrated circuit enterprises in Hefei, among which 37 are above provincial level. The public service level of integrated circuit in Hefei has been comprehensively improved, and a number of important achievements have been made in tackling key issues in core technologies.

In the next step, Hefei will focus on key areas such as high-end universal chips, power semiconductors, materials and equipment, and actively carry out layout.