On August 26, 2018, the Qingdao International Economic Cooperation Zone (Sino-German Ecological Park) Management Committee signed a cooperation agreement on integrated circuit quartz mask substrate projects with Xin En Investment and Hengtong Group in Suzhou. Zhang Rujing, chairman of Xinen (Qingdao) Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd., Cui Genliang, chairman of the board of directors of Hengtong Group, Xu Haijie, deputy director of the Qingdao International Cooperation Zone (China-German Ecological Park) Management Committee, and the tripartite team attended the signing ceremony.
The project intends to use the core (Qingdao) integrated circuit project production base to independently develop and produce a quartz blank mask substrate, which is one of the core components of integrated circuits, to provide strong support for the core chain of the core (Qingdao) integrated circuit project. Domestic IC material market demand. The total planned investment of the project is 230 million yuan, and it is estimated that it will realize an annual operating income of 1.22 billion yuan when it reaches capacity.
It is understood that a blank mask quartz substrate (Mask Blank) is an indispensable and important component in the manufacturing process of integrated circuit chips, and its market share is second only to silicon wafers. At present, this technology is monopolized by a few foreign countries. At present, the core IC (Qingdao) integrated circuit team has reached a cooperation with the domestic quartz material giant Hengtong Group. It will hire the world's top level technical team to jointly establish a project company. After the project is completed, it will get rid of foreign technology monopoly, fill domestic gaps, and greatly promote the development of China's integrated circuit industry.
Hengtong Group is a state-level high-tech innovation company established in 1991. It currently has 45 wholly-owned and holding companies (including 3 listed companies). It is a large-scale system integrator and network service provider in China's optical fiber communications and smart grid. , China's top 500 manufacturing companies, China's top 100 electronic components, China's top 100 electronic information, China's top 50 comprehensive communications companies, China's top 100 most competitive high-tech, China's top 100 private enterprises, top 3 global optical fiber communications, Hengtong The domestic market share of optical fiber is 25%, and the international market share is 15%. In 2017, Hengtong Group ranked 260th in the 2017 Top 500 Chinese Enterprises List.
Qingdao International Economic Cooperation Zone (Sino-German Ecological Park), as a key functional area in Qingdao and the West Coast New District, focuses on the requirements of high-quality development, vigorously cultivates new kinetic energy, and strives to create innovative modern industrial systems represented by integrated circuits.
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