In recent years, the semiconductor industry in the mainland has developed rapidly, and the journey in 5 years is worth 10 years or even 20 years in countries such as Laos and the United States. In the face of the rapid development of the mainland's semiconductor industry, Lao Mei is not calm, and unites a group of small partners to suppress the mainland's semiconductor industry.
The United States was the first to start Huawei, Huawei has excellent chip design capabilities, so the United States restricted chip foundries such as TSMC and Samsung to Huawei to produce Kirin chips with advanced technology.
Of course, there are also strong chip foundries in the mainland and mainland China, which can also produce chips with more advanced processes, such as SMIC, which has mature chip foundry capabilities. For this reason, the United States has restricted Nikon, Canon, and ASML from selling mid-to-high-end lithography machines to mainland manufacturers such as SMIC. Without mid-to-high-end lithography machines, SMIC can only produce chips with relatively backward technology even if it has advanced technology.
From restricting chip foundries to restricting the sale of lithography machines, these two measures of Lao Mei caught the mainland semiconductor industry off guard, which made many netizens indignant.
No way, although the mainland semiconductor industry is developing rapidly, we must also be soberly aware that there are still these problems in the development of the mainland semiconductor industry, such as late start, short time, insufficient foundation, weak core technology, shortage of advanced equipment and other problems.
It is difficult to completely solve these problems in a short period of time, and it is difficult to do it in more than 10 years. So how do you avoid these problems? The answer is to change tracks and continue to compete. Thankfully, this track has emerged, and that is the photonic chip. It is precisely because of the emergence of photonic chips that the pattern of the semiconductor industry has undergone new changes. In this regard, some foreign media said: After all, it can't be stopped.
It is reported that the photonic chip is a new type of optical device for matrix parallel computing, which is different from our common mobile phone chips, PC chips, memory chips and other silicon-based chips, it has the advantages of low power consumption and ultra-high speed, and its running speed can be increased by 1000 times, which is more suitable for artificial intelligence algorithm operation.
In addition, photonic chips also have a major advantage, that is, they do not need EUV lithography machines to participate, which avoids the constraints of the United States, the Netherlands and other countries in lithography machines.
It can be seen that photonic chips and the silicon-based chips we use now are two different tracks. If everyone enters the photonic chip market, then everyone is starting on the same level, and there is no way that you are leading in technology and equipment, and then you can suppress me through the leadership of technology and equipment.
In fact, it is true that now the world's major semiconductor manufacturers have begun to enter the field of photonic chips, including many institutions and technology companies in the United States have invested in R&D in this field, which shows that photonic chips are the development of the semiconductor market.
Thankfully, Continental has achieved a phased lead in the field of photonic chips, why do you say that?
First, the mainland's Vision 2035 outline mentions photonic chips, and also indicates that photonic chips are one of the ways to avoid repression.
Second, Mainland's electronic technology group company has built a photonic chip production line and has the ability to mass-produce photonic chips. This fully shows that the mainland has entered the application stage from the theoretical stage in the photonic chip industry, which is still relatively leading in the world.
Third, mainland scientific research institutions and semiconductor companies have achieved a number of breakthroughs in photonic chip technology. For example, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' 3nm photonic chip transistor technology has achieved a breakthrough to provide technical support for the mass production of 3nm photonic chips. There is also the probe electrical measurement platform technology developed by Hefei Origin Electronics Co., Ltd., which can provide equipment technical support for the manufacture of photonic chips.
It is not difficult to find that in the field of photonic chips, the mainland has reached the first echelon in the world, which shows that the change of direction of the mainland semiconductor industry is completely achievable.
Summary:
For a long time, the mainland semiconductor industry has adhered to the development model of global cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win in the semiconductor industry. It's just that some countries can't see the development speed of the mainland's semiconductor industry, so they use the "first-mover advantage" to suppress the development of the mainland's semiconductor industry.
In this context, photonic chips have become one of the ways to avoid suppression, and they have also become a new track in the semiconductor industry. The mainland has achieved a number of technological breakthroughs in the field of photonic chips, which shows that it has become possible for the mainland semiconductor industry to change lanes, and because of this, some foreign media said: The development of the mainland semiconductor industry cannot be stopped after all.