The United States suppressed Chinese companies, but accidentally injured the "same kind", and the European collective is unwilling to stand by coldly
In recent years, the United States has abused state power on the grounds of security to suppress Chinese companies without a bottom line and unreasonably, and ZTE, Huawei and other companies have suffered greatly, especially Huawei's mobile phone, 5G and other businesses have declined very seriously under the sanctions of the United States.
However, the U.S. crackdown on Chinese companies is actually the"Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself"In fact, Huawei has also been seriously affected, the original annual revenue was once close to 900 billion yuan, and now it is only more than 600 billion yuan, but at the same time, the United States and its affiliated enterprises have also been affected.
For example, PC chip giant Intel will be deeply affected in 2022, and Intel recently announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022, in which the total revenue in the fourth quarter was $14 billion, down 32% from $20.5 billion in the same period last year, reaching the lowest figure since 2016.
Intel's full-year revenue in 2022 is also not ideal, with total revenue of $63.1 billion, down 20% year-on-year, and net profit of $8 billion, down 60% year-on-year, far lower than expected revenue, resulting in Intel's market capitalization falling from $200 billion at the beginning of 2022 to $120 billion.
It is understood that Intel's revenue has reached a new low, mainly due to the change of chip rules, the change of chip rules has led to some of Intel's products can not be shipped for free, although Intel is the first batch of companies to obtain a license, but did not get all the products.
Intel's restricted chips are mainly concentrated in high-performance chips and GPU chips, and a large number of chips cannot be sold to Chinese companies such as Huawei, which affects Intel's revenue to a certain extent.
In fact, it is not only Intel that is affected, but also the shipments of American chip companies such as Qualcomm also experienced a serious decline last year, because the number of chips imported by Chinese companies has dropped sharply, and the number of imported chips in 2022 will be about 538.4 billion, a year-on-year decrease of about 97 billion.
The decline in demand for imported chips, in addition to market dynamics, is also related to the increase in domestic chips under the pressure of the United States, and many Chinese companies have announced their entry into the semiconductor field.
In the past two years, semiconductor companies such as SMIC and UNISOC have been fully developed.
In the field of PC chips, Loongson has also developed successfully, and its performance has been comprehensively improved, and YMTC's flash memory chips have also reached the global advanced level.
In this context, the semiconductor companies of the United States and its allies are naturally anxious, Intel has suffered a year of disaster, while drastically cutting wages and benefits, there are also a large number of layoffs, and some semiconductor companies in Europe naturally cannot sit idly by and begin to violate the requirements of the United States.
The CEO of Dutch lithography giant ASML said that the U.S.-led measures against China's semiconductor export controls will eventually lead to China's successful development of its own technology in the field of high-quality wafer manufacturing equipment.
In addition, many European countries are also directly challenging the United States. Despite the constant pressure from the United States to get rid of China's leading companies represented by Huawei, European countries are still addicted to Chinese equipment.
A recent study of 31 European countries by a research firm showed that by the end of 2022, Chinese companies provided more than 50% of 5G equipment to eight European countries, and countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Austria and Spain are still buying Chinese 5G equipment in large quantities.
In Germany in particular, 59% of 5GRAN devices in 2022 will come from Chinese suppliers, while in Cyprus, 100% of 5G network equipment will come from Chinese suppliers.
The United Kingdom, which is also an important ally of the United States, has chosen to take steps to ban Huawei from signing new contracts, but 41% of its 5G networks are still installed by Chinese companies, with a deadline of removing these devices by the end of 2027.
It can be seen that European countries are very dependent on Chinese companies to build 5G networks, and it will not work for the United States to ask European countries to ban Chinese equipment, and Europe will collectively stand up against it.
Therefore, although the United States is suppressing Chinese companies, it is putting"own people"In the future, the United States will only be more discredited, and more and more countries and companies will remain on the opposite side of the United States.
China will only become stronger and stronger under these rounds of sanctions by the United States, and the relevant industrial chain will be more developed, as we know"If you fall behind, you will be beaten", the future is destined to be even stronger!