Nikkei: China's chip self-sufficiency rate is only 16%, and it is difficult to reach 70% in 2025
October 13 news, according to the Nikkei news report, although China vigorously promote the domestic chip manufacturing industry, but from the data of research institutions, want to reach the goal of 70% chip self-sufficiency rate in 2025, it can be said that it is far away, because last year, China's chip self-sufficiency rate was only 16%.
According to market research firm IC Insights, only 16 percent of semiconductors in China were sourced from domestic sources last year, and that number drops significantly to 6 percent if non-mainland companies with factories in China, such as TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix, are excluded.
In 2021, China's total industry self-sufficiency rate is 80%, which is not divided into high, medium and low grades of processors, and counts the industry-wide self-sufficiency rate.
It should be noted that the import rate of high-end processors is greater than 90%. The import rate of mid-end processors is 85%. Low-end products for their own development with processors? Its self-sufficiency rate is close to 100%.
The price of high-end processors is higher than the price of low-end processors, and the price of a high-end processor is 3 to 5 times that of low-end processors. The price difference of some processors is tens of times.
According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 30% of China's chip self-sufficiency rate is less than, and it costs trillions of foreign exchange to import chips every year. In January 2021, China's financing semiconductor enterprises reached more than 40, and financing reached 12.5 billion yuan. Industry observer Hong Shibin said: the chip has a complete industrial chain, in the continuous improvement and upgrading, the chip technology and production capacity does not exist will be controlled by some enterprises in the hand, this is a global crystallization, should realize technology and product sharing, will also let China's chip have more growth opportunities.