In 2020, China's semiconductor industry has received unprecedented attention. Due to the complex international situation, China's semiconductor industry faces great challenges.
It can be said that advancing the development of the semiconductor industry to the point of urgency. To this end, China has elevated the development of integrated circuits to a national strategy. In the latest 14th Five-Year Plan, it has clearly pointed out that integrated circuits will be the key breakthrough technological project in the next phase. It is foreseeable that in the next few years, my country's semiconductor industry will usher in new development opportunities.
2020 Semiconductor Optoelectronics Industry CIO Summit Forum Opens in Nanjing
In the context of the coexistence of crises in the semiconductor industry, to examine the just-concluded "2020 New H3C Semiconductor Optoelectronics Industry CIO Summit Forum" held by the New H3C Group, a subsidiary of Ziguang Co., has a deeper meaning. Because the semiconductor industry is only one of thousands of industries in the past. Although the semiconductor industry has its own industry specificity, it is not fundamentally different from other industries. However, in the current situation, the semiconductor industry is not only affecting the industry, almost The importance of the digital and intelligent transformation process of every industry is self-evident.
Let's take a look at what Xin H3C has insights into the digital transformation of the semiconductor industry.
Part1. Why should the semiconductor industry embrace digitalization and intelligence?
Every industry is talking about embracing digitization and intelligence. Where is the urgency for the semiconductor industry to embrace digitization and intelligence?
Before answering this question, let me talk about the basic categories and challenges of the semiconductor industry. According to subdivision, the semiconductor industry can be divided into three categories: chip design, wafer manufacturing, and packaging and testing. From the perspective of the problems encountered in development, it is mainly reflected in four aspects: 1. Wide-ranging scenarios; 2. Increased technical complexity; 3. Shortened development cycle; 4. Increased cost pressure.
There is no need to explain more, one link after another, increasing demand and complexity will inevitably trigger the second, third, and fourth points. The "2015-2020 China Semiconductor Market Demand Scale and Forecast" report released by the China Business Industry Research Institute shows that from 2015 to 2020, the demand for China's semiconductor industry will continue to maintain a rapid growth trend, and this year is expected to approach 2 trillion yuan.
Of course, because different types of enterprises involve different manufacturing links, they have different focus on transformation.
I have to mention the particularity of the semiconductor industry here. For manufacturing companies, production and management are separate. There are two systems. Production depends on OT and management depends on IT. OT is very closed, not seeking the latest but seeking stability, while IT is different. The efficiency improvement brought by new technologies is obvious.
Therefore, the transformation of this type of enterprise actually refers more to the management part. For example, the introduction of digital technologies such as order robots and financial reimbursement robots can help companies save labor and improve efficiency.
In addition, for companies that do not involve manufacturing, such as those that focus on logic design, cloud computing technology can significantly save initial investment costs and operation and maintenance costs.
Part2. Where is the transformation of the semiconductor industry?
The transformation goals of semiconductor companies should be very clear: that is, to improve management efficiency, increase factory efficiency, and increase production efficiency.
To sum it up, it's just one sentence: Smart IT, which breaks down this strategy into three improvements, namely, digital decision-making, smart parks, and smart manufacturing. It sounds simple, how do you land? It covers a lot of content and links.
Among them, improving management efficiency involves many aspects such as opening up the operation and production value chain, continuous improvement of various links, improving the management ability of personnel and cadres, and reducing labor costs through RPA;
Improve production efficiency coverage, increase equipment intelligence rate, increase equipment use efficiency, increase product yield, and shorten supply cycle;
Improving factory efficiency includes improving employee office efficiency and experience, improving the company's ability to control personnel, improving safety production guarantee capabilities, and reducing park operation and management costs.
Obviously, it is definitely impossible to achieve by the company itself. The choice of partners is very important. As the organizer of this forum, does New H3C Group have enough capacity to support semiconductor companies to move into the digital age?
Part3. What can Xin H3C provide for the transformation of the semiconductor industry?
In general terms, various information equipment of the production line, such as servers, networks, storage, a full set of digital infrastructure for the management line, and more importantly, the digital transformation methodology of the semiconductor industry.
Specifically, it is discussed at two levels.
On the first level, Xin H3C Group itself is a manufacturing industry, and most of the semiconductor industry users are also manufacturing. In other words, Xin H3C’s digital transformation process can provide a reference for the transformation of semiconductor enterprise users.
Wang Yanping, Vice President of New H3C Group and General Manager of Enterprise Business Department
How does the new H3C Group's own digital transformation work? As Wang Yanping, Vice President of Xin H3C Group and General Manager of Enterprise Business Unit, said in his speech, Xin H3C relies on the digital brain to build data center, AI center, and mobile center to enable R&D, product, manufacturing, marketing, and service. , The platform has realized digital reconstruction, through the implementation of a series of innovative applications such as RPA robots, integrated delivery, employee portraits, intelligent prediction of spare parts, and remote work, and ensured business continuity with active safety and unified operation and maintenance.
On the second level, there are many semiconductor companies under the Ziguang Group, a subsidiary of New H3C Group, which means that New H3C has a complete set of solutions to help semiconductor companies achieve digital transformation. In fact, not only the companies under Ziguang, but also world-renowned semiconductor companies such as BOE and Hynix have chosen Xin H3C as their digital transformation partner.
At present, H3C is able to provide the semiconductor industry with full-stack digital solutions including full connectivity and edge perception, digital infrastructure, cloud and intelligent platforms, business application platforms, and industrial APPs, helping semiconductor companies realize the digitalization of knowledge and services , Factory digitalization, business digitalization, process digitalization.
Therefore, the new H3C Group's assistance in the digital transformation of the semiconductor industry is by no means providing simple products and solutions, but a full-stack capability from consulting to products to implementation. It is no wonder that Xin H3C has such a high market share in the semiconductor industry.
Part4. Empowering the semiconductor industry, H3C's innovation does not stop
The semiconductor industry is entering a new period of development. Opportunities and challenges coexist, depending on how companies embrace the future. In order to better empower the semiconductor industry, New H3C Group is continuing to innovate and deepen cooperation to provide digital solutions more suitable for the semiconductor industry.
Participating experts visited the experience center of Ziguang Group
In terms of effectiveness, the efforts of New H3C Group are paying off, and more and more semiconductor companies have chosen New H3C. Of course, this is not enough. Relying on the strength of the entire Unigroup, New H3C has many implementation measures. For example, in October this year, the Unigroup’s chip design industry Internet platform was launched in the Shanghai Maqiao Artificial Intelligence Innovation Experimental Zone, using this platform as a carrier. Export the core cloud capabilities of Ziguang Group to empower the entire chip design industry and comprehensively improve the design capabilities and efficiency of chip companies.
In the future, there will be many such big moves. I hope that more semiconductor companies can benefit from them. Let us look forward to the take-off of China's semiconductor industry.