IICIE 2027: International Integrated Circuit Innovation Expo

What is International Integrated Circuit Innovation Expo (IICIE)?

IICIE (IC创新博览会) is the chip-industry show in Shenzhen World's big September electronics week. It runs on the same dates as CIOE, the photonics fair, and elexcon, the electronics and embedded show, with one e-pass covering all three. IICIE covers the whole integrated-circuit chain: chip design, wafer fabs and foundries, packaging and test, semiconductor equipment, materials and precision parts, plus compound semiconductors (SiC, GaN, gallium oxide) and power devices. It grew out of SEMI-e, the Shenzhen International Semiconductor Exhibition & IC Industry Innovation Expo, which CIOE and the IC Innovation Alliance hosted in the same slot in 2025. The Shenzhen World calendar lists Shenzhen Herong Zhongxin Exhibition as the 2026 organizer.

In September 2026 the organizer counted 935 exhibitors on 50,000 m², 86,452 professional visitors and 24 conferences and events. The three shows together drew 325,810 visitors over three days. Memory makers, foundries and packaging houses stood out in 2026, as chip prices rose on AI demand. A media walk-through named Hua Hong, Nexchip, XMC, Tongfu Microelectronics, Huatian, China Resources Microelectronics, GigaDevice, Dosilicon, Biwin, Montage Technology, Sanechips and Unigroup Guoxin among the exhibitors. They showed Chiplet and 3D-stacking platforms, hybrid bonding, HBM and CPO packaging, NAND/NOR flash, MCUs and PCIe/CXL interconnect chips. Themed areas included automotive optical communication, an AI + chips area, a RISC-V ecosystem zone, a chip-design pavilion, a lithography area tied to the IWAPS workshop, and a universities and research institutes zone.

Visitors are engineers, buyers and managers from chip users and makers. The organizer's list of visiting companies includes foundries and memory makers such as SMIC, Samsung, SK hynix and YMTC, chip designers such as Qualcomm, NVIDIA, HiSilicon and MediaTek, equipment firms such as NAURA and AMEC, and manufacturers such as Luxshare and Han's Laser. Conferences in 2026 included the 10th International Workshop on Advanced Patterning Solutions (IWAPS), the JW Insights global semiconductor analyst conference, an automotive optical communication forum and an AI innovation application forum. Conference registration is free.

The Pearl River Delta buys a huge volume of chips, with phone, PC, appliance, EV and electronics makers all buying locally. IICIE is where Shenzhen meets the domestic chip supply chain. Go if you source chips, foundry or packaging services, or semiconductor equipment and materials. It also makes sense if you're already at CIOE, since the IC halls are in the same venue. The same team is taking an Asia semiconductor show (ASE 2027) to Singapore in March 2027.