High-definition chip development prospects

After years of development, security chips have made rapid progress. Both the technology and the market have achieved great success. In particular, domestic chips have achieved a dominant position. Looking into the future, the development of security chips will become more rapid and will play an increasingly important role in the security industry chain. For security chip companies, opportunities and challenges coexist, and only when they are close to users and rational development can they maintain long-term progress. And steady growth.

First, the development status of China's chip industry For many years, the chip has been restricting the development of China's electronics industry, in order to break this bottleneck, how many generations of unremitting efforts, and strive to get rid of the "foreign chip" constraints. After more than 30 years of hard work, the Chinese people finally saw the dawn of the national chip industry. According to statistics, there are as many as 1,188 chip companies registered in "China Manufacturing Network." The growth rate of Chinese chip companies is also alarming. Once in a day, four new chip companies were registered. It can be said that China has launched a "chip business boom." According to statistics, there are nearly 1,000 "chip design" companies that specially design chips and employ about 20 to 50 people.

At present, China's IC industry has developed rapidly. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, China’s integrated circuit production increased from 26.11 billion to 65.3 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 20.1%. Sales revenue increased from 70.21 billion yuan to 144.02 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 15.4%. Among them, the chip manufacturing industry grew from 23.29 billion yuan to 44.71 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 14%. Ms. Wang Qinsheng, director of IC Design Branch of China Semiconductor Industry Association, pointed out that from the perspective of the design industry, it is divided into three industrial bases in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Beijing-Tianjin region, and each has its own strengths. Among them, the Yangtze River Delta region is the region with the most abundant and complete production chain, and has been developing rapidly in the past two years. The Pearl River Delta region is the frontier of applications and markets, and is the region where Chinese industries are in line with international standards. The advantages of the Beijing-Tianjin region are: Many scientific research talents and strong design capabilities. At present, Pudong has become the main force of the chip industry in mainland China. The leap-forward development of Pudong's chip industry has increased the manufacturing level of Chinese chips and enabled domestic related industries to initially have the ability to compete with other companies in the world.

Regarding the development prospects of China's chip industry, the “Decision to Accelerate the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries” announced by the State Council at the end of last year clearly defined the chip industry as a core basic industry. This year marks the beginning of the implementation of the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan". How to insist on the application of the whole machine as the traction, and take the market as the guide, focuses on promoting technological innovation, mastering core technologies, developing superior products, forming innovative features, and adjusting product structure, Cultivating and forming enterprises with international competitiveness and realizing the rapid development of industrial groups has become the direction of future development of the chip industry.

Second, the development of the industry is facing many challenges Although the current security chip market is developing rapidly and the outlook is optimistic, but also faced a lot of development challenges. The first is how the speed of the chip can quickly follow the development of products and industries. Current security product roadmap trends are generally determined by security chips. Chips are not released and corresponding products are basically not released. However, from the perspective of the current security industry, there will be a series of new product demands that will be born in about half a year. At present, the security chip's update cycle is generally a little over a year. This has caused the situation that the demand has been waiting for the chip. How can the development of the chip match the development of the demand and bring a lot of pressure on the chip company, because it means that the labor cost is increased by a multiple, and the market is replaced too soon. Frequently, it also wastes output value. On the other hand, the security industry has become more and more subdivided into requirements. The situation that one chip can be used on most products is now difficult to meet the needs of users. How to subdivide the chip and target it to meet the needs of users is also very difficult. A difficult problem.

The second is how to guide the healthy growth of the industrial chain. Due to the particularity and criticality of the security chip, the market behavior of the security chip manufacturer can easily affect the development of the security industry. How to protect the market while expanding the market is to require a lot of chip companies considerate. The cost control of the chip is also a challenge. At present, the number of major manufacturers of security chips is small, but there is great pressure to compete with each other. In addition, the pressure from terminal manufacturers due to the decline in the overall profits of the security industry, the cost of intellectual property is also a Great expenses. With the demand for energy-saving, environmental protection and low power consumption, relevant environmental protection agencies are increasingly demanding the power consumption of security products, and they are also one of the major indicators affecting product exports. Contradictory to this is that performance improvement is often based on increased energy consumption.

Third, high-definition chip application prospects For the current network camera chip solutions, on the one hand, SoC chip solution companies only have enough related technologies to deal with more challenges in the future; on the other hand, the network camera is not the more features more and more Well, it is fundamental to meet the needs of customers quickly and easily at the current engineering level.

With the development of millions of high-definition network cameras, the chip has more and more functions. At the same time, the degree of integration has become higher and higher, and as a result, peripheral devices will become less and less, and power consumption will become lower and lower. In order to realize the collocation of the system, the digital high-definition camera needs not only an image sensor suitable for security applications, but also has the support of decoding chip technology for the back-end docking, so the performance of the back-end decoding display chip also needs a greater breakthrough.

The development of the chip of the million HD network camera cannot be regarded as the development of the network camera. What deserves more attention is the improvement of the series of supporting products. If you can start from the chip design part to consider how close to the actual security engineering projects, this will make more than one million HD network cameras.