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In the first three months of the year, entities in China paid a total of US$107.2 billion for 140.3 billion IC units, up 14.6 per cent year on year.
As for the semiconductors to be used in China, they should be basically differentiated between domestic market demand and processing and assembly for export, such as assembling cell phones for Apple and assembling computers for HP, Dell, Acer and Asus.
However, according to a survey conducted by the China Semiconductor Industry Association's design branch, China's IC design industry had total revenue of CNY458.7 billion (US$67.94 billion) in 2021, contributing 43.2% of the entire semiconductor industry's output value, and the number of practitioners in the thriving IC design industry increased from 200,000 in 2020 to 225,000.
As for Taiwan, its IC design industry output was US$44.8 billion, and according to the data of Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA), there are nearly 50,000 practitioners in Taiwan's IC design industry, including 36,000 R&D personnel and 13,500 non-R&D personnel. The figures lead us to question whether we are doing such comparisons of Taiwan and China on the same bases.
The per capita output value of Taiwans IC design industry exceeds far that of China. The total output value of the global IC design industry is only US$189.9 billion, so if China's data is taken at face value, it means China accounts for one-third of the world's total.
If we interpret China's industry from the country's publicly disclosed data, it will be easy to come to misleading conclusions. At present, 49 Chinese IC design companies are publicly traded, which means their information can be more easily accessed, helping researchers better understand China's semiconductor industry structure.
Both Taiwan and South Korea export 60% of their semiconductors to China, while China still produces a low percentage of its own semiconductors for use in its own market. The CEO of SMIC, Haijun Zhao, estimates that percentage at about 5%. This reflects the current situations.