Identification and Evolution of Core Technologies in the Chip Field Based on Patent Networks

Currently, the global technological competition pattern is accelerating its restructuring, and chip technology, as a core technology for national strategic security and industrial competition, faces a serious bottleneck that seriously restricts the construction of China’s industrial chain security and innovation ecology. A “recognition-evolution” collaborative analysis system was proposed in this study using patent data as a carrier. Firstly, a PKCN-BERT-LDA fusion module was constructed to identify the core technologies of chip design, manufacturing, and packaging testing. Secondly, the traditional main path analysis method was improved by innovatively introducing information entropy theory to construct a dynamic evolution model, and the technological evolution path in the chip field during 2010–2024 was systematically tracked based on the Derwent patent database. According to this study, the field of chip design exhibited a bidirectional innovation feature of “system optimization regional deep cultivation”, while the manufacturing process highlights the non-linear accumulation law of process complexity. Packaging and testing technology tended to develop in synergy with integration and intelligence.