God gives the nuts but he does not crack them - German proverb
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China is set to flood the world with chips
AFTER THE CHINESE semiconductor market dipped in 2009, the industry is expected to be major force in the world markets next year.
According to bean counters at Isuppli, China's semiconductor market is expected to rebound vigorously as exports of electronic products recover from the global economic crisis.
Sales of Chinese semiconductors will decrease to $68 billion in 2009, down 6.7 per cent from $72.9 billion in 2008.
While this sounds bad for China's semiconductor makers, they actually have been doing a lot better than other chipmakers, as the semiconductor industry as a whole suffered a 16.5 per cent decline this year.
However the Chinese government's economic stimulus package and the country's own domestic electronics market rebound in the first quarter seem set to turn China's chip market around.
Kevin Wang, director of China research for Isuppli, said that there has been a recovery in semiconductor demand that limited the decline in 2009 and set the stage for a return to double-digit growth in 2010.
He predicted that the China semiconductor market will grow by 17.8 per cent in 2010 to reach $80.1 billion.
Next year China's consumer electronics segment will improve along with the global economy. Then Chinese exports of chips and other electronics goods are expected to rise 16.3 per cent to $17.8 billion. µ
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I believe that China's corporate espionage and technological theft is minor compared to the large scale 'handover and transfer' of semiconductor designs, manufacturing- equipment and processes by the profit hungry US semiconductor corporations under the government umbrella.
Even the lead free solder will be full of lead.
That's great, millions of standard ICs pumping out of China like every other low-level manufactured product they seem to produce. Is this the meaning of success and growth--just manufacturing stuff for other people?
By chips, I am assuming they mean general purpose semiconductors and not CPU's. For starters the last Chinese CPU I read about was 90% ripped off MIPS. Also I know China didn't sell tens of billions of dollars worth of CPUs.
What I do want to know is if they are including Taiwan or just mainland China.
I wonder if the chips are lead based?
China's corporate espionage and technological theft is firing on all cylinders.