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2 The Global Research Landscape
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From page 17...
... bilateral trade revenues examines China's growing role as a major consumer and from U.S. exports and imports of advanced electronics supplier of semiconductors, as well as its contribution to and technology products critical to the computing the global semiconductor value chain.
From page 18...
... For in particular, Asia. For example, while showing example, while the United States maintains a significant relatively few contributions to conference papers, China lead over Europe and Asia in paper contributions at continues to make significant contributions to U.S.­ semiconductor and nanoscale devices conferences, its China trade revenues (discussed in Section 2.4)
From page 19...
... dollars, and collaborations. The network graphs show that between the fraction of the global semiconductor market.
From page 20...
... ; and IEDM and ISSCC (semiconductor devices and circuits)
From page 21...
... , the ARM instruction set capability, 6 fabless semiconductor companies make the dominates the mobile computing space. In addition to the list, all of which are from the United States.
From page 22...
... Appendix F, are correlated with a nation's current commercial competitiveness, is a complex question, 2.3.2 Computing Hardware and Software especially when the lag between research discovery and Commercialization commercialization can be substantial and global information flow makes research results widely In addition to assessing nations' competitive posture available. Similarly, the interplay between a country's in the commercialization of semiconductor technologies, research prowess and its educational systems affect insight can also be gained from monitoring the world's global talent flow and retention in subtle and complex largest computing hardware (including semiconductors, ways.
From page 23...
... THE GLOBAL RESEARCH LANDSCAPE 23 TABLE 2-2 Largest Semiconductor Companies by Revenue (1995-2010) Company Country of Origin 1995 Rank 2000 Rank 2005 Rank 2010 Rank Intel USA 1 1 1 1 Samsung South Korea 6 4 2 2 Toshiba Japan 3 2 4 3 Texas Instruments USA 7 3 3 4 Renesas Japan N/A N/A 7 5 SK Hynix South Korea N/A 14 11 6 STMicroeletronics France, Italy N/A 6 5 7 Micron USA 18 10 12 8 Qualcomm USA N/A N/A 16 9 Broadcom USA N/A N/A 20 10 Elpida Japan N/A N/A N/A 11 AMD USA N/A 16 15 12 Infineon Germany N/A 8 6 13 Sony Japan N/A 20 13 14 Panasonic Japan N/A N/A N/A 15 Freescale USA N/A N/A 10 16 NXP Netherlands 11 9 9 17 Marvell USA N/A N/A N/A 18 MediaTek Taiwan N/A N/A N/A 19 NVIDIA USA N/A N/A N/A 20 NEC Japan 2 5 8 N/A Matsushita Japan 13 17 14 N/A Sharp Japan 19 19 17 N/A Rohm Japan N/A N/A 18 N/A IBM Microelectronics USA 12 18 19 N/A Motorola USA 5 7 N/A N/A Mitsubishi Japan 9 11 N/A N/A Hitachi Japan 4 12 N/A N/A Agere USA N/A 13 N/A N/A Fujitsu Japan 8 15 N/A N/A Hyundai South Korea 10 N/A N/A N/A SGS Thompson France, Italy 14 N/A N/A N/A Siemens Germany 15 N/A N/A N/A LG South Korea 16 N/A N/A N/A Sanyo Japan 17 N/A N/A N/A National Semiconductor USA 20 N/A N/A N/A Data compiled from www.isuppli.com (2000, 2005, 2010)
From page 24...
... Census Bureau Advanced nology, electronics, flexible manufacturing, information and Technology Product (ATP) trade data allows a closer communication technology (ICT)
From page 25...
... . As a result, China held the 15 From the Code 4 and Code 5 data, the committee analyzed import and export products associated with advanced computing.
From page 26...
... Census Bureau Advanced Technology Product trade data. Technology Product trade data FIGURE 2-4 Total value of U.S.
From page 27...
... . 2.4.4 Summary of Trade Data Analysis Finally, with regard to China's position in the global semiconductor value chain, the trade data analysis The overall picture that emerges from the analysis of suggests that while the China market increases in trade data is that the United States has kept its leading importance, its domestic semiconductor industry position as a supplier of leading-edge semiconductors, as continues to play a secondary role.
From page 28...
... However, although no Chinese-owned contributions (via conference papers) are low relative to semiconductor companies are among the top 10 suppliers the United States and other leaders like Japan, Section to either the worldwide or Chinese market, China's 2.4 shows that China is exhibiting increased domestic semiconductor market has experienced competitiveness as a strong consumer and supplier of significant growth, increasing from U.S.
From page 29...
... While China's IC design industry continues to In the last several years, China has steadily increased experience strong growth, it lags behind the United its position in the global semiconductor value chain -- States, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea in terms of process particularly as a consumer of semiconductor devices. technology and design line width.
From page 30...
... While these early data suggest a strong U.S. position, a Similarly, it is questionable whether China can sustain its more thorough investigation is necessary.23 increasing share of total worldwide wafer production as The advanced technology product trade data its leading foundries (e.g., SMIC, Shougang NEC analyses indicate that China is increasingly becoming a Electronics, and HeJian Technology)


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