Giving up the EUV lithography machine, Chinese companies have already moved, the United States think tank is helpless, and foreign media: they have admitted defeat.
Abandoning EUV lithography technology, Chinese companies have already acted, American think tanks are powerless, and foreign ** have already conceded defeat!
After 2019,"glue"This"Buzzwords"It has been mentioned repeatedly, which means that some of the restrictions in the West will have an impact on our science and technology, in other words, what they have and we don't. These include control systems, semiconductor wafer production equipment, and industrial machinery.
As Europe and the United States have successively ordered TSMC and Samsung Electronics to stop **Huawei chips, which are semiconductor chips"Stuck neck"The problem has also been raised again and again, among which the lithography machine is at the center of attention, which is in the domestic chip production equipment"The shelf is the shortest"one. In addition, the development of lithography machine is also the most difficult, because the lithography machine involves the entire industrial chain, so the production of lithography machine is very difficult.
So when there is a breakthrough in EUV lithography in China, a similar situation will occur in China.
There is no doubt about this, but it cannot be said that it is completely unfounded, look at the revised Kirin 9000 s chip launched by Huawei at the end of August 2023, the lithography process does not represent any substantial progress, even if we don't know the production process of the Kirin chip, but we know that this is a process that is completely incompatible with the European and American technological systems, otherwise Biden must be angry now"Jumping feet"。
When everyone is paying attention to the progress of China's chip technology, the American think tank --"Silicon-based photonics has become a new battleground in the technology war between China and the United States, and it will change the landscape of the entire semiconductor industry"。
Unlike current electronic chips, optical chips use photons instead of electrons to transmit information, as stated in this article. The convergence of photonics and electronics enables large-scale computing with greater bandwidth and greater energy efficiency, surpassing the physical limits of current electronics.
In fact, it's inevitable. In the past three years, the world has announced that silicon chips have reached their physical limits, and after that, the size of chips will become smaller and smaller, and even quantum tunneling will occur, which will affect the basic computing power of chips.
Today, the world is coming together to find a new way forward, and photonics is undoubtedly an excellent choice. Chinese"14th Five-Year Plan"Planning and"Vision 2035"Photonics is already seen as a means of getting rid of the control of Western technology.
Now that China's Zhongke Information and Communications Corporation is preparing to build a photonic chip production line, it shows that Chinese companies are being consulted, and the results are likely to be good, otherwise American think tanks would certainly be worried.
With light as a breakthrough, we are abandoning extreme ultraviolet lithography and quantum chip research, establishing a complete localized industrial chain from architecture to design and production, and eliminating Western countries"Stuck neck"possibilities.
In the case of automobiles, we cannot deny that we cannot compare with the United States, Japan or South Korea when it comes to cars powered by conventional fuels, but it doesn't matter, we can choose other paths that allow us to lead the world in the field of new energy.
Again, if we use traditional chips, we may be one step behind, but if we switch to a new track, we still have a silver lining because we have never failed on the same starting line.
But now it seems that Biden is afraid of being slapped hard, because since last year, the United States has suffered a big loss in the field of semiconductors, and now it has suffered a big loss in emerging fields, and even American think tanks are skeptical about it, is this considered a towel?