Due to well-known reasons, the chip industry is now the most popular industry. Although China's chips have made great progress in recent years, many chip technologies are still subject to control. However, when carefully analyzing these talents who have mastered key chip technologies, they found that many chip technologies are Chinese.
At present, the EUV lithography machine is hindering the development of advanced chip process processes. However, what you don’t know is that the current lithography machine core technology is from TSMC’s tech expert Lin Benjian . In early 2000, Lin Benjian developed the immersive lithography machine technology. At that time, Japanese manufacturers such as Canon and Nikon, which dominated the lithography machine market, were unwilling to adopt and insisted on dry lithography machine technology. However, ASML took the initiative to find TSMC. As a result, ASML developed immersive lithography machine technology, and TSMC and ASML grew together to become leaders in the chip industry.
In the PC processor market, Intel has dominated for more than 20 years. However, what the industry is not clear is that the technical talent leading Intel's PC processor business back then was a Chinese. His name was Yu Youcheng . After Intel's memory chip business declined, Yu Youcheng believed that PC would be an opportunity, so he made every effort to promote the development of PC processors. The 386 processor promoted by him opened up the PC market. Later, 486, Pentium processor , etc. were led by him, and PCs were also rapidly popular, and IBM declined as a result.
It is worth noting that Su Zifeng, who is also in the PC processor market, is also a Chinese. AMD sold the chip manufacturing business and established the GPU , which was later established. However, it continued to decline. Su Zifeng was ordered to lead AMD in the face of danger. Under Su Zifeng's leadership, AMD even had to sell office buildings at the most difficult time and then rent them back to raise funds to develop the Zen architecture. The emergence of the Zen architecture made AMD turnaround, defeating Intel in the desktop PC processor market, and AMD's market value also surpassed Intel.
In addition to these people, there are also NVIDIA founder Huang Renxun , Marvell founder Dai Weili, etc. It is understood that the top 6 well-known chip technology experts in the world are all Chinese, and 5 of them graduated from China University of Science and Technology ; Silicon Valley has many technical engineers who are Chinese, which shows that Chinese people are indeed unique in chip technology research and development.
What is regrettable is that the chip patents developed by these overseas Chinese are now stuck in the development of China's chip industry and have become a major obstacle to technological breakthroughs in China's chip industry, which is quite worth thinking about; of course, this is also related to China's previous weak technology. Fortunately, we have now deeply realized the importance of chip technology and have begun to vigorously develop and attract overseas talents to return.
Zhang Rujing founded by , SMIC, has now become China's largest chip manufacturing company and has entered the top five in the world. The gap with GF, which is fourth, is narrowing. Perhaps SMIC will surpass GF and become the fourth largest chip manufacturing company in the world within this year. He is also praised as the father of Chinese chips.
In recent years, SMIC has encountered obstacles in the research and development of chip manufacturing processes. TSMC's former senior technical expert Liang Mengsong joined as co-CEO of SMIC. Liang Mengsong promoted SMIC to break through the 14nm process and is now promoting the N+1 and N+2 processes when it is difficult to buy EUV optical technology.
In addition, many returning talents from studying abroad in China's memory chip , 5G RF chips and other industries have also participated. The domestic memory chip industry has even welcomed the founder of the former Japanese memory chip giant Erbida , Sakamoto Yukio , highlighting that the prosperity of China's chip industry is attracting many chip technical talents, including overseas Chinese, which will promote the continuous breakthrough of Chinese chips.
In fact, China's chips are making more and more achievements in the past two years. Nissan chips have exceeded 1 billion, and domestic chip replacement has made significant progress. Domestic chips have even begun to gain recognition from overseas companies. Data from the first seven months of this year showed that China's chip imports have decreased by 43 billion, and chip exports have increased by more than 20%, highlighting that China's chips have differentiated competitive advantages in some fields.
The achievements made by Chinese people in the overseas chip industry prove that the Chinese people are indeed talented in chip technology research and development. As my country's chip industry is valued, more overseas Chinese have begun to return to China to provide support for the domestic chip industry. One day, Chinese chips will achieve complete independent research and development and will no longer be subject to others.
