The U.S. ranks first in semiconductor patents, but what about China? The 2023 report was announced
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The development of every industry will pay great attention to patents, and only by having more patent rights can we gain greater competitive advantages. From the standpoint of a country, which country has more patents in a certain field, then it basically controls the dominance of the market.
The United States unilaterally launched a chip war, and even shifted its attention to the issue of obtaining patents in the semiconductor industry. Now, reports on semiconductor patents for 2023 are out: up to 160,000 in the United States, and what about China?
Semiconductor Patents, Annual Report 2023.
In the fifties of the 20th century, Jack Kirby was an American scientist who invented the world's first integrated circuit. The advent of this process marks the beginning of the semiconductor industry and lays a good foundation for the further development of the semiconductor process in the future.
Since then, the United States has invested more and more in the semiconductor industry, and chip giants such as Intel and Nvidia have settled in the United States, occupying a dominant position in the global CPU and GPU. The United States has been openly cooperating for more than half a century, and the chips made are all over the world, and American chips are also all over the Chinese market.
However, with the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry, the United States has also begun to be anxious, and various restrictions have emerged one after another, and many Chinese companies have to speed up their research and development because of the US chip ban, forcing Chinese companies to continue to accumulate their core patents. Now, let's take a look at the semiconductor patent situation in the United States in 2023.
According to Anaqua, a intellectual property management agency called Anaqua, a total of 347874 semiconductor patents were filed worldwide in 2023, of which the United States topped the list with 162557, an increase of 18% from 2022.
Japan with 40,960, China with 28,979, South Korea in 4th and 5th place, with 905 and Russia, respectively.
The U.S. remains the country that files the most semiconductor patents; From a business perspective, five of the world's top 10 companies are from the United States, or half.
Trends in semiconductor patent applications.
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of rapid growth and high competition. In order to maintain their competitive advantage, companies are constantly innovating and protecting them in the form of patents. This has led to an increasing number of patent applications in the field of semiconductors.
The U.S. policy and investment in the semiconductor industry, China's chip self-sufficiency rate has reached 70%, which has played a role in promoting the increase in the number of applications. The United States is the largest in the world in terms of current patent filings in the semiconductor field, with 16,000 "cliff" applications. While patents are important, they are not a panacea.
Just as Samsung holds the most ten semiconductor patents in the world, TSMC still has 59% of the chip manufacturing market. China is only the third largest patent application in the semiconductor sector, but the series of advances it has brought have had a significant impact.
For example, Loongson Zhongke, on the basis of the self-developed Loongson 3A6000, is not subject to foreign technology restrictions; Huawei's Kirin 9000 S chip is through the domestic ** chain, from manufacturing to listing.
With continuous accumulation, China's breakthrough in chip technology will lay the foundation for a more stable industrial base that is not inferior to the world.
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