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TSMC and Samsung are the world's first and second largest chip foundries, more than 7 percent of the world's chips are produced by them, and TSMC alone controls nearly 6 percent of the market's revenue. The United States has formulated a subsidy of 52 billion US dollars to attract them to build factories in the United States to help the rise of chip localization.
But a series of actions by the United States did not treat the two as their own people, so they all "changed face", Samsung, TSMC announced one after another that they would accelerate the construction of factories in Japan, foreign media: China does not want it.
The United States has a highly developed technology industry. Entering the U.S. market can bring huge sales opportunities and revenue to chip giants such as TSMC and Samsung. Especially for TSMC, almost all of its major customers are from the United States, such as Apple, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, etc.
The chip giants that can be thought of are basically TSMC customers, and Samsung's cooperation with the United States is also very close, after all, South Korea has paved the way for Samsung. With the construction of factories in the United States, TSMC, Samsung and the United States have further cooperated.
TSMC has invested 40 billion yuan in the United States and plans to build two high-end chip factories, and Samsung also has an investment plan of 17 billion US dollars. It stands to reason that the United States should treat both as its own, but this is not the case.
Asking them to hand over data at a disagreement also restricts them from doing business with specific customers, and they need to strictly follow the rules, regardless of the losses it may bring. The United States only thinks about its own interests, and American companies are its own people. So all of them "changed faces", Samsung, TSMC announced one after another that they are accelerating the construction of factories in Japan.
Samsung said it would invest 40 billion yen (about 2 billion yuan) in Japan over the next five years to build a cutting-edge chip packaging factory in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
TSMC also reported that the first Japanese factory will be completed in late February next year.
Samsung and TSMC no longer regard the United States as their only place to invest, perhaps they have seen the face of the United States clearly. The treatment conditions given by Japan are significantly higher than those of the United States, and the subsidies are given, coupled with the fact that Japan has the world's top semiconductor industry chain, and many of the equipment and materials required can be purchased from Japan, which is of great benefit to the construction of factories.
But the question also comes, Samsung, TSMC needs to sell the chips made in Japan to customers, to whom?
China is an important chip exporter to Japan, so there is a high probability that chips need to be exported to the Chinese market. Since the beginning of this year, China's integrated circuit imports have continued to decline, the demand for consumer electronics has been sluggish, and TSMC's most profitable 7nm capacity utilization rate has been **. At its peak, 7nm contributed more than 30% of revenue, while in the third quarter of this year, 7nm accounted for only 17% of revenue.
TSMC has planned to reduce the price of 7nm in an attempt to salvage the decline. Foreign media bluntly said: China doesn't want it.
The demand for 7nm chips is sluggish, and more market demand is concentrated in the mature field of 28nm. And this kind of process Chinese mainland manufacturers can make their own, do not need to rely on imports.
TSMC, Samsung's experience is embarrassing, I think they went to the United States to build factories to stand in the United States, and did not OEM for specific Chinese enterprises, and the United States did not treat them as its own people, so they went to Japan to build factories. The problem is that after the establishment of the factory in Japan, there are great variables in the chips made. Whether it can sell well depends on the willingness of customers in the market.
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