According to Global Sources, China is seeking to boost its IC manufacturing sector by pursuing phase-change memory, the memory technology that was developed by Numonyx and others but which failed to deliver sufficient density to challenge traditional floating gate NAND memory.
China is on a bid to reduce its dependence on IC imports which account for 80% of all ICs used in China.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, is forecasting that Chinese IC output, including sales from foreign companies (like Intel) with fabs in China, will be $52bn in 2015, enough to meet almost 28% of domestic demand.
In H1 2011, Chian’s IC output was valued at $12.5bn. Chian’s fabless sector grew 45% in 2011.
Assembly and test grew 11% to $5.7bn.