On April 22, 2022, the construction of 42 major projects in Dongguan, Guangdong started in the second quarter, with a total investment of about 52.9 billion yuan. Among them, the Guangdong Everbright Research and Manufacturing Center project was officially launched in Liaobu Hengkeng, Dongguan City.

According to reports, the Guangdong Everbright Research and Manufacturing Center project is located in Songshan Lake Ecological Park, Dongguan City, which is located in the intelligent manufacturing and Dongguan new material industry base in the east of Dongguan City. It was put into production, and the sales revenue after full production was about 14.94 billion yuan. The project is expected to lead to the formation of a third-generation semiconductor industry cluster, and help Dongguan City to build an important base for third-generation semiconductor materials and application innovation in South China during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.

Among them, the Guangdong Everbright Third Generation Semiconductor Research and Manufacturing Center Area 1 project is included in the construction of the first phase of the project, with an estimated total investment of up to 4.4 billion yuan, which is close to 50% of the total investment of the first phase of the project. Guangdong Everbright's third-generation semiconductor research and manufacturing center area 1 project mainly includes precision semiconductor equipment manufacturing, gallium nitride substrate production line, gallium nitride device production line, blue-green Mini/MicroLED epitaxial chip production line and supporting special gas factory facilities; It is expected to cover an area of 135,203 square meters and a building area of 283,928 square meters. After completion, it will produce 2-4 inches of gallium nitride substrates, 2-6 inches of GaN on GaN/Si devices, and 4 inches of blue-green MiniLED epitaxial chips.

Guangdong Everbright Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong. Its subsidiary China Gallium Semiconductor is expected to be the main body of the project. Zhongjia Semiconductor was jointly established by Peking University and Guangdong Everbright Group. It is the first domestic company specializing in the production of gallium nitride substrate materials. In February 2018, Zhongjia announced the first trial production of 4-inch self-supporting GaN substrates in China, and is expected to achieve regular mass production by the end of the same year.

It is understood that the investor of this project is Guangdong Everbright Group, a large local private enterprise in Dongguan. Based on wide-bandgap semiconductor materials, it has successively established companies such as China Gallium, Zhongtu, Zhongjing, and Zhongqi, focusing on the development of the third-generation semiconductor industry. The industrialization of projects such as gallium nitride substrates, chips, epitaxial wafers, and advanced displays has been realized. Editor/He Yuting