Chinese semiconductor industry
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Sanity has returned to Taiwan, at least temporarily. TSMC last week announced that most of its valuable chips will still be produced on the island. This is despite intense pressure from the Joe Biden White House to “friendshore” TSMC’s most advanced chipmaking capacities, including those for the next-generation chips, to the United States.
While President Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party have effectively capitulated to the US demands, the island’s public and its business elite have realised giving up the jewel in their manufacturing crown is a bridge too far.
They have belatedly realised the Faustian bargain the Tsai government has made for them by going over completely to the American side. Hopefully, they will translate that realisation in the coming election next year.
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The US regime loves harvesting technology all around the world. Operation paperclip anyone. A lot of vazal regimes seem to love giving pleasure to their overlords.
While President Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party have effectively capitulated to the US demands, the island’s public and its business elite have realised giving up the jewel in their manufacturing crown is a bridge too far.
They have belatedly realised the Faustian bargain the Tsai government has made for them by going over completely to the American side. Hopefully, they will translate that realisation in the coming election next year.
Non paywall source:
The US regime loves harvesting technology all around the world. Operation paperclip anyone. A lot of vazal regimes seem to love giving pleasure to their overlords.
YMTC fab'd SSDs with 7450 MB/s read & 6500 MB/s (using 232 layers according to this) on sale for 1079 RMB for 4 TB version
also with predator, similar speed 2TB going for under 500 RMB
Again, we see weekly reports of just how cheap SSDs are going for in China.
Dam now they only need to have brand recognition and a reputation.
antiterror13
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wowww, finally SSD is cheaper than HDD
The specs for 4TB is great, with 8000 TBW, it means 2000 cycles .. actually great specs. Samsung 980 pro only has 600 cycles
The question is how come this baby can have over 3x more cycles than Samsung SSD high-end ?
So, YMTC now can produce 232 layers? all with domestic tools ?
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broadsword
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How close are they to commercialization?
Researchers Achieve Higher Precision with Biocompatible Hydrogel Photoresist
Editor: ZHANG Nannan | Jun 12, 2023on May 23.
In this study, the researchers extensively investigated the TPP of HAVE hydrogel photoresists, and achieved the 22 nm feature size. The photoresist formulation was optimized and the biocompatibility of 3D hydrogel cell scaffolds was explored. The influence of the focus position on the laser threshold was also comprehensively investigated.
Furthermore, the biocompatible 3D hydrogel scaffold structures were fabricated. The protocol proposed in this study is promising for fabricating complex biocompatible 3D hydrogel structures and exploring the potential applications in microenvironment regulation, tissue engineering, biomedicine, and biomimetic science.
This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program, the Natural Science Foundation of China, and the International Partnership Program of CAS.
interesting stuff here coming out of BAAI
They released the Aquila model. FlagOpen open source project by BAAI is a large part of that
mentioned that FlagPerf added in Kunlunxin, and Iluvator's Tianshu GPUs. So I had to take a look a Tianshu website. Looks like their appeals might be the compatibility with Cuda
That would reduce development time. I noticed A100 and Tianshu GPU to be the only GPUs used for Aquila model based on github. So, it would make sense for them to do this given the lack of need to use something other than Cuda. imo, it's a problem BAAI is using Cuda this much, but whatever
Looks like Tianshu GPU also integrated on Baidu PaddlePaddle
they are also certified with CEC cloud, part of the China mobile ecosystem & I think used in the new China Telecom data center in Lingang. So a lot of the GPU makers we saw last year are making their way to various cloud providers and data centers, but this is still early.
Aside from that, Biren showcased their product at the conference. Keep in mind that they are part of the FlagOpen project
Moore Threads proudly showed that their platform can easily adapt to Adquila model since MUSIFY tool can migrate CUDA code over in a few hours
They released the Aquila model. FlagOpen open source project by BAAI is a large part of that
FlagEval platform used to do the computation and such
mentioned that FlagPerf added in Kunlunxin, and Iluvator's Tianshu GPUs. So I had to take a look a Tianshu website. Looks like their appeals might be the compatibility with Cuda
That would reduce development time. I noticed A100 and Tianshu GPU to be the only GPUs used for Aquila model based on github. So, it would make sense for them to do this given the lack of need to use something other than Cuda. imo, it's a problem BAAI is using Cuda this much, but whatever
Looks like Tianshu GPU also integrated on Baidu PaddlePaddle
they are also certified with CEC cloud, part of the China mobile ecosystem & I think used in the new China Telecom data center in Lingang. So a lot of the GPU makers we saw last year are making their way to various cloud providers and data centers, but this is still early.
Aside from that, Biren showcased their product at the conference. Keep in mind that they are part of the FlagOpen project
Moore Threads proudly showed that their platform can easily adapt to Adquila model since MUSIFY tool can migrate CUDA code over in a few hours
more on the Tianshu GPU training
Again, check here
AquilaCode-7B-TS is trained with Tianshu-Bi-V100
AquilaCode-7B-NV trained with A100
so you have perfect 1vs1 comparison there
more on Tianshu GPU
But this does show among the BAAI FlagOpen participants, they are the first domestic one to be used
basically from what I can tell, performance similar but has better stability. it's able to do 7B parameters here, but 10B+ parameters should be no problem. 19 days of training, that sounds quite a bit
Again, check here
AquilaCode-7B-TS is trained with Tianshu-Bi-V100
AquilaCode-7B-NV trained with A100
so you have perfect 1vs1 comparison there
more on Tianshu GPU
so supports all your expected AI architecture and various LLMs
quite the boast here sine we know Ascend has already been doing 10/100B parameter type of LLMs
But this does show among the BAAI FlagOpen participants, they are the first domestic one to be used
Fuyang Xinyihua, a leading domestic photoresist company, completed the D round of financing exceeding 500 million yuan
Xinyihua Materials, Fuyang Xinyihua Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fuyang Xinyihua"), a leading photoresist company in China, recently completed a D-round financing of over 500 million yuan.
It is reported that this round of financing is led by Shengjing Jiacheng Fund of Funds, Zhongdian Zhongjin, Jiantou Investment, Hefei Innovation Investment, Fuhe Fund, Fuxin Optoelectronics, Wuchan Zhongda, Haizhi Investment, Longding Capital, Qixin Capital , Jiahesheng, Shanghai Yuying and others followed suit. Light Source Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor. This round of funds will be used to further increase the R&D and expanded reproduction of photoresist and OLED materials, enhance the core competitiveness of the company, seize technological high points, occupy market advantages, help improve the localization rate of key materials, and contribute to the construction of a healthy industrial ecology chain escort.
According to reports, Fuyang Xinyihua has diversified its product and technology layout in display photoresists, semiconductor photoresists, special photoresists, OLED materials and cutting-edge materials, and continues to deepen the field of electronic materials.
At present, Fuyang Xinyihua has promoted the localization of high-end photoresist for TFT-LCD display, and a variety of self-developed color photoresist products have been recognized by BOE, TCL Huaxing and other industry leading customers, achieving stable mass production, ranking first in China The top photoresist company in mainland China. In addition, the company's semiconductor photoresist business has reached a cooperative relationship with a number of 12-inch fabs, and KrF products are being imported and tested by many customers; Resists have achieved technological breakthroughs and mass production; OLED high-quality materials have been certified and shipped to many key customers in the industry.
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