As far as I know Taiwan is razor-focused on the fabrication part. They probably produce some equipment too but nothing substantial.BTW how is the situation of wafer manufacturing in China? Can China manufacture 300 mm wafers?
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Exactly, I completely agree.
Folks should look at it from another angle too.
In hindsight, what did China Inc. do to try to beat the semiconductor restrictions?
One, do a stockpile. Two, let China Inc. take care of the rest.
That is all it took. A stockpile of chips. Then business as usual proceeds. And life goes on.
There is panic in the air. But that is not from China Inc.
A few ways to respond to this, just for fun.
1) What the United States government is doing is a little different this time, because they are coercing other countries outside of the United States to do their bidding. That will push people's buttons like it is Imperialism and that will push the people's war ideology!
2) When we buy a car, we can drive it anywhere we want and do anything to it. Those are the accepted rules, once you buying something, that item is yours. Here, the United States unilaterally changed the rules when no one expected it. Even though people in a third country bought the machine from America, now the US government says they still control it. Why buy something from America when you don't own it, because America owns yo' ass! This is kind of funny, because the US government thinks these actions will work in the long run.
3) We do not live in the old days anymore, and the current cultural mores is to proclaim the woke-ism and say I am oppressed like a black man. Or black woman. Now give me my UBI.
I agree with this. IMO, the biggest mistake Trump did, was what you just mentioned.
Everyone with half a brain knew that the US could do this, including the Chinese Gov, however the businesses and CEOs were worshipping Western Technology, chasing profits and they drank the globalization kool-aid where they truly believed that the world was fair and trade would always flow irrespective of politics (lol)
So with the Trump actions, a bomb blowed up on the faces of Chinese businesses who just couldn't believe that their beloved US would block them from accessing US magical tech and components.
So after that happened, the Chinese gov(Xi included..) I am sure was celebrating because they could finally convince the private sector to abandon the US supplies.
However there are still some idiots in the private sector who still believed that with Biden everything would return to the 2000s, so you can imagine their shock when the Chinese Supercomputer companies were sanctioned by Biden lol
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The plant currently has nine production lines for 8-inch wafers and two high-tech production lines for 12-inch wafers, with a total yearly production capacity of 2.4 million 300 mm wafers, 5.4 million 200 mm wafers and 4.8 million 150 mm wafers.
The company is Japanese but seem to have a Chinese subsidiary.
There are solar panel wafer suppliers. They too are focused on silicon wafers.Maybe they also supply for computing semiconductor chip?
Emei Semiconductors for example.
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Not really. If it comes down to that, China can simply choose to ignore Intel and ARM's patents
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Indeed. A lot people just assume that EUVL and other process specific semiconductor equipment (like deposition and ion implanters) are one of a kind, alchemic magical things, like the Silmarils or the One Ring.
They're not.
Werent some folks here saying its 10x harder than fusion?
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If the goal was to remove Chinese suppliers from 5G, than ORAN is a tremendously stupid and self defeating idea (guess what plug and play entails?)
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