The United States ** said that TSMC will not fall to Chinese mainland.
As we all know, in the field of chip manufacturing, TSMC is a monument that no one can surpass for the time being.
In the field of integrated circuit technology, TSMC has mastered the world's most important 3nm process, and the 3nm yield has also reached a very high level, making it difficult to catch up with Samsung.
In terms of production capacity, TSMC ranks first in the world, receiving about 55% of chip foundry orders in the United States, and previous data shows that TSMC produces 90% of chips below 7nm.
That's why major U.S. integrated circuit design companies, such as Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, NVIDIA, etc., have handed over all their integrated circuits to TSMC foundry, which has become an integral part of the U.S. integrated circuit industry.
For such a company, the United States must be cautious, must unite, must suppress, and be more vigilant, after all, the lifeblood of the American tablet industry, its performance seems to be trapped in the hands of TSMC.
At present, China's tablet manufacturing industry lags behind the international top level, is stuck in the neck, and because TSMC is owned by Taiwan, in essence, it is still a Chinese enterprise, so it has always been said that if TSMC falls to Chinese mainland, Chinese mainland will not worry about tablet manufacturing, so the United States should be nervous.
After all, since TSMC is not a chip foundry for the United States, all chip companies in Chinese mainland are foundries for chips, so the United States is indeed in a situation where there is no artificial core, while Chinese mainland has the most important chip manufacturing capacity.
Is this really the case? Some time ago, Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spoke about this issue.
According to him, this kind of problem is not worrying at all, TSMC is highly dependent on the global ** chain, as long as the US ** chain is broken, TSMC will be destroyed in a flash.
In other words, the United States can eliminate TSMC at any time, so TSMC does not have such a possibility, and the United States is not worried about TSMC falling into the hands of Chinese mainland.
This sentence is very straightforward, but we have to admit that it is true, because the reason why TSMC can become the world's leading chip manufacturing factory is not only because it has mastered the most advanced technology, but also because it uses the best equipment and materials in the world.
For example, the EUV lithography machine comes from ASML, and other chip equipment and materials may come from Applied Materials, Kolei, Tokyo Electron...
Data shows that in the field of semiconductor equipment, the United States, Japan and Europe currently account for about 80% of the share of semiconductor materials.
TSMC relies on equipment and materials from the United States, Japan and Europe to achieve such results, since there is no equipment and materials, TSMC has hollowed out all the technology, and it can't play its due strength, because there is no equipment, materials, and chips can't be rubbed by hand, and the United States is not worried about TSMC.
Similarly, if Chinese mainland can take over the wafer ** chain, such as EUV lithography machines, self-testing, and other equipment and materials, which can be self-sufficient, then TSMC can also purchase these equipment and materials in Chinese mainland, which can get rid of dependence on the United States, Japan and Europe, and thus be more free.
Therefore, in fact, not only the factories in Chinese mainland, but also the factories around the world, everyone hopes that Chinese mainland can make a breakthrough in the industrial chain, everyone has more choices, and the degree of freedom is higher.