Biden Since taking office as President of the United States, he has implemented all-round suppression on China and Russia. Against this background, some important commodities have also become the Biden administration's "killer weapon" in dealing with China and Russia, such as semiconductor chips . Semiconductor chips, known as the "crown jewel" of modern technology and the "food of modern industry", are of great significance to a country's economic development.
From the mobile phones and computers used daily by ordinary people to cars, to industrial control, cloud computing and aerospace and military industries that are not common to ordinary people, they are all inseparable from semiconductor chips. It is precisely because of the indispensability of semiconductor chips that the Biden administration uses semiconductor chips to deal with China and Russia. According to the requirements of the Biden administration, U.S. companies and foreign companies that use U.S. technology are strictly prohibited from exporting high-performance semiconductor chips to Chinese and Russian semiconductor chip companies, and transferring equipment, raw materials, and processes for producing semiconductor chips.
It is undeniable that this policy of the Biden administration has indeed had a relatively large impact on China and Russia. Take the Chinese company Huawei as an example. After the United States banned the sale of chips, Huawei's production and operations suffered a huge Due to difficulties, until now, Huawei has not been able to manufacture mobile phones with 5G communication functions. In the past two years, the share of Huawei mobile phones in the high-end mobile phone market has seriously shrunk. In addition, some Russian weapons and equipment have to be delayed due to lack of chips.
However, according to Professor Lee Gun of Seoul National University in South Korea, the semiconductor chip strategy implemented by the Biden administration towards China and Russia can only be effective in a short period of time. In the future, China will definitely make a leap in semiconductor chip technology and achieve independent supply of semiconductor chips. . In recent years, China has introduced a series of preferential policies to vigorously support the development of the semiconductor chip industry and encourage technicians to innovate. Some results have been achieved so far.
Although there is still a large gap between China's semiconductor chip companies and global semiconductor chip giants in terms of semiconductor chips within the 10-nanometer process , China has mastered the production technology of semiconductor chips with 20-nanometer or 30-nanometer processes. , achieving self-sufficiency, these products can fully meet China's new energy vehicle and aerospace military chip needs. According to statistics, Chinese companies have a very high market share in the global 20nm or 30nm process semiconductor chip trading market.
According to the development rules of semiconductor chip technology, after mastering the production process of a certain specification, sooner or later a more advanced production process will be mastered. Professor Li Gen said that in the short term, the Biden administration's ban on Chinese and Russian semiconductor chip technology will be a pressure, but in the long term, this pressure will eventually turn into motivation and will instead boost the development of China's semiconductor chip technology. .
