Big corporations like Apple Huawei etc, publish their supplier list every year.
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Big corporations like Apple Huawei etc, publish their supplier list every year.
CFET, it's like 2.5 and 3D stacking, China and Huawei are focusing on 2.5 and 3D packing, and heterogeneous stacking... it will have little for low-end chip production possible equally itchy with high-end chips.
They are not legally required to do so and there is no expectation of completeness in their supplier list. Most companies treat supplier lists as highly confidential, and it is legally protected information in the US.
That is from an European Austrian company called EVgroup. Similar Chinese lithography players are:
Maskless:
Hefei Xinqi Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd
SVG optronics
Mikoptik
Advantools ( if they are still alive)
https://advantools.cases.ycway.com/solutions/semiconductor-direct-write-lithography-series.html
and so on.
Mask aligners:
SMEE (the 300 and 500 series):
CETC:
NanoImprint:
Qindao Tenren Micro Nanotechnology
AMIS NIL
can't find the website.
Hybrid Bonding
U-Precision
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The West has no viable alternative strategies other than conforming to a multipolar world. The current "Rules Based Order" is basically the end product of the previous colonial imperialist system that placed Anglo-Americans at the top followed by the West & Central Europeans below them. This system worked to their favor as long as they could maintain the commanding heights of the world economy, technology and military. They do this through patent laws, international financial parasitism, and pervasive Harvard MBA style comparative advantage trade agreements that straight-jacket new comers. The problem now is that China is the first country ever to be able to overcome all these obstacles. China is close to becoming a true full spectrum peer competitor in the near horizon. Even the Soviet Union was never a full spectrum peer competitor. China can and will take over the commanding heights if the status quo continues much longer. It is probably going to pass America in gross scientific output sometime between 2023-2025 and eventually probably surpass the entire OECD combined.
Semiconductors are the gateway technology to the other lynchpin technologies of the commanding heights. Literally everything in the modern world you can think of. If the American sanctions successfully hold China back in this field, it would actually contain China for a long time. However, a long time isn't forever! Sooner or later, it would break through. The idiocy of this policy is that what should have been a long time is turning out to be a lot sooner than expected. This is like kicking yourself in the head and blaming the pain on the guy you were actually trying to kick.
Chinese officials have publicly announced the 14nm process being ready for commercialization but I haven't seen the same for 7nm. Even if 7nm is commercially viable by 2024, I think it would make more sense to be packaging 14nm 2.5/3D. Supposedly, they are working on improving yields but there are issues related to the photoresists, or possibly to the light sources. Nobody really knows because it's all rumors on the Chinese Internet.Domestic 14nm line is done and dusted by 2024 a 7nm domestic line will be humming. And IF you want evidence , please wait for the Return of the King in 2023.
The West has no viable alternative strategies other than conforming to a multipolar world. The current "Rules Based Order" is basically the end product of the previous colonial imperialist system that placed Anglo-Americans at the top followed by the West & Central Europeans below them. This system worked to their favor as long as they could maintain the commanding heights of the world economy, technology and military. They do this through patent laws, international financial parasitism, and pervasive Harvard MBA style comparative advantage trade agreements that straight-jacket new comers. The problem now is that China is the first country ever to be able to overcome all these obstacles. China is close to becoming a true full spectrum peer competitor in the near horizon. Even the Soviet Union was never a full spectrum peer competitor. China can and will take over the commanding heights if the status quo continues much longer. It is probably going to pass America in gross scientific output sometime between 2023-2025 and eventually probably surpass the entire OECD combined.
Semiconductors are the gateway technology to the other lynchpin technologies of the commanding heights. Literally everything in the modern world you can think of. If the American sanctions successfully hold China back in this field, it would actually contain China for a long time. However, a long time isn't forever! Sooner or later, it would break through. The idiocy of this policy is that what should have been a long time is turning out to be a lot sooner than expected. This is like kicking yourself in the head and blaming the pain on the guy you were actually trying to kick.
Chinese officials have publicly announced the 14nm process being ready for commercialization but I haven't seen the same for 7nm. Even if 7nm is commercially viable by 2024, I think it would make more sense to be packaging 14nm 2.5/3D. Supposedly, they are working on improving yields but there are issues related to the photoresists, or possibly to the light sources. Nobody really knows because it's all rumors on the Chinese Internet.Domestic 14nm line is done and dusted by 2024 a 7nm domestic line will be humming. And IF you want evidence , please wait for the Return of the King in 2023.
I disagree on this point about EDA. This is MUCH MUCH harder than it may seem from a technical point of view because EDA is typically developed in parallel with hardware. It can't be developed in isolation of the feedback loop needed to perfect it. The flipside is that it will effectively self-blockade American semicon equipment as you mention.
Pirated EDA might work for foreign semicon equipment for now, but who knows what kind of tripwires have been embedded in foreign semicon equipment and foreign EDA to f**k over China. China will eventually need to support its own EDA softwares on it's own semicon equipment. This takes time and time is what the Americans are expecting to gain from this so that they can reshore, recapture and indeed control not just the semicon industry but all downstream high technology industries.
The West has no viable alternative strategies other than conforming to a multipolar world. The current "Rules Based Order" is basically the end product of the previous colonial imperialist system that placed Anglo-Americans at the top followed by the West & Central Europeans below them. This system worked to their favor as long as they could maintain the commanding heights of the world economy, technology and military. They do this through patent laws, international financial parasitism, and pervasive Harvard MBA style comparative advantage trade agreements that straight-jacket new comers. The problem now is that China is the first country ever to be able to overcome all these obstacles. China is close to becoming a true full spectrum peer competitor in the near horizon. Even the Soviet Union was never a full spectrum peer competitor. China can and will take over the commanding heights if the status quo continues much longer. It is probably going to pass America in gross scientific output sometime between 2023-2025 and eventually probably surpass the entire OECD combined.
Semiconductors are the gateway technology to the other lynchpin technologies of the commanding heights. Literally everything in the modern world you can think of. If the American sanctions successfully hold China back in this field, it would actually contain China for a long time. However, a long time isn't forever! Sooner or later, it would break through. The idiocy of this policy is that what should have been a long time is turning out to be a lot sooner than expected. This is like kicking yourself in the head and blaming the pain on the guy you were actually trying to kick.
Chinese officials have publicly announced the 14nm process being ready for commercialization but I haven't seen the same for 7nm. Even if 7nm is commercially viable by 2024, I think it would make more sense to be packaging 14nm 2.5/3D. Supposedly, they are working on improving yields but there are issues related to the photoresists, or possibly to the light sources. Nobody really knows because it's all rumors on the Chinese Internet.Domestic 14nm line is done and dusted by 2024 a 7nm domestic line will be humming. And IF you want evidence , please wait for the Return of the King in 2023.
how do you think semiconductor equipment talks to EDA files? I don't know. My understanding is that the EAD file output is used for a mask set. The equipment does not talks directly to the EDA files.
from my experience, something like an CVD instrument or dry etcher has just a few parameters: temperature, pressure, gas flow, gas type (valve selection), time. The core IP is in the physical parts of the instrument - like controlling the wafer platen for high uniformity with different heater channels, corrosion resistant internal coatings, etc. The controls are comparatively not so complex. You can manually control this or have it be on simple recipe control. Here's an example.
Most of the changes seem to me are just based around making it more user friendly.
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