The speed ranking of international chip manufacturers is 1st in Japan and 3rd from the bottom in Chinese mainland
Chips are the cornerstone of all scientific and technological progress, whether it is information technology or digitalization, it is inseparable from chips, so in recent years, the world is crazy to build chip factories, the United States is under construction, China is building, Japan is building, Europe is building, India is building, South Korea is building...
Now the question is: which country or region produces chips the fastest? Which region has the slowest chip production speed? Some time ago, some institutions made statistics and rankings on the global chip production speed in the 30 years from 1990 to 2020.
Over the past 30 years, 635 new chip factories have been built around the world, with an average construction period of 682 days.
The chart below shows that it took Japan just 584 days, or less than two years, to build a new chip factory.
South Korea followed with 620 days and Taiwan in third place with 654 days; All three are growing faster than average.
Europe and the Middle East followed with 690 days. Chinese mainland ranked fifth with 701 days.
In comparison, the U.S. took 736 days, one month more than China, and Southeast Asia took 781 days, more than two years.
What factors will affect the construction of chip factories? First of all, there is the question of funding, without which it is simply impossible to build so quickly. The second is the number of local workers and the capacity to build, but China is known to have the best infrastructure.
Of course, this also involves the import of semiconductor equipment and the supply of industrial chains. After all, without proper equipment and ** chains, empty industrial plants are not enough.
However, it must be admitted that the construction speed of chip factories has become an important indicator to measure the level of a country's or region's semiconductor industry to some extent.
From this point of view, although Japan has not performed well in the chip manufacturing industry, it still has a strong comprehensive strength, while Chinese mainland, although it has tried to catch up in recent years, is still far from the world's first, let alone the United States.
Of course, some people think that this is only the 2020 number, that China has grown so fast in recent years that it is already the fastest growing city in the world, but the truth is unknown to anyone.