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Core Motion Technology announced yesterday that it has completed the world's first chip tapeout and test based on SMIC's FinFET N+1 advanced process. All IPs are made in-house, and their functions have passed a test. In the previously announced financial report for the first half of 2020, SMIC stated that the second-generation advanced technology (N+1) is progressing smoothly and has entered the customer product verification stage.
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"..hi machupicu, another article about ZTE 7nm based station chips From cnTechPost.
ZTE should learn their lesson from their previous experience with the US govt, they need to go IDM route like Huawei and produce their own chips.
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ZTE says it has commercialized 7nm on 5G base station chips, 4,000 employees working on operating system
2020-10-11 11:31:36 GMT+8 | cnTechPost
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On the main control chip of 5G wireless base stations and switches, the 7-nanometer chip developed by ZTE has been commercially available, and the 5-nanometer chip is still in the experimental stage, the company executive said on October 11.
quoted Li Hui, ZTE vice president, as saying that ZTE has invested heavily in research and development, with nearly 4,000 people in Chengdu working on its own operating system.
At the 3rd Digital China Summit on October 11, ZTE showcased its core technology capabilities and latest achievements around three major segments: independent intellectual property rights, 5G+ new infrastructure, and smart cities.
According to Li Hui, ZTE's products displayed this time are all based on independent innovation and completely localized, according to Tencent News.
"Many people didn't understand ZTE's independent innovation and development in chips and operating systems before, and we used to use them ourselves. We actually invested a lot of people in R&D. For example, there are nearly 4,000 people in Chengdu developing our own operating system."
Li Hui further said that the process of information technology construction is inherently a domestic process, buying foreign equipment in the past, and then gradually replacing it with domestic and completing self-development in the core communication chips.
At present, ZTE reached 2651 pieces on 5G core patents, accounting for 12% of the world's 5G core patents, Huawei currently accounts for 18%.
In the face of the current public perception of 5G is not strong, Li Hui also said that the characteristics of 5G in high bandwidth, low latency, low power consumption is actually the first to change the industry, through 5G to empower the industry, the public can gradually perceive.
"We believe that this stage should be divided into three stages: introductory, experimental and deepening. 5G application development must be combined with the scene. For example, the digital construction of the subway, banks, etc., so as to generate solutions to the problems of the public's life and work."
ZTE, however, is not yet able to manufacture its own chips. Rather, its 7-nm chips are produced by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and it uses Taiwan’s ASE Group’s 25D/interposer technology for assembly and testing.
The Shenzhen-based firm used to depend heavily on US chips and components until it was slapped with a seven-year ban by the US government in 2018 for violating US trade sanctions on Iran, preventing US firms from selling it their hardware and software.
As a result, the telecoms giant has been investing heavily in developing its own technologies. The fact that ZTE can now make its own chips, the most crucial component in many electronic devices, will raise concern, especially in the current context of deglobalization.
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Is this situation like Hisilicon's? Whereby ZTE can design its own chips, but can't manufacture them at the moment?
Wow, dude seems you already made tons of money.
That's no surprise. Every country has someone working as a proxy of foreign government. Inside China, there are the 大腕儿, big-Vs who voice their love of "western democrazy" such as:
- Their advocating of China importing "refugees" at the height of "refugee" crisis in Europe.
- Redefining "marriage" according to what their western master's value.
- The demonizing of North Korea some years ago during the NK's missile drama
- Propagating anti-Russia and anti-Muslim sentiments in China whenever the subjects got hot in the west.
The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab
Once, small firms centred on inventors were responsible for most of our innovation. Larger firms might buy or exploit these steps forwards, but they did not typically make them. And then for a brief period, this changed: many of the best new products, tools, and ideas came from research labs within large corporations. This brief period also happened to be the era when scientific, technological, and economic productivity sped forward at its fastest ever clip. Yet almost as soon as it arrived, the fruitful period was over and we returned to a situation where small companies and small-business-like teams at universities developed innovations outside of large companies and sold them in a market for ideas. Though we might enjoy the innovation created by small flexible firms, we should not dismiss the contributions made by large corporate labs. The corporate lab may be creeping back, but aggressively prosecuting antitrust against large firms growing organically through in-house research could easily snuff this spark out.
The attack on Huawei is not just about 5G or smartphones. It also has (had) the largest R&D budget of any Chinese firm. I believe this may be the real reason behind why they hate Huawei so much in particular:
For instance, in this list of the top 50 R&D spenders, Huawei is at #5 and is the ONLY Chinese company on the list. Meanwhile, 21 out of the 50 companies are American.
Once, small firms centred on inventors were responsible for most of our innovation. Larger firms might buy or exploit these steps forwards, but they did not typically make them. And then for a brief period, this changed: many of the best new products, tools, and ideas came from research labs within large corporations. This brief period also happened to be the era when scientific, technological, and economic productivity sped forward at its fastest ever clip. Yet almost as soon as it arrived, the fruitful period was over and we returned to a situation where small companies and small-business-like teams at universities developed innovations outside of large companies and sold them in a market for ideas. Though we might enjoy the innovation created by small flexible firms, we should not dismiss the contributions made by large corporate labs. The corporate lab may be creeping back, but aggressively prosecuting antitrust against large firms growing organically through in-house research could easily snuff this spark out.
The attack on Huawei is not just about 5G or smartphones. It also has (had) the largest R&D budget of any Chinese firm. I believe this may be the real reason behind why they hate Huawei so much in particular:
For instance, in this list of the top 50 R&D spenders, Huawei is at #5 and is the ONLY Chinese company on the list. Meanwhile, 21 out of the 50 companies are American.
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Chao-Yang Lu the super star of Quantum Science and "protegé" of Pan Jian wei (
) has once again won another medal
2021 Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
Chao-Yang Lu, University of Science and Technology of China
For significant contributions to optical quantum information sciences, especially on solid-state quantum light sources, quantum teleportation and optical quantum computing.
He had also received the Adolph Lomb Medal in February
2021 Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
Chao-Yang Lu, University of Science and Technology of China
For significant contributions to optical quantum information sciences, especially on solid-state quantum light sources, quantum teleportation and optical quantum computing.
He had also received the Adolph Lomb Medal in February
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