Chinese semiconductor industry

Sixparty Semiconductor, an innovator in semiconductor coating materials, completed nearly 100 million yuan in financing​

Zhejiang Lufang Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. recently completed a B1 round of financing of nearly 100 million yuan. This round of financing was led by Xuanyuan Capital and Jinbang Capital, and was followed by Beite Fund and Liyuan Venture Capital. The raised funds will be used to accelerate downstream market penetration, further improve production capacity and iterate technology and processes.

A new way of get around new US regulations on AI，put AI servers on open sea.

BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster: The Future of AI Innovation​

The rapid pace of artificial intelligence has led to hastily drafted government regulation. Foreseeing this inevitability, Del Complex has engineered a solution ready to set sail. The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC)—a groundbreaking venture in international waters, melding cutting-edge technology with unparalleled autonomy.

Highlights:

• Over 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs per platform providing unparalleled compute and industry leading performance.
• Not just a compute cluster, each BSFCC is a sovereign nation state for innovation and acceleration.
• Kinetic risk mitigation with dedicated security forces.

A New Frontier for Our Ambition​

The Biden administration’s recent AI Executive Order and the European Union’s AI Act are thinly veiled attempts to centralize control under the guise of protecting citizens. This regulation not only stalls the pace of innovation, but also interferes with the very cosmic endowment of humanity. These technologies are not mere tools. They are the embodiment of human ambition and the realization of our potential.

It is in this spirit that Del Complex takes frontier AI models into a new boundless, blue sea frontier. Free from regulatory oversight, The BlueSea Frontier Compute Clusters offer unparalleled opportunities to train and deploy the next generation of large scale AI models.

Sovereign and Unburdened​

Each BSFCC operates as its own sovereign nation state deep in international waters, free from the constraints of regulatory bodies. These networked states are untouched by decelerationist rhetoric, and offer additional benefits as tax shelter opportunities.
Their statehood is recognized through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention, which define the rights and responsibilities of nation states.
Each BSFCC fulfills the criteria for statehood:

• A permanent population.
• A defined territory.
• A government.
• The capacity to enter into relations with other states.

As such, BSFCCs are each governed by their own charter, a document that outlines the rights and responsibilities of residents and visitors. Each charter is a living document, able to be amended by the operators of the BSFCC and their corporate partners.

Initially announced at the end of august, China's first self-designed reconfigurable 5G RF chip has now been listed in the product page of China Mobile on Taobao. China Mobile is a central SOE under SASAC and is responsible for designing the chip.
I can't find any information on the node of this thing so if anybody knows or has a good guess I would appreciate it.

tonyget said:

A new way of get around new US regulations on AI，put AI servers on open sea.

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BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster: The Future of AI Innovation​

The rapid pace of artificial intelligence has led to hastily drafted government regulation. Foreseeing this inevitability, Del Complex has engineered a solution ready to set sail. The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC)—a groundbreaking venture in international waters, melding cutting-edge technology with unparalleled autonomy.

Highlights:

• Over 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs per platform providing unparalleled compute and industry leading performance.
• Not just a compute cluster, each BSFCC is a sovereign nation state for innovation and acceleration.
• Kinetic risk mitigation with dedicated security forces.

A New Frontier for Our Ambition​

The Biden administration’s recent AI Executive Order and the European Union’s AI Act are thinly veiled attempts to centralize control under the guise of protecting citizens. This regulation not only stalls the pace of innovation, but also interferes with the very cosmic endowment of humanity. These technologies are not mere tools. They are the embodiment of human ambition and the realization of our potential.

It is in this spirit that Del Complex takes frontier AI models into a new boundless, blue sea frontier. Free from regulatory oversight, The BlueSea Frontier Compute Clusters offer unparalleled opportunities to train and deploy the next generation of large scale AI models.

Sovereign and Unburdened​

Each BSFCC operates as its own sovereign nation state deep in international waters, free from the constraints of regulatory bodies. These networked states are untouched by decelerationist rhetoric, and offer additional benefits as tax shelter opportunities.
Their statehood is recognized through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention, which define the rights and responsibilities of nation states.
Each BSFCC fulfills the criteria for statehood:

• A permanent population.
• A defined territory.
• A government.
• The capacity to enter into relations with other states.

As such, BSFCCs are each governed by their own charter, a document that outlines the rights and responsibilities of residents and visitors. Each charter is a living document, able to be amended by the operators of the BSFCC and their corporate partners.

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At the end of the day, deep learning practitioners still want their own toys. I’m looking forward to Chinese versions of CUDA (Moore Threads’ MUSA) , Huawei Ascend 910B and MindSpore (although MindSpore seems more like a replacement of PyTorch), etc. I don’t currently have access to any of their more powerful offerings but hopefully soon!

A new paper from Tsinghua University, China, describes the development and operation of an ultra-fast and highly efficient AI processing chip specialized in computer vision tasks.

tonyget said:

A new way of get around new US regulations on AI，put AI servers on open sea.

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BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster: The Future of AI Innovation​

The rapid pace of artificial intelligence has led to hastily drafted government regulation. Foreseeing this inevitability, Del Complex has engineered a solution ready to set sail. The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC)—a groundbreaking venture in international waters, melding cutting-edge technology with unparalleled autonomy.

Highlights:

• Over 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs per platform providing unparalleled compute and industry leading performance.
• Not just a compute cluster, each BSFCC is a sovereign nation state for innovation and acceleration.
• Kinetic risk mitigation with dedicated security forces.

A New Frontier for Our Ambition​

The Biden administration’s recent AI Executive Order and the European Union’s AI Act are thinly veiled attempts to centralize control under the guise of protecting citizens. This regulation not only stalls the pace of innovation, but also interferes with the very cosmic endowment of humanity. These technologies are not mere tools. They are the embodiment of human ambition and the realization of our potential.

It is in this spirit that Del Complex takes frontier AI models into a new boundless, blue sea frontier. Free from regulatory oversight, The BlueSea Frontier Compute Clusters offer unparalleled opportunities to train and deploy the next generation of large scale AI models.

Sovereign and Unburdened​

Each BSFCC operates as its own sovereign nation state deep in international waters, free from the constraints of regulatory bodies. These networked states are untouched by decelerationist rhetoric, and offer additional benefits as tax shelter opportunities.
Their statehood is recognized through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention, which define the rights and responsibilities of nation states.
Each BSFCC fulfills the criteria for statehood:

• A permanent population.
• A defined territory.
• A government.
• The capacity to enter into relations with other states.

As such, BSFCCs are each governed by their own charter, a document that outlines the rights and responsibilities of residents and visitors. Each charter is a living document, able to be amended by the operators of the BSFCC and their corporate partners.

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Its an intriguing proposition, but where the hell are they going to get the power for it? Also they are going to have some difficulty purchasing that many GPUs due to KYC requirements.

pevade said:

Its an intriguing proposition, but where the hell are they going to get the power for it? Also they are going to have some difficulty purchasing that many GPUs due to KYC requirements.

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It's a scam.


The supposed ship is actually a photoshopped version of a Siemens floating power plant called (BTW is not able to really navigate, just to stay at bay somewhere where the power generator is needed).


is an AI generated images galore, they don't even have a real address and are not a real company.

A.Man said:

A new paper from Tsinghua University, China, describes the development and operation of an ultra-fast and highly efficient AI processing chip specialized in computer vision tasks.

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Yes. I said this here before. AI chips which use analog architectures should be much more high performing and energy efficient than digital ones. The idea you need really high density leading edge processes for AI is pretty much BS. In the long term architectures specifically designed for AI should be much faster than using GPUs for AI tasks.

"These devices consist of three primary segments: the light source, the optical system, and the etching worktable. I’d argue that creating and using each of these components is as technically challenging as landing on the moon."

OK. For starters I am NOT an engineer, but I try to add 2 plus 2.

A) Let's assume SSMBEUV lighting is either already operational or may be streamlined shortly. So the synchrotron takes care of the light source.

B) SSMBEUV will allow you to use lenses, instead of mirrors, which presumably (maybe wrongly) should be simpler to manufacture than mirrors.

We are then missing the etching worktable.

As far as we know, Huawei’s Mate 60s were produced using DUV, at 193 nm wavelength through multiple patterning.

Here is the catch: isn't it much, much more difficult to control the etching worktable MULTIPLE patterning than a single patterning when using EUV?

If this is the case, than the missing link is optics. If you won't need mirrors, isn't the whole shebang taken care of?

My 2 cent question.

Tongcheng New Materials: The photoresist project phase has been completed and has gradually entered the trial production phase.​

Tongcheng New Materials announced that the company's wholly-owned subsidiary Shanghai Tongcheng Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. ("Tongcheng Electronics") invested in the construction of an annual output of 11,000 tons of semiconductors and flat panels in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Zone. The engineering phase of the display photoresist and 20,000 tons of related supporting reagents projects has been completed, and it has gradually entered the trial production phase.

The announcement shows that the engineering phase of the project has been completed and it has gradually entered the trial production stage. The company's Shanghai Chemical Industry Zone factory covers an area of 36,200 square meters and has a designed annual production capacity of 1,000 tons of semiconductor photoresist, 10,000 tons of display photoresist and 20,000 tons of high-purity EBR reagent (photoresist edge remover). At the same time, driven by strategic cooperation with international and domestic semiconductor manufacturers and photoresist manufacturers, production line optimization and quality control upgrades have been completed. Details are as follows:

1. Semiconductor photoresist production capacity construction situation
The company's Shanghai Chemical Industry Zone factory has an annual semiconductor photoresist mass production line with an annual output of 1,000 tons, which mainly includes an annual 300/400 tons ArF and KrF photoresist mass production line. By using ultra-high purity PFA (coating) equipment , the introduction of a high-precision material flow control system, coupled with a self-developed high-precision and high-efficiency photolithography filtering system, can achieve ppt-level metal impurities and 0.1um-level particle control, and has the production capacity of advanced process photoresists with different formulas.
2. Semiconductor photoresist product development and mass production capabilities

(1) ArF photoresist product situation
In terms of ArF photoresist products, the company has completed the development of some models of ArF photoresist. The shipping indicators of the first batch of ArF photoresist can benchmark the products of major international photoresist manufacturers, and it has mass production capabilities. Currently It is in the photolithography process testing and product verification stage before mass production, and there is still some uncertainty whether it can pass the verification.
The production capacity can supply most domestic chip manufacturers at the same time, and can better meet part of the domestic demand for advanced process photoresist.

(2) G-line, I-line and KrF photoresist products
At present, the company's G-line photoresist has occupied a large domestic market share; I-line photoresist has been widely used in domestic 6", 8", and 12" integrated circuit production lines, and the supported processes cover 14nm and above processes. There are more than 20 types of KrF photoresists in mass production, which are stably supplied to domestic leading chip manufacturers.
3. Construction and development of other electronic chemical projects

In order to meet the demand for high-purity solvents required for ArF photoresist and domestic advanced manufacturing processes, the company has completed the construction of high-purity EBR equipment, becoming the first domestic company to build high-purity EBR distillation tower equipment and master high-purity distillation technology. Local solvent supplier.