Hong Kong Venture Capital Pool 1996-1998（四）.pptVIP

Aims and Objective To provide total one-stop service to IC design companies from design start to production release To help IC design companies in the whole new product development process flow To attract worldwide IC Design companies to move to Hong Kong IC Design Is Important One of the most important technologies enabling high value-added electronic manufacturing industry Hong Kong has a few distinctively advantages over other countries in developing into a major international IC design centre Hong Kong’s Advantages Geographically close to PRC where… One of the biggest production centres in the world Has a very strong demand for IC High accessibility to latest market information worldwide through superb communication systems A robust financial market to help companies raise project funds Has a strong legislative regime for protection of intellectual property Major Successful Factors for IC Design Industry Time to market Lowest possible cost Deliver workable IC designs to end users We provide the necessary “soft” infrastructure support for the IC design industry Quality Infrastructure and Shared Support Facilities IC Design Data Centre for design data base storage Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Centre IC Development Support MPW (Multi-Project Wafer) Wafer Shuttle Service Probe and Test Development Centre Reliability and Failure Analysis Lab IC Designer Training Centre Target End Users and IC Designs HKSTP tenants, incubatees, IC companies who have RD investments in Hong Kong plus strategic partners Small to medium size companies and incubatees Mixed signal / analog / RF IC designs using 0.18 / 0.25um process technologies Initial focus of the Centre: To support mixed signal / analog / RF IC designs with upgrade capability to support SOC designs within 2 years Data Center Provides a number of high end powerful computing servers shared among end users The management of Data Centre will be outsourced to an experienced neutral third party: To enable right and stri