IC is a new generation fast-paced, high-tech products. From today's point of view of international market structure, IC enterprises compete fiercely on ownership of intellectual property rights ,multinational global industrial organization has shown the characteristics of an oligopoly, IC multinational sales, manufacturing, research and development towards the global layout direction.
From the industrial output value, in 2000, total sales of China's IC industry was only 18.62 billion yuan, while  sales in 2010 was more than 130 billion yuan ,which was almost 7 times in ten years times, the average annual growth rate was 21.7%, industrial growth rate was always higher 10% than the global IC industry growth, market share accounting for the global IC increased to 8.5% in 2009 from 1.2% in 2000.
From the industrial scale, from 2000 to 2009, the global IC market was fluctuating around the $ 200 billion, according to predicts from the China Semiconductor Industry Association,by 2015, the global IC market is expected to reach $ 270 billion.
From the export situation, in 2005 China's total exports of integrated circuits and microelectronic components reached $ 14.387 billion, up 30.9%,in 2006 China's total exports of integrated circuits and microelectronic components reached $ 21.306 billion, up 48.1%,in 2007 exports of China's IC reached $ 23.541 billion, up 16.1%, from January to October in 2008, China's IC exports totaled $ 20.75 billion, an increase of 7.8%. The market growth of global consumer electronics, network communications, automotive electronics provide more room for China's exports of integrated circuits.
Over the past decade the focus of the global IC market was shifted gradually from Europe to Asia. In 2001the global IC market was basically in North America, Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific quarter of the world. Earthquake in Japan in early 2011 had serious negative effects on Japanese IC industry which has brought new opportunities for the development of China's IC industry .Ten years later, China's IC market has become the world's largest IC consumer market and the main global IC giant battlefield.From the applicated structure of global IC,IC has market decline in the computer field, but with rapid growth in consumer electronics, network communications, automotive electronics and other embedded fields, it will slowly step from the computer-based products into the embedded driven post-PC era. This change will help China's IC business grasp opportunity, play their strengths in consumer electronics, network communications, automotive electronics and other embedded.