China's chip equipment broke the monopoly of the United States, Japan and Europe, and the world's 8th largest enterprise was born!
We all know that semiconductor equipment, semiconductor materials, electronic design, IP, etc. are the most important links in the IC industry. Among them, the design and production of chips are intermediate links, while packaging and testing are downstream links.
From past experience, there are constraints on the middle and bottom, so the design and production of ICs are subject to the constraints of semiconductor hardware, materials, electronic design, IP, etc.
At present, the United States, Japan and Europe dominate, while Japan, the United States and Europe occupy more than 90% of the market share.
As a result, China's wafer production relies heavily on the introduction of such products from the United States, Japan, Europe and other places, such as Applied Materials of the United States, Kelai, Tokyo Electric of Japan, and ASML of Europe.
However, what is clear is that the United States, together with Japan, the Netherlands and other countries, has curbed China's chip industry and exported high-end semiconductor devices to China, in an attempt to comprehensively carry out China's 14 nm logic chips, 128-layer NAND flash memory, and 18 nm DRAM.
In the face of such a situation, we can only continue to look for technological breakthroughs and break through technical barriers from our own chip technology.
One of China's largest semiconductor device manufacturers recently reported good news that it has ranked among the world's top 10 in 2023 thanks to the strong support of a number of domestic foundry companies.
The company's previously released annual report showed that its operating income for the year was 2097-231.000 million, an increase of 42 over the same period last year77%-57.27%, that is, Hualong Dragon. The company's net profit is expected to be 361-41.5 billion, an increase of 5344%-76.39%。
From the above data, it can be seen that Hualong is currently the only Chinese company in the world to rank among the world's top 10, and it is also a big victory for the long-term monopoly position of the United States, Japan and European manufacturers.
It is worth mentioning that most of the top ten production regions last year were these three production regions, while Chinese mainland companies were basically not on the list.
The company is mainly engaged in ion etching, PVD, chemical vapor deposition, atomic chromatography, tube furnace, cleaning and other fields. In terms of the precision of processing, some instruments have entered the level of 10 nm and 7 nm, and many instruments have entered the higher technical level such as 14 nm.
Obviously, if Chinese companies study carefully, they can also achieve good results in the field of semiconductor devices, and we also look forward to more breakthroughs from companies like Hualong so that China's chip industry no longer worries about production.