"Core Road" Author: Feng Jinfeng/Guo Qihang Publisher: Machinery Industry Press

"The Core Road: A Book to Understand the Present and Future of the Integrated Circuit Industry" focuses on the development history of the global semiconductor industry and technology, interprets and analyzes the industrial policies of various countries and regions, shows the cruelty and excitement of industrial competition, and makes systematic thinking on the development of my country's semiconductor industry. This book has 7 chapters. The first chapter starts with the development history of the semiconductor industry, introduces some basic concepts, a brief history of industrial development and five major application scenarios, and also presents a panoramic view of the semiconductor industry chain. The second chapter introduces the relevant industrial and technological history of the United States, the birthplace of the semiconductor industry, and discusses its innovation mechanism and foreign strategy. The third chapter depicts the wonderful journey of Japan's ascension to the global semiconductor throne from scratch, and conducts an in-depth analysis of the semiconductor dispute between the United States and Japan and the competitiveness of Japan's semiconductor industry today. The fourth chapter shows the causes and consequences of Europe's focus on the development of semiconductor advantage areas, focusing on the legend of lithography machines. The fifth chapter focuses on how South Korea has become an important force that cannot be ignored in the global semiconductor industry through the single product of memory. The sixth chapter describes the arduous journey of my country's semiconductor development, the current status of core technology development, and the situation in some advantageous fields. Chapter 7 comprehensively analyzes the challenges in the development of my country's semiconductor industry, summarizes the experiences and lessons of semiconductor powers such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, and explains from multiple perspectives that win-win cooperation is the eternal theme of the development of my country's semiconductor industry.

Dr. Feng Jinfeng is a practitioner in the integrated circuit industry. He obtained a double bachelor's degree in engineering, a master's degree in management, and a doctorate in engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Tsinghua University. He is a member of the China-US Outstanding Young Leaders Forum, a visiting professor at the School of Microelectronics of Fudan University, and concurrently serves as the deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Association. He assisted Mr. Wu Jinglian in compiling and publishing "The Silicon Valley Advantage".

Mr. Guo Qihang graduated from the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University. He is currently engaged in semiconductor industry investment. He is familiar with industry technology and structure, and has long-term attention and research on the More Than Moore field, European and American industrial trends, etc.