As we all know, China is the world's largest chip market, and the size of China's chip market accounts for about one-third of the world.
But everyone also knows that although the Chinese market is very large, the local chip manufacturing technology is not advanced enough, and the production capacity is not particularly high, so some wafers want to build factories in Chinese mainland and get a piece of the pie.
In 2017, GF, the largest chip foundry in the United States, had a plan to build a wafer factory in China, located in Chengdu, and planned to invest 10 billion US dollars (about 70 billion yuan) to build a 12-inch wafer factory to produce chip products in the fields of terminals, Internet of Things, smart devices, and automotive electronics.
At the start of the first phase, GF invested 5400 million US dollars, and then Chengdu Gaoxin invested 5200 million US dollars, a total investment of 10The $600 million project was launched to the industry's applause as it would be the first 12-inch wafer production line in the southwest of the mainland.
However, later in terms of investment, there were some differences between GF and Chengdu Gaoxin, coupled with the later suppression of Chinese chips by the United States, which led to the failure of the project to go smoothly and became a well-known chip unfinished project in China.
In the middle, Chengdu Gaoxin also sued GF, after all, in order to welcome GF's entry, Chengdu took out 7 billion yuan to be responsible for the construction of factories and supporting facilities, as well as the formation of R&D, operation and logistics teams.
Later, GF allegedly came up with $34 million (about 2.).200 million yuan) to reconcile, but the project has been unfinished, which makes people sigh.
Recently, it was reported that this well-known chip unfinished project ushered in a receiver, that is, Huahong Group, which is also a chip foundry company.
In the ranking of the world's top 10 chip foundry companies, Huahong ranks 6th in the world, and ranks second in Chinese mainland, second only to SMIC.
At present, the gate of the project has been replaced with the logo of "Hua Hong Integrated Circuit (Chengdu)**, which means that Hua Hong has officially settled in, and Hua Hong Integrated Circuit (Chengdu)** has also been officially established, with a registered capital of 22.8 billion yuan.
According to the report, after Huahong took over the project, it continued to build it into a 12-inch wafer factory, and the process is 40nm 45nm This grade, it is not ruled out that the follow-up process will be upgraded, I don't know what you think about this
According to the agency's **, in 2023, Chinese mainland's mature wafer production capacity will account for about 29% of the world, ranking first in the world, and will continue to grow, by 2027, Chinese mainland's mature chip production capacity will account for 33% of the world, thereby reducing dependence on foreign production capacity, and Huahong is obviously walking such a road of expansion.