Rui Wang, Chairman of Intel China – Semiconductors are the cornerstone of the digital world, and Moore's Law is the hardcore spirit of the semiconductor industry| WISE2021 King of the New Economy Conference

From December 13th to 15th, the 36Kr WISE 2021 New Economy King Summit was held in Shanghai, and this year we will focus on the theme of "Hardcore Era". "Hardcore" is the challenge and opportunity brought by the current era and the general environment to China's new economy enterprises, on the one hand, enterprises are required to pay attention to technological innovation and find their own "hard core" barriers; on the other hand, enterprises are required to give back to the society and show more "hardcore" responsibilities and responsibilities. As we move from the "application era" of business model innovation to the "hardcore era" of technological innovation, we gathered with hundreds of hard-core enterprises to focus on popular tracks such as macro policies, intelligent manufacturing, semiconductors, new energy, and new consumption, and comprehensively discussed how to build innovation-driven hard-core competitiveness in various fields.

With the theme of "Insisting on Hardcore Innovation to Drive the Digital Economy", Rui Wang, Chairman of Intel China, shared Intel's innovation, thinking and practice in the field of semiconductors. In Wang Rui's view, Intel's decades of "hard core" is not only to control the process at the nanoscale, design focus on extremely microscopic, complex semiconductor square inches, but also to carry out ultra-large-scale manufacturing and industrial chain construction, to meet the global demand for semiconductor technology, stimulate the infinite possibilities of the digital world.

Facing the digital future supported by semiconductors, Intel will rely on the four super technology forces of "ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, infrastructure from the cloud to the edge, and artificial intelligence" to further promote innovation breakthroughs and digital transformation across the industry.

The following is the transcript of Wang Rui's speech, which was compiled and edited by 36Kr:

Hello everyone! I am Rui Wang, Chairman of Intel China, and I am very pleased to participate in the 36Kr WISE2021 King of the New Economy Conference. Today, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you our thinking and practice of "adhering to hard-core innovation and driving the digital economy".

It is a great pity that I was not able to come to Shanghai to attend the conference. Not worried about Shanghai, but worried about coming to Shanghai, whether there is a small star on my itinerary code can return to Beijing, and how many important meetings will be rejected when I return to Beijing. It can be seen that all aspects of our human life and work have undergone profound changes due to the epidemic. It can be said that the depth, breadth and speed of digitalization have been greatly accelerated by the epidemic, which has changed the pattern of the digital economy.

Rui Wang, Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation, Chairman of Intel China

In the new digital world, semiconductors are truly the supporting technology that promotes the digitization of all things, and is the cornerstone of the digital world. All walks of life, all kinds of equipment, are inseparable from semiconductor technology.

We are also seeing an unprecedented increase in the world's demand for semiconductors, and this momentum continues. Among them, China is the world's largest and fastest growing integrated circuit market. In the first three quarters of this year, China's chip production increased by 43.1%, and imports increased by 23.7%. This is a very big opportunity and a very big challenge. Chip shortages are still one of the challenges we face, so we must work together to address them.

When it comes to chips, I believe everyone recognizes that this is really a hard-core technology. Since our theme today is "hardcore", I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about a veritable hardcore company.

As a leader in the semiconductor industry, inspired by Moore's Law, Intel has been innovating for decades, step by step. As you can see, Intel has continued to innovate since its inception in 1968. This hard-core innovation is reflected in Intel engineers' process control at the nanoscale, and the design is focused on extremely microscopic, complex semiconductor squares.

At the same time, Intel can carry out ultra-large-scale manufacturing and industrial chain construction to meet the global demand for semiconductor technology and stimulate the infinite possibilities of the digital world. This challenge of focusing on both micro and macro fully demonstrates the hard-core spirit of the entire semiconductor industry, which is Moore's Law.

We start from the most common raw material sand in nature to manufacture the most sophisticated product in the world - chips. The manufacture of a chip requires an extremely complex process, in the world's cleanest chip factory through hundreds of processes such as lithography, plating, polishing, detection, etc., and then cutting, packaging, testing and other processes, in order to turn the golden sand into a processor containing billions of transistors.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the world's first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, which laid the foundation for modern microprocessor computing. Back in 1971, Intel's world-changing 4004 chip had only 2300 transistors, and this year we launched the 12th generation Ofte Core processors, with billions of transistors, which is a performance boost of more than 5000 times.

Transistors are getting smaller and smaller, and we are making more and more scale. In order to cope with the growing demand for semiconductors, we continue to invest and deploy globally to ensure a stable supply chain. Intel's manufacturing network spans the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and China is an important part of it.

Intel's Chengdu facility is Intel's largest chip packaging and test base and one of the world's largest chip preprocessing and high-end test centers. More than half of Intel's global mobile processors and more than 70% of the chip semi-finished products are produced in Intel Chengdu. This means that more than 50% of the world's mobile PCs are made in Chengdu.

Our global manufacturing layout not only serves itself, but is also committed to making greater contributions to the entire industry and the world.

In the digital age, we have four superpowers: ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. They are driving innovation and breakthroughs across a wide range of industries, driving digital change more deeply.

Facing the digital future supported by semiconductors, Intel focuses on leading products, open platforms, and large-scale manufacturing, and continuously strengthens its advantages through these three aspects, expands our comprehensive strength, and drives the further development and sustained growth of the industry.

Our business really comes from sand, and all the value on top of that is created by our people. As such, world-class talent is also Intel's most valuable resource. We have more than 116,000 employees in 53 countries, of which 89% are technicians, and more than 15,000 software engineers.

In addition to talent, our ongoing investment in R&D also ensures that continuous innovation is possible, with Intel investing $13.6 billion in R&D in 2020 alone. At the same time, we continue to reap the fruits of innovation, with around 70,000 patents worldwide.

We use a GROVE culture that emphasizes execution and inspires people to innovate more. We believe that: from the sand, the achievement is in people.

Bringing together every employee, we continue to expand our portfolio of products and services to provide end-to-end solutions that better meet the needs of the digital world. We continue to strengthen our execution, in every field we participate in, consolidate the leading position of innovation, provide better products and services, and provide greater help and support for industry partners.

Since Intel CEO Pat Kissinger took office, Intel has run a marathon at sprint speed, more open, faster, and innovative. Intel will continue to explore the infinite possibilities in the periodic table, continue to release the magical power of silicon, and open a new chapter in the "hardcore era". Next, I will introduce you in more detail:

In March, we announced our IDM 2.0 strategy. This strategy consists of three parts: first, to leverage Intel's global internal factory network to serve customers; second, to expand the use of third-party foundries to ensure optimal supply; and third, Intel foundry to serve the global market.

With a combination of Intel's leading packaging and process technologies and world-class IP intellectual property, the IDM 2.0 strategy is Intel's unique strength. We will use IDM2.0 to design the best products, and at the same time use the best way to produce and manufacture, so as to better meet the growing global demand.

In July, we unveiled Intel's most detailed process and packaging technology roadmap ever, ensuring that by 2025 process performance will once again lead the industry. Among them, Intel 20A will open the era of semiconductor Amy with two breakthrough technologies of RibbonFET and PowerVia.

In August, major technical architecture changes and innovations were released at intel architecture day, aiming at CPU, GPU, and IPU architectures, building oneAPI, and driving data centers, edges, and clients into the next era of computing. This further strengthens our hard-software collaboration to drive heterogeneous computing through XPU+oneAPI to better address the computing challenges of the digital world."

In October, at the Intel On Technology Innovation Summit, we re-embraced developers at the source, emphasizing our commitment to the developer community and Intel's developer-first philosophy across software and hardware, and launched new tools, technologies, and products for developers. This is an important embodiment of our establishment of an open ecology, adhering to the ecological philosophy of "water conservancy and everything without dispute", we will continue to expand the depth and breadth of industrial ecology and accelerate the digitalization process.

In addition, as a company that leads technological innovation, Intel integrates the responsibility concept of technology for good into the company's strategy and operations, penetrates into the behavior and perseverance of employees, and jointly responds to the major challenges facing mankind.

We also put our commitment to sustainable development through every aspect of our production and operations, and actively support China's "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality". This year compared with 20 years ago, we emit 80% less carbon dioxide per chip we produce; at the same time, we are vigorously promoting green computing, developing energy-efficient products, supporting the construction of green data centers and 5G base stations; and we are moving towards 2030 goals such as "100% renewable energy and efficient use of water resources".

As a global TOP partner of the Olympic Games, Intel is using innovative technologies such as AI, 5G, VR, and drones to bring a new experience and extraordinary smart Olympic Games to athletes, participants, and staff around the world. Two months from now, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be celebrated, and we are helping to realize the Smart Olympics and promote the Olympic spirit in more ways.

What Intel is committed to accomplishing is creating the technology that will change the world for the benefit of everyone on the planet. Thank you!