TSMC Samsung stated that China's independent development of science and technology will no longer compromise!
As we all know, the United States has been cracking down on China's semiconductor industry in recent years, imposing various restrictions on Huawei from the beginning, such as modifying Huawei's chips, resulting in the suspension of Kirin chips produced by Huawei, resulting in a shortage of chips. Subsequently, the United States** also launched a chip subsidy program of up to 52 billion yuan to encourage world-renowned semiconductor companies such as TSMC and Samsung to set up factories in the United States to further strengthen the influence of American chips in the world.
Although the United States is the cradle of the semiconductor industry and has strong technical strength, its chipmaker Intel can only occupy 1% of the market share, which is difficult for Biden to accept.
As a result, they lured TSMC, Samsung and other companies to the United States with a large number of subsidies to establish a complete integrated circuit industry chain, and signed contracts with the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands"Tripartite agreement", further restrictions on semiconductor equipment from China.
After a series of measures taken in the United States, TSMC had to abandon the construction of a mature factory in Nanjing and instead invested heavily in a new factory in the United States, which is now in production. The wafer fabs built by South Korea in China, such as Samsung and Hynix, have also been hampered by the US ban, and many US wafer companies investing in China have been forced to withdraw from China.
Neither Intel nor Qualcomm wants to lose the Chinese market, but due to the strict regulation of the chip industry in the United States, it is difficult for them to obtain a license and eventually be regulated.
Clearly, Biden is determined to slow down the development of China's semiconductor industry, even for American companies.
But Biden obviously underestimated the Chinese market, China, as the world's largest chip consumer market, is not only the core of the United States, many foreign companies have achieved great success in China, especially in recent years, China has made a series of progress in chips and equipment, and it is unrealistic to completely suppress China's semiconductor industry.
Biden is very proud of Huawei's Kirin 9000 because it reaches the 7nm processing level without outside help.
Immediately afterwards, Huawei also announced that it would suspend the acquisition of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips, which means that Kirin's production is back on track, while Qualcomm's mobile phone SoC chips in cooperation with Huawei have lost nearly 40 million. Now, it is obviously unlikely that leading American companies want to send chips back to China, and foreign media have also issued articles saying that China has stopped eating this set.
Immediately afterwards, the attitudes of TSMC and Samsung became ambiguous, TSMC"It's worth a lot of money", rejected the request of the United States to provide huge subsidies for tablets and tried to return to the Chinese market.
Curiously, Biden had promised Samsung and TSMC to invest in China, promised TSMC to restart the 28nm process in Nanjing, promised Samsung and Hynix permanent immunity, but now these semiconductor companies are self-sufficient and everything is in vain.