2019年12月17日星期二

Chinese companies enter the semiconductor storage market, the new forces will soon start the patent war

Looking at the memory market in 2017, the price increase of SSD and dram has promoted the market demand, and the dominance of the storage market has become a new hot spot for all countries. Now that China’s storage power is rising, what comes after it is to face upcoming patent issues.

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In 2017, when prices for DRAM and 3D NAND increased wildly, memory became hot. As China's three memory camps gradually began to produce transcripts, Chinese companies will undoubtedly become a new force in the semiconductor storage market in the near future.

However, when Chinese companies begin to produce storage products, they will face the inspection of the market and the subsequent patent disputes.

The DRAM plans of the two major camps of Jinhua, Hefei and Hefei, have progressed from silence to gradually. Fujian Jinhua has an alliance with UMC's strategy, and the Hefei camp also has Beijing Zhaoyi's innovative cooperation in the development of 19nm process DRAM technology. Both camps expect that the chip will begin at the end of this year, causing high concern in the market and whether it will Memory vendors pose a threat.

At the end of 2017, Micron has sued Jinhua. On December 4, the former filed a civil lawsuit in the Northern Federal Court of California under the "Defend Trade Secrets Act" and the "Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organisation Act" to sue the Taiwan foundry company UMC (UMC). ) and Fujian Jinhua stole its trade secrets and Other misconduct. A Micron spokesperson confirmed the lawsuit and said: "Micron is actively protecting its global intellectual property and will use all available legal weapons to resolve all misappropriation."

The ICInsights president and CEO Bill McClean said that he does not know how Chinese companies can produce memory chips without touching patents owned by Samsung, Hynix and Micron. When these Chinese companies started selling memory chips, it was time for major lawsuits to come. He said that once they start production, Samsung, Hynix and Micron will have the opportunity to reverse engineer these products and look for evidence sufficient to prove that their patents have been violated.

Recently, Li Peixi, general manager of Taiwan's South Asia Branch, said that if these Chinese companies do not get technical licenses, it is difficult to make competitive products. If it is a product that infringes a patent, it may not even be used by local brand companies because it may face many legal issues in the future. He emphasized that with his many years of experience working in the semiconductor industry, most of the products that have not been technically authorized to produce are the companies that are operating in a formal manner. In order to avoid possible future troubles, most of them are afraid to use them and dare to use them. Most of them are small-scale "cunning companies."

Li Peixi's extreme view holds that China's independent R&D memory cannot influence the market in the short term. He said that from the perspective of manufacturing and R&D, the latter's autonomous storage technology R&D plans cannot be made competitive products in the short term without the authorization of external technology.

Therefore, although China’s storage power is rising, Li Peixi said that he still does not feel that he has a particularly new threat to the mainland competitors.

In recent years, South Asia Branch has actively cultivated the mainland market. Currently, mainland customers account for as much as 30% of the total revenue. Asked whether it was possible for Nan Yake to align with the mainland manufacturers, Li Peiying's reply was: "I didn't even think about it!"

Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of the China Mobile Phone Alliance, once emphasized that with the gradual mass production of China's memory industry, the patent war will surely erupt. However, it must be said that China will therefore be limited and not absolute. The key is to enhance its core technology. In any case, not only the storage sector, patents are the issues that the rising Chinese semiconductor companies must immediately address.

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