At the end of the day, it's just sand, and there is sand everywhere in China.
Chinese semiconductor industry
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Talk about wrong priorities, we should had invested in 14nm to 28nm and above FABS instead of leading edge 5nm and 3nm. Sometimes being behind had its benefit or the gods really favored China being an Atheist country...LOL
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Semiconductor is not like iron which China has to import, it's made of commonly available materials and once China figures it out, no more imports is needed.yeahh, it just a combination of proton, electron and neutron ..... nothing else
I don't know, but it seems to me there is an inconsistency between this piece of news and the following:
According to the second article, in July, China was manufacturing about one billion chips per day, or about 203.6 billion from January to July.
Digitimes is saying that Zing Semiconductor is producing 250,000 wafers per month. Let's assume there are 1.000 chips per wafer (rough guesstimate), their production is enough to produce 250,000,000 chips per month.
If this is correct, they will need 4 (four) months production to meet the needs of China for a SINGLE DAY.
There must be something wrong there.
Is this in a specific form factor like desktop cpu/gpu or micro controller form?
Guess different form factor have different area requirements.
The specified 60 x 60 mm image size with 100 nm resolution is really insane. The racists and haters might dismiss this as "low resolution" but they are usually non technical hacks. Those who aren't blinded by ideology recognize that this is a huge deal.
Yes EUV might have 18-20 nm resolution or whatever but what is the image size?
60 x 60 mm is 3600 mm2, more than 4x the area patterned at once. That means it can pattern the entire substrate for multiple chips, or even, for example, direct pattern an I/O chip at say 180 nm into the packaging and have 7 nm chips directly integrated with the I/O chip. It makes entirely new architectures possible.
Yes, logic SoCs are huge with 200+ mm2 die sizes while many microcontrollers, ASIC, analog, etc only have 10-50 mm2 die sizes.
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