Chips, the "crown jewel" of modern science and technology, are also the core track in the field of big technology, but for a long time, the core technology of many links has been firmly in the hands of Western countries led by the United States, which is the key to the United States harvesting the world's wealth. Therefore, when Huawei broke into their comfort zone in the semiconductor field, the United States launched a series of sanctions against Huawei and even domestic chips, the chip foundry business was terminated, and the supply of 5G chips was cut off.
What disappointed them was that in the past three years, Huawei has broken through the problem of chip manufacturing and baseband chips, and the return of the Kirin 9000s chip has made the United States fall into hard thinking, and after further research, it was found that the manufacturing process of this chip is not less than 7nm, and it is made in China. When the manufacturing process is independent and controllable, Huawei has launched a comprehensive layout in the fields of PC, Wi-Fi, and cloud computing.
However, the two recent news are indeed a bit unfavorable for Huawei and even domestic chips.
First, Huawei's chip technology was stolen. A former senior technical director of Huawei's HiSilicon Semiconductor division, surnamed Zhang, "stole" Huawei's chip technology when he left his job, and established a company called "Zunpai Communication Technology", inducing many former HiSilicon Semiconductor R&D personnel to jump ship to his company by means of high salaries and equity inducements, and instructed these people to steal Huawei's core technology by excerpts or screenshots before leaving.
This is Huawei's absolute leading WiFi7 technology in the industry, and it is also the hub for controlling smart homes in the future, which shows the impact of this incident on Huawei. The point is that the employee who stole Huawei's technology is a former employee of Qualcomm in the United States, which keeps the voice of "doubts and conspiracy theories" high.
Second, ASML released the 2NMEUV lithography machine and began to ship to overseas chip manufacturers such as Intel, which is a major breakthrough in ASML's manufacturing process over the years and a further continuation of Moore's Law. The 5nm precision lithography machine can make the chip process to 3nm by modifying the transistor Shanji, and if the 2nm precision lithography machine is used, it is likely to mean that a large number of 2nm or even more advanced process chips will appear on the market next year.
Although ASML is a Dutch company, it has the endorsement of American technology and capital behind it, and ASML's shipments have received strict control from the United States, which means that the wafer fabs in Chinese mainland are isolated from this technology industry upgrade, and a EUV lithography machine cannot be obtained.
In the face of the theft of Huawei's technology and the advent of the ASML2nm lithography machine, many people are worried about the impact on domestic chips
It is obviously unrealistic to say that there is no impact, such as wifi7, Huawei has always been the main contributor to the standard, and has a large number of technical patents, but the American chip giant Qualcomm has been following Huawei, which is Huawei's main competitor, once Qualcomm becomes the formulator of industry standards, just like Huawei in the 5G era, relevant companies around the world have to pay patent fees for it and purchase their equipment.
The United States has always flaunted technology patents, of course, it does not want to be labeled as "plagiarism", once it breaks the rules it took the lead in, their ideas will soon be imitated by others, and the cost of not respecting the achievements of others is immeasurable, which is why the United States knows that Huawei has a large number of 5G technology patents, and only dares to sanction and dare not plagiarize and steal related technologies.
However, the leakage of Huawei's technology has exposed a problem that still exists in some domestic industries: plagiarism, tribute, and fighting still exist, and it is irresponsible not to be down-to-earth if you want to promote the rise of domestic chips.
ASML, the anti-sightseeing engraving machine giant, now that the 2nm lithography machine has been released, and large-scale mass production will begin in 2024, which is the result of ASML's research and development for ten years and can lead the innovation of the chip industry, once the overseas chip factory introduces the 2nm lithography machine, the future mobile phone, PC, and AI chips will inevitably gradually enter the 2nm era, and there will be a greater gap between domestic chip manufacturing technology and the top technology, and product competitiveness will continue to be amplified.
Therefore, domestic enterprises can not engage in fighting, which will only slow down the development of China's high-tech development, and at the same time should be united and cooperative, down-to-earth, through independent research and development to slowly narrow the gap with advanced technology, only in this way, we can truly master the core technology, improve the ability of independent innovation, and realize the sustainable development of China's high-tech industry.
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