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The scale of research and development (R&D) support in the semiconductor, display, and embedded software (SW) fields, which is considered the basis of innovation for digital new deal and digital transformation, has been confirmed. While fostering the system semiconductor industry is counted as a key task, the budget is 2321 billion won.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on the 30th that it will be pursuing the planning of new R&D projects in 2021 by revealing 114 key technology development tasks in the semiconductor, display, and embedded SW fields and listening to expert opinions.
The total budget for the project is 2321 billion won. About 70 new projects were finalized in January of next year after collecting expert opinions, and a total of 52.5 billion won was decided to be provided.
The next year’s technology development task in the semiconductor, display, and embedded SW field is to expand demand and create markets according to the changes of the times such as post-corona and digital new deal spread such as artificial intelligence semiconductor, rollable, augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) display It was planned with the focus on this expected next-generation core technology.
First of all, semiconductors support full-cycle R&D of system semiconductors such as sensors and artificial intelligence semiconductors.
A full-cycle system from sensors that collect data to cultivate the system semiconductor industry, which is expected to grow continuously according to the expansion of advanced technology markets such as 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and autonomous driving, to AI semiconductors for calculating, processing, and controlling large amounts of data. Discover semiconductor development tasks.
In addition, in order to secure the competitiveness of domestic fabless companies that have a weak growth base due to their small size, we will establish a customized R&D support system for each growth stage, from startups to global companies.
In addition, a number of consortiums initially participate in tasks with various development approaches and high technical difficulty, but introduce a new competitive R&D method that supports the next step only for one consortium that produced the highest performance through intermediate evaluation. I did it.
The display field supports the development of next-generation displays such as form factor and AR/VR.
It plans to support the development of promising technologies that will lead the form factor display market, such as commercialization technologies for innovative products such as rollable displays and technologies related to devices (oxide semiconductors) suitable for flexible displays.
In particular, in order to preoccupy the global market of AR/VR micro-displays, it intensively discovered core technology development tasks necessary for commercialization, from related materials to optical systems, controllers, standardization and human impact assessment.
In addition, in order to stabilize the value chain of the display industry, support projects for the development of display material parts and core equipment, which have relatively weak domestic industrial infrastructure, are also promoted.
Embedded SW supports the strengthening of SW competitiveness to accelerate the digital transformation of the industry.
The embedded SW field will support the development of industrial artificial intelligence systems that can be commonly used in various industrial parts and equipment and intelligent electronic component technologies that can be commercialized early.
In the second week of January of next year, the Ministry of Industry will announce a detailed project proposal (RFP) based on the opinions of experts on the subject matters. Is expected.
An official from the Ministry of Industry said, “Next year will be an important year for the recovery of economic vitality, realization of the digital new deal, and digital transformation.” “He said.