Kyushu Island in Japan is an important base of Japan's integrated circuit industry. IC industry, also known as microelectronics industry, is the heart of electronic industry, and is called "food" and "energy" of the industry in Japan. In the early 1960s, Japan began to develop the integrated circuit industry, which developed very rapidly. 1990, Japan's integrated circuit market sales reached1300,000 US dollars, accounting for 37.4% of the total world market sales, ranking first and becoming the largest integrated circuit producer in the world. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kyushu Island began to develop IC industry. At present, Kyushu accounts for almost 40% of the national output and 30% of the output value. Known as Japan's "Silicon Island". Kitakyushu was originally an important coal mining and steel production base in Japan. After World War II, the economy developed slowly, and its position in the national economy also fell again and again. Therefore, Kyushu seizes the favorable opportunities at home and abroad, exerts its regional advantages, and vigorously develops the technology-intensive microelectronics industry-integrated circuit industry. Kyushu has a long history of development, developed culture and education, and trained a large number of superb scientific and technological talents. Have a large number of skilled workers and labor force. Agriculture is more developed. Excellent water quality, abundant water and high air cleanliness. Developed transportation, especially air transportation. Six of the seven counties have modern airports. IC products are small in size and have a good investment environment, which has attracted a large number of manufacturers such as Toshiba, Mitsubishi and Nippon Electric to invest and build factories. There are six new science and technology cities in Kyushu: kurume May 7th, sasebo, Kumamoto, Guo Dong, Miyazaki and Kunfen. No matter in terms of living standards, per capita income, wage standards, etc. Kyushu is lower than the three metropolitan areas, which gives it a certain advantage in the competition. Now it has developed into a famous silicon island in Japan and even the world. Kyushu's IC industry focuses on production and assembly, and R&D design is mostly concentrated in Tokyo and Hanshin, which is far from the "Silicon Valley" in the United States, which integrates R&D, production and assembly. The layout of IC industry in Kyushu is mostly based on a local central city, and several industrial clusters are formed near the airport.
Japanese semiconductor product 1/3 comes from Kyushu Island, so it enjoys the reputation of "Japan Silicon Island". There are more than 300 semiconductor manufacturers on the island, and the famous Texas Instruments also set up factories here. In order to cooperate with the development of high technology, Fukuoka, the largest city in Kyushu, built a high-tech park with artificially reclaimed land. Park planning is very good, hospitals, museums, residential areas, deliberately not to leave space for billboards, only to do pleasing greening design. In the soft environment, Fukuoka established Fukuoka Industry (Science &; Technical foundation; IST), 99% funded by the county government, has two main businesses: one is to promote the transformation of research in universities into enterprises and induce new technologies through cooperation between industry, government and universities; Secondly, establish channels for extensive exchanges between the industry and investors, smooth financing channels for enterprises and promote industrial development.
With the prosperity and development of semiconductor industry, research institutions and development bases of IT-related industries are constantly gathering in Kyushu. GMDJapan, Cranfield University Japan Center and other worldwide research institutions and universities have settled in Kyushu, and domestic enterprises such as Hitachi, Sony, Mitsubishi and Fujitsu have also set up research institutes nearby, injecting a steady stream of power into Kyushu's semiconductor industry.