BIZCHINA / Deng Zhonghan
Chip maker breaks market domination
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-01-15 13:48
Chinese high-tech company Vimicro has broken decades-long foreign
dominance in the digital multimedia CPU chip sector with the success of
its Xingguang digital multimedia CPU chip, marking a milestone in China's
integrated circuit (IC) industry, said a top government official.
After five years of development, the made-in-China Xingguang digital
multimedia CPU chip occupies over 40 per cent of the world market and 80
per cent of Chinese sales.
This is a crucial breakthrough for China's integrated circuit (IC)
industry in research and development as well as the industrialization of
core technologies, said Zhang Qi, director of the Electronic Information
Administration Department at the Ministry of Information Industry,.
"China now stands in the upper reaches of the 3C (consumer electronics,
computers and communications) industrial chain and has a say in the
formulation of industrial standards, which will influence related
industrial sectors in the lower reaches,"Zhang added.
By the end of 2003, over 10 million Vimicro Xingguang digital multimedia
CPU chips were sold to 16 foreign nations and regions, including the
United States, Japan, South Korea and some European countries.
A group of leading domestic and overseas IT companies, including
Microsoft, HP, Samsung, Philips, Foxconn, Fujitsu, Legend, China Telecom
and China Netcom, have become clients of Vimicro.
So far, Vimicro's Xingguang digital multimedia CPU chip holds over 200
patent technologies at home and abroad, according to Deng Zhonghan,
president of the Vimicro Corporation.
As a private high-tech enterprise operated by returning overseas
students, Vimicro has benefited from preferential policies offered by the
central government and Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park.
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