At present, China's smart phone industry is developing rapidly. If a complete industrial chain can be formed in the early stage of 5G, it will be expected to obtain the first barrel of technological innovation, which is crucial for the further development and maturity of China's smart phone industry. From the experience of the past 3G and 4G industry development, the problems of technology and testing, the introduction and maturity of terminal chips often lag behind the system side, becoming the bottleneck in the initial stage of industrial development, especially the 5G terminal chips receive the most attention. .
China's well-known integrated circuit design company Spreadtrum Communications officially settled in Nanjing Jiangbei New District (High-tech Zone) Industrial Technology Research and Development Park, which is the first time that Spreadtrum Communications has established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Nanjing.
As the leading enterprise in China's IC design industry, Spreadtrum Communication is committed to independent technology innovation in the field of mobile communication technology, focusing on the research and development of wireless terminal core chips, special software and reference design platforms. In August of this year, Spreadtrum Communications officially signed up to settle in Nanjing Jiangbei New District (High-tech Zone) Industrial Technology Research and Development Park, and set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in the park with a total investment of about 298 million US dollars, mainly responsible for CPU, 5G, mobile intelligent terminal systems and software. For the core content research and development work, the plan will gradually reach more than 600 people in 5 years, and strive to reach 1,000 people. The company's business scale will be second only to Shanghai headquarters.
According to the person in charge of Spreadtrum Communications, the company is currently stationed in the Yingying Building in the park. More than 20 professional engineers have been working in Ning, and a group of graduate students will be recruited in Nanjing in the future. In addition, the park has reserved 10 floors for the company as an office building. The entry of the mobile communication giant will greatly enhance the level of integrated circuit design industry in Jiangbei New District, create an industrial agglomeration area, attract a large number of upstream and downstream affiliates to settle in, and promote the coordinated development of the industry.
China's first autonomous 5G chip released in 2020
Dr. Kang Yi, the global vice president of domestic independent chip manufacturer Spreadtrum Communications, revealed in an interview that in the 5G aspect, Spreadtrum invested heavily, and strived to launch experimental 5G chips in 2018, and to launch chips that meet the 5G standard by 2020. Now that 5G standardization has just begun, commercial chips are still too early. However, the industry chain has formed a consensus to achieve large-scale commercialization by 2020. In the standardization discussion, the most controversial is the system problem, followed by the chip.
However, this part of the chip is very important. From the perspective of 3G and 4G, the terminal chips are very lagging behind in 3G and 4G. In the five-year plan of Spreadtrum, the 5G chip and the standard will be developed simultaneously. Spreadtrum strives to become the first echelon of the 5G terminal chip commercial.
"The first barrel of gold has a high gold content, and the profit rate is getting lower and lower in the future. This is very meaningful from a commercial point of view." Kang Yi believes that technically, it is a standard, and it is a chip. If the chip is synchronized with the standard, more manpower and money will be invested. For example, a lot of investment has been made in the early stage, but once the standard changes, it will cause a certain waste of resources.
However, it has a positive significance for promoting the entire 5G industry. At present, Spreadtrum is seeking some new solutions to make future terminal chips more flexible and adapt to standard development changes, so that chips and standards can be developed simultaneously.
In the view of Spreadtrum, 5G realizes the torrent of data. It is only one level. The true ambition is to break the traditional mobile communication with "people" as the main constraint and lead to the "object" interconnection of intelligent society. Spreadtrum will strive to be the enabler of the smart society of the future, not just the participants. To this end, Spreadtrum proposed two legs in the 5G research and development: on the one hand, it continues to promote the evolution based on 4G technology, on the one hand, the development of 5G new technology, both. At the same time, Spreadtrum proposed two concepts and development routes of “Light-5G†and “Fidelity-5Gâ€. The former is to gradually improve the traditional communication technology to meet the needs of mobile Internet and Internet of Things. It is compatible with the quantification and diversification of applications that meet future terminals and the ever-changing applications.
Kang Yi analysis believes that in the 5G era, mobile phones or 5G devices: one is intelligent, and the other is interconnected. The 5G era has arrived, and 2020 will be the first year of 5G commercial use. On the application side, an important aspect of 5G applications is the Internet of Things. At present, mobile phone capacity or production has approached saturation. People expect a 20% annual increase, which may be unrealistic. The growth of mobile phones has slowed down, and only a small point can be added each year. However, the number of Internet of Things connections will increase and become massive, which is an important aspect of 5G.
For technical difficulty, Kang Yi said that a few years ago, the PC may not be able to lose its current mobile phone processing capacity. Because of market demand, artificial intelligence appears, and computing power needs to be further strengthened. This is the future demand for chips in the mobile phone market. After the computing power is strong, it can support many applications. For example, VR has strong display and sensing capabilities in addition to strong computing power, in order to support VR applications, such as artificial intelligence to identify image recognition video applications. Supporting 4K display requires a lot of bandwidth, such as processor and memory bandwidth.
According to reports, since 2003, Spreadtrum has successfully developed the first 2G/2.5G/GSM/GPRS mobile phone core chip with independent intellectual property rights in Asia, which has achieved breakthroughs in the core technology of mobile communication terminals, thus breaking the technological monopoly of large European and American companies. Today, 4G LTE is launched, and its products cover 2G, 3G and 4G. In recent years, Spreadtrum has continued to participate in the national medium and long-term science and technology major special planning and implementation, and has undertaken dozens of national and local science and technology special tasks including the 2008-2014 national science and technology major projects. For the current focus of the industry's concerted efforts 5G, Spreadtrum has invested a lot of resources to accelerate research and development since last year.
China's 5G terminal chip has the opportunity to lead
1. In the 5G era, China's 5G terminal chips have the opportunity to lead
Although the past 2G, 3G, and 4G are all behind, China will not fall behind in the 5G era and have the opportunity to lead the world. The 5G network will be commercialized in 2020. The domestic independent chip manufacturer Spreadtrum Communications will invest more in 5G. According to the plan, it will strive to launch experimental 5G chips in 2018, and by 2020, it will launch chips that comply with the 5G standard. As early as 2014, Spreadtrum started 5G research and development, and carefully laid out the core technology, system solutions and design plans, and has clear roadmap for terminal development technology. Up to now, Spreadtrum's 5G has entered the technical solution verification phase, terminal development has started, and the first phase of the platform has been ready to go.
2. Actively and flexibly committed to the development of 5G terminal chips
The most critical and positive part of Spreadtrum's plan is to synchronize the development of 5G chips and standards, and strive to become the first echelon of commercial 5G terminal chips. Originally speaking, the standard was set first, and the chip was made. If the chip is synchronized with the standard, more manpower and money will be invested. A lot of investment has been made in the early stage. Once the standard changes, it will cause a certain waste of resources. At present, Spreadtrum is seeking new solutions to make future terminal chips more flexible and adapt to standard development changes in order to achieve simultaneous development of chips and standards.
3. Open cooperation to achieve Spreadtrum 5G Dream
The success of 5G needs to be based on the healthy development of the global ecological chain, and its rapid development requires open cooperation. Spreadtrum actively cooperates with partners from different fields in the industry. Develop core technologies together with universities and institutions such as Tsinghua University, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Southeast University, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, China Communications Research Institute, etc., and China Mobile, Huawei, Ericsson, ZTE, France, Keysight, Rhodes, etc. Jointly promote the development of 3GPP 5G standards and China's 5G technology field trials.
In the view of Spreadtrum, 5G realizes the torrent of data. It is only one level. The true ambition is to break the traditional mobile communication with "people" as the main constraint and lead to the "object" interconnection of intelligent society. Spreadtrum will strive to be the enabler of the smart society of the future, not just the participants.
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