Hi TAM,
Your right about Huawei and Here is the proof, Huawei will had the FAB to produce their own chips.
from cnTechPost
Huawei's first chip plant topped out, accelerating its own R&D and manufacturing efforts
2020-12-02 20:29:54 GMT+8 | cnTechPost
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The main building of Huawei's first chip plant, the FAB2 project at the Huawei Optics Factory in Wuhan, built by China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd., was successfully completed and topped out on November 30, the construction company said today.
The project, with a total construction area of 208,900 square meters, includes the FAB production facility, CUB power station, PMD software factory and other supporting facilities.
It is Huawei's largest R&D base in the central region, with an optical capability center and an intelligent terminal R&D center.
Upon completion, the project will be put into production as Huawei's first domestic chip plant, mainly for the production of Huawei's self-developed optical communication chips and modules, realizing the complete industry chain from chip design to manufacturing, packaging and testing and delivery to the consumer market.
As of the end of June 2019, Huawei disclosed five projects under construction, including the Huawei Cloud Data Center project in Gui'an, Huawei Gangtou talent apartment project, Suzhou R&D project, Huawei Songshan Lake Terminal Project Phase II and Songshan Lake Huawei Training Academy.
At the time, Huawei said it planned to build the Shanghai Qingpu R&D and the Wuhan Hisilicon factory project (the Wuhan Huawei Optical Factory Project), with total investments of RMB 10.985 billion and RMB 1.8 billion, respectively.
As the world's leading company in the communications equipment market, Huawei has long been deploying optical chips, a core component in the field of optical communications.
As early as 2012, Huawei acquired CIP, a British photonic integration company, followed by the acquisition of Caliopa, a Belgian developer of silicon optical technology, in 2013. Through these two acquisitions, Huawei officially entered the optical communication chip market.
To date, Huawei has been investing in optical communication chips for six years and has been able to achieve self-sufficiency in some of its products.
Huawei has self-production capabilities in many fields such as optical chips (including 25G EML), modulators, SiP, DSP, etc., and has also mastered the world's leading 800G optical chip technology.
