On May 27, the Mount Everest 2020 mountaineering team successfully reached the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. During the summit, the coverage of Mount Everest with 5G signals attracted many people’s attention. In the view of foreign media, China’s 5G has not been affected by the new crown epidemic and is still developing rapidly.

Japan Economic News reported on the 26th that the important material of global semiconductor products-the silicon wafer market has recently shown signs of recovery.

Japanese media quoted statistics from the International Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Organization (SEMI) that from January to March this year, the global semiconductor wafer shipment area for semiconductors was 2.92 billion square inches, an increase of 2.7% over the previous quarter. Although it has not reached the level of the same period last year, this is an increase in the six quarters since July-September 2018.

Wafer is the basic material for manufacturing semiconductor devices. Because it is a crystalline material and it is round, so we call it wafer. After a series of manufacturing processes, wafers form extremely tiny circuit structures, which are cut, packaged, tested into chips, and then widely used in various electronic devices.

Japanese media believe that the wafer market has been showing negative growth since the second half of 2018, but the rapid development of China’s 5G business has promoted the global wafer market.

American institutions: China’s four major brands have more than 60% of the global share of 5G mobile phones

The US market research agency report shows that in the first quarter of this year, China accounted for four of the top five global 5G mobile phone shipments-the combined market share of these four brands exceeded 60%. The agency analyzed that the vast majority of Chinese brand 5G mobile phones are sold in the domestic market, showing that the epidemic has not caused a significant impact on China’s demand for 5G equipment.

In addition to mobile phones, the number of base stations is undoubtedly an important indicator to measure the development of 5G. At the “Minister Channel” of the two sessions of the country held on the 25th, Miao Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that since the beginning of this year, China’s 5G has accelerated the construction speed, and now it is about to increase weekly more than 10,000 base stations.

The investment plans announced by the three major operators earlier this year show that China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom will spend more than 180 billion yuan in 5G capital expenditure in 2020, and plan to build 500,000 5G base stations.

On the 27th, the Mount Everest 2020 mountaineering team successfully summited Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. One of the highlights of this year’s Everest elevation measurement is that there is also a smooth and stable 5G signal at Everest. The Global Mobile Communications System Association, which is composed of thousands of operators around the world, predicts that by 2020, China will account for 70% of global 5G connections, and China has firmly made itself a global leader in 5G.