Chinese semiconductor thread II
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These aren't Huawei devices.
These are VMs running on Qualcomm CPUs.
Stop falling for these fake benchmarks on VMs.
Just wait for someone reputable like Geekerwan to do a proper benchmark.
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Another Geekbench 6 score. The previous one was inaccurate.
KST Makes Significant Advances in Domestic Ion Implantation Equipment at IC China 2025
At IC China 2025, Leadcore’s subsidiary KST showcased a full range of domestically produced ion implanters, demonstrating strong technical capabilities and progress in mass production. As one of the "four core front-end process equipment" essential for semiconductor manufacturing, ion implanters play a vital role in chip performance and national self-reliance.
KST presented differentiated products including:
- Low-energy high-current, ultra-low temperature, high-temperature, and CIS-specific low-energy high-current implanters.
- High-energy implanters that have passed 28nm process verification and serve three customers with repeated production.
- Medium-current iKing 360 implanter (with superior beam intensity and energy coverage).
- Hydrogen ion implantation equipment verified via Smart-Cut technology.
Zhang Changyong emphasized KST’s leadership in the high-current market, noting over 10 customer deployments, more than 50 units delivered, and stable production of over 10 million wafers. The company is transitioning from initial "supplementary introduction" to full "systematic entry," with growing competitiveness driven by improved technology platforms and mass production capabilities.
Vertical Integration Drives Innovation and Market Expansion
Following its acquisition by Lead Technology Group, KST has leveraged a vertically integrated ecosystem—spanning materials, components, equipment, and services—to accelerate R&D, improve supply chain stability, and enhance product performance.
Key benefits of this integration include:
Vertical Integration Drives Innovation and Market Expansion
Following its acquisition by Lead Technology Group, KST has leveraged a vertically integrated ecosystem—spanning materials, components, equipment, and services—to accelerate R&D, improve supply chain stability, and enhance product performance.
Key benefits of this integration include:
- Full in-house capability across ion sources, high-voltage platforms, temperature control, motion systems.
- Access to domestic doping materials, electronic gases, electrostatic chucks, mass flow meters, and microwave power supplies.
- End-to-end support from R&D through verification and delivery.
This vertical synergy reduces reliance on imported parts, improves product consistency, shortens development cycles, and strengthens cost and quality control enabling scalable, stable production.
KST is also responding to diverse downstream demands:
- Logic chips require precise energy stability and angle control in advanced processes.
- Memory (DRAM/3D NAND) needs high dose, throughput, and vertical precision.
- Power semiconductors (SiC/GaN) demand multi-energy, multi-charged state processing.
- CIS sensors and niche applications create customized requirements.
With coverage across logic, memory, power, and sensors, KST is expanding its segmented product portfolio to meet evolving and specialized customer needs positioning itself as a key player in the localization of semiconductor equipment.
Yanwei Semiconductor launched their new Shower Head thermal ALD tool for AI computer chips
Advantech Semiconductor disclosed that its independently developed Spritz series of new material atomic layer deposition (tALD) equipment had been delivered in Wuxi, with simultaneous shipments of two machines, successfully delivering them to leading domestic companies in both the logic and memory chip fields.
This equipment focuses on the manufacturing needs of AI computing chips, achieving breakthroughs in key processes such as HKMG metal layer deposition, NAND WL, DRAM bWL, and SN region thin film filling. It fills the gap in domestic metal atomic layer deposition and significantly improves thin film uniformity and production stability with its advanced gas intake, mixing, and uniform flow systems, contributing to the localization of advanced processes. Since its establishment in Wuxi in October 2022, Yanwei Semiconductor has completed multiple rounds of financing in just three years: an angel round in December of that year, an angel+ round in July 2023, a pre-A round of hundreds of millions of yuan in January 2024, and three more rounds of financing totaling hundreds of millions of yuan this year.
GigaDevice its self-developed LPDDR4X series products will enter mass production next year.
The company's newly mass-produced DDR4 8Gb series has quickly captured market share, with Q3 sales roughly equivalent to DDR4 4Gb. Next year, the company will achieve mass production of its self-developed LPDDR4X series products and begin planning the development of small-capacity LPDDR5X products.
China's first 5nm full-featured space computing chip released.
Ningbo-based Gravity Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. officially released China's first full-featured MR (Morphological) computing chip, the "G-X100," at the 2025 Space Computing Industry Conference . Simultaneously, they launched "Extreme Domain," a full-stack space computing solution for ecosystem partners . Wang Shuang, co-founder and CMO of the company, stated that this is China's first 5nm full-featured space computing chip , making Gravity the world's only provider of a full-stack space computing solution .
Hua Hong Semiconductor establishes a new company in Wuxi with multiple integrated circuit businesses.
Huahong Grace Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. was recently established, with a business scope including: integrated circuit manufacturing; integrated circuit chip and product manufacturing; integrated circuit sales; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit chip design and services. Qichacha's equity penetration analysis shows that the company is wholly owned by Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Huahong Semiconductor.
According to available information, Hua Hong Semiconductor is a leading global pure-play foundry specializing in specialty processes, focusing on mature processes from 90nm to 0.18μm. Through self-developed optimization, it has established advantages in power devices, embedded memory, and other fields.
According to available information, Hua Hong Semiconductor is a leading global pure-play foundry specializing in specialty processes, focusing on mature processes from 90nm to 0.18μm. Through self-developed optimization, it has established advantages in power devices, embedded memory, and other fields.