The United States, Japan and the Netherlands have issued a ban on chips, and chips below 14nm are self-sufficient
As we all know, chips are the foundation of digital computerization around the world, and it can even be said that the more advanced the technology, the more important the chip becomes.
In 2022, the size of the global chip industry will exceed $600 billion, and of this $600 billion, the United States will occupy about half of the global market.
As a result, the United States is not only cashing out to make a lot of money, but also brandishing the chips in its hands to dominate the global technology industry.
In this case, China, as the world's largest chewing gum market, is highly valued and worried by the United States. The United States did not allow China to develop the chewing gum industry, thus getting rid of its dependence on the United States.
Because this not only makes the United States make less money, but more importantly, when China's chip industry grows and grows, the hegemony of American chips will also be shaken.
Because of this, over the years, the United States has continuously carried out a series of bans on China's ejiao industry, and the intensity of the ban is still increasing.
In October last year, the United States issued the most strict ban in history, targeting the three most important categories of products in the semiconductor industry
1) The logic chip adopts a non-flat FinFET or Gaafet transistor structure of 16nm or 14nm or smaller;
2.DRAM memory chips with an average pitch of less than or equal to 18 nm.
3.NAND flash memory chips with 128 or more layers.
This year, the United States is worried that the ban it has imposed will not take effect and will become empty talk, because it is worried that Japan and the Netherlands will seize the opportunity to provide necessary equipment to Chinese chip companies, and will also join Japan and the Netherlands to carry out a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of China's chip industry.
As a result, Japan proposed a semiconductor restriction order for 23 types of semiconductor equipment in April as a supplement to the U.S. chip ban that went into effect on July 23 this year.
Japan's ban is very good, although the main purpose is also advanced technology, but some equipment that can be used for 14nm and can also be used for 45nm is also banned, it can be said that the United States is stricter, anyway, the comprehensive blockchain process of 14nm and below requires a license to sell to China, but the license cannot be so easy to obtain, everyone understands.
A few days ago, the Netherlands issued a restriction order on semiconductors, which will come into effect on September 1, 2023.
As in Japan, equipment and software for semiconductors of 14nm and below are under a total embargo and must be licensed before they can be purchased. At present, only mature process equipment is exempt from any restrictions.
And the so-called license is obviously an excuse, because this license cannot be distributed to China at the moment.
The United States, Japan, and the Netherlands have joined forces to basically monopolize more than 90% of the world's semiconductor equipment, EDA software, and semiconductor materials markets.
Therefore, China's chip industry is growing and growing, and it can no longer rely on others, but only on itself.
And it depends on itself, it must be all-round, from EDA to semiconductor equipment, semiconductor materials, and various semiconductor technologies, etc., we must conduct self-research and be independent, so as not to be controlled by others.
Judging from the information disclosed by the previous institutions, we still have a long way to go in terms of semiconductor equipment and semiconductor materials, because many equipment and materials are still quite backward, such as lithography machines, photoresists, etc.
In the past, it was said that technology has no borders, but now it seems that technology has borders, and this issue in the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands has proven it, what do you think?