In recent years, in order to quickly open the mainland market, international chip suppliers have been seeking to merge or cooperate with Taiwan IC design companies, such as image sub’s acquisition of IML, microchip’s acquisition of chuangjie, and Lipu’s cooperation with dialog. Although the industry has heard that Lipu’s cooperation with dialog is likely to be broken, the recent rumors that international chip manufacturers intend to merge Taiwan IC design companies or cooperate with both parties are still not true Jue yu’er, the IC designer of Taiwan Department is playing the game of saltfish turning over.

International chip factories have borrowed the strength of Taiwan factories. In fact, it has been many years since the IC designers of Taiwan were acquired or cooperated by large international chip factories. In the past, Fairchild acquired chongmao, Broadcom acquired yunshuo, Intel invested in Helia, Qingtai and Xinhua, Toshiba investment group, Xinchuang, Samsung Electronics invested in Qingtai, etc., showing the international core Film factory attaches great importance to the strength of Taiwan factory Taiwan IC designers pointed out that in the past, compared with the international chip manufacturers, Taiwan IC designers mainly focused on the fast and complete technical support and service capabilities of Taiwan chip manufacturers in the vertical professional supply chain, and the competitiveness of Taiwan wafer foundry and sealing supply chain can provide more additional service value for foreign chip manufacturers.

In recent years, foreign chip manufacturers have acquired or negotiated cooperation with Taiwan IC designers, the main purpose of which is to focus more on the success of Taiwan IC designers in the upstream and downstream supply chains in the mainland, and to get through the domestic demand and export channels in the mainland. Although foreign chip manufacturers have set up R & D teams and sales bases in the mainland, they still give priority to serving first-line brand manufacturers, so as to further strive for small and medium-sized customers In order to expand the market ecosystem of chip products in mainland China, we need to borrow IC designers from Taiwan.

Taiwan chip factory has advantages in the mainland. At present, in the IT related supply chain in the mainland, Taiwan IC designers are still regarded as Chinese, treated equally with mainland authorities, and can enjoy the protection benefits of the mainland’s independent technology industry. However, for foreign technology industry, the mainland government has not stopped paying attention to the eyes, often in laws, taxes, environmental protection and other regulations Due to the strict inspection of fixed magnifier, product support, market efficiency and other issues, foreign chip suppliers often face the situation of strong dragon and difficult to suppress the local snake when operating the mainland market.

Taiwan’s analog IC supplier said that from Google’s willingness to withdraw from the mainland market, Qualcomm’s anti-monopoly investigation and other cases in the mainland, it can be seen that it is relatively difficult for foreign technology companies to layout the mainland market. As foreign chip suppliers actively want to locate in the mainland market, they are interested in taking advantage of Taiwan’s IC designers who are familiar with the mainland market and supply chain trends as market leaders It has become an important strategy for foreign technology companies to expand the mainland market.

Continue to plan cooperation or merger cases, foreign analog IC suppliers say frankly, Taiwan IC designers have such strong points as quick response, 24-hour non feint, familiarity with transnational cooperation, plus the vertical division of labor advantage of Taiwan’s semiconductor supply chain, and can play a leading role in the mainland’s domestic demand and export market, so that foreign chip manufacturers really intend to try to cooperate with Taiwan IC designers in order to be faster Open up the situation in the mainland market Since 2013, Li Kai has announced to cooperate with dialog, an’en has been acquired by image sub, chuangjie has been acquired by microchip, etc. international chip factories are interested in the benefits of cooperation with Taiwan IC designers, which are mainly based on three major bases: timely service, technical support and mainland access. They hope to make good use of Taiwan semiconductors as well as prepare for the establishment of cross-strait technology supply chain market pipeline The competitive advantage of vertical division of labor in the industry, and then grasp the domestic demand and export market opportunities in the mainland.

Taiwan IC designers said that in the near future, there are rumors that foreign chip suppliers hope to cooperate with Taiwan, or even include Taiwan into their company. In the short term, foreign chip suppliers are still exploring the secrets of the layout of the mainland market, and the enthusiasm for seeking cooperation or merger with Taiwan IC designers will increase unabated.