I am honestly surprised to hear that China is on the same level as Korea and Taiwan in SME. I would have imagined they are ahead.
Chinese semiconductor industry
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come on. take this as a statement. Chinese don't do chest thumping.
China is way ahead from Korea and Taiwan, when it comes to indigenous tools in semiconductor. close to Japan if we count 28nm complete set of tools.
within few years, China will surpass Japan.
I'm surprised because Taiwan and Korea specialize in upstream industries and lack the size or incentive to develop complete supply chains.
absolutely.
South Korean Newspaper last year publish an article. 76 percent tools/materials have imported from EU/Japan/USA. highest percentage
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in this article, Dr. Wang Hui believes. look at his wording. he believes. means he don't know the current progress and breakthrough Chinese SME did in past 3/4 years. its not a big deal. these high ranked people dont have time to see what's going on in Chinese SME day to day. most of experts still have outdated view. so i don't care
as of now progress -
28nm domestic line has completed.
14nm and below domestic line currently under process. some tools have been verifying.
Chinese SME also exploring domestic 7nm line.
Not to cross post from Twitter too much but this caught my eye:
this is interesting but can't believe so need more clarity.
TSMC is full of US equipments : Applied Materials, KLA, Lam Research, Cymer excimer laser.. so TSMC cannot Fab Huawei chips but @tphuang sir can answer this question.
Comrade Trump and Comrade Biden did more to advance China's semiconductor supply chain in 5 years than China itself did in the 15 years before.
Yeah it seems these past four or five years are going to be crucial for China's future, they have spurred their innovation growth so quickly, it's amazing for people here in the West.
I wonder what would happen to countries with the "If China can do it, we can do it too!" mentality once the shackle of SME sanctions applied on China breaks. It would also serve a severe blow to the perception regards to effectiveness of sanctions, especially to China. No matter how loud one screams of "Stealin' IP", whether true or not, the end result matters, and will surface and screams back "in your face, b%tch!"
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