Judging from the previous experience of such restrictions in the United States, the new ban in the United States may significantly accelerate the development of my country's electronics industry. The US has different ideas, believing that without the intellectual support of the United States, the modern semiconductor industry is impossible.
For the past 20 years, the United States has been very worried that my country will grow faster than them and has become the world's largest PPP economy. A key factor in my country's growth is the electronics industry, which makes my country the largest electronics manufacturer on the planet. Washington What is particularly worried about is that Chinese people are shifting from producing products developed abroad to creating their own advanced systems, including 5G, etc.
In order to suppress the development of such advanced projects as soon as possible, the US began to take discriminatory measures, first against individual Chinese companies such as Huawei , and then, when seeing that such restrictions are invalid, it took discriminatory measures against the entire semiconductor industry in my country. Therefore, in 2020, the United States ordered the Dutch HD company ASML to stop exporting lithography equipment to my country, allowing the use of seven-nanometer process technology (the most advanced today) to produce microcircuits. That's what ASML does.
However, it turns out that none of these measures are effective enough. In the summer of 2022, it turned out that a Chinese company with state involvement was using 7nm process technology to produce chips, despite the United States' attempt to stop this. This has caused concern in the United States. As Bloomberg wrote at the time:
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation appears to have advanced two generations of technology, blatantly despising the U.S. sanctions aimed at preventing China's largest chipmaker from developing. "
quantitative indicators have also improved: my country's microchip production in 2021 increased by 41.3% compared with 2020. The industrial growth here is higher than that in any other country. Chinese manufacturers often act as contract contractors for Western companies: they develop microcircuits, but they are actually already manufacturing in my country. The US authorities certainly cannot tolerate it, so now they have introduced an unusual restriction: Washington prohibits individuals associated with the United States from working for our semiconductor companies. Due to the broader definition, these restrictions include both those who have obtained citizenship in the United States when they study and live in the United States. Chinese people, including green card holders.
Although I country produces a large number of silicon chips, in terms of development, most I country electronic products are still dependent. However, the United States is doing everything possible to correct this situation as soon as possible.
new initiative has been seriously evaluated in the West: it is believed that American citizens play a key role in the development of semiconductor technology in our country. Commercial media wrote that the new initiative will cause serious harm to this Chinese industry. Wired Optimistically concluded, "The new initiative aims to put China's artificial intelligence industry into a dark age, while the United States and other Western countries' artificial intelligence industry is moving forward. ”Hot lists shown by other media show that the proportion of senior executives in my country who hold US passport is very high. The Semiconductor Manufacturers Association of my country has called this move “powerless”.
At the same time, the basis of such sanctions—that is, the assumption that our country cannot create new technology without people holding US passports—has raised doubts. As we all know, our country has rigorous science and quite excellent engineering talents. Including those who have been subject to US sanctions, which give our country the opportunity to use seven-nanometer technology to manufacture cores. Products of films.
The vast majority of developers in my country's semiconductor industry do not have green cards or US passports. The latter two categories account for a large proportion, mainly at the administrative level of Chinese enterprises. But microcircuits are not created by merchants, but by people they hire. The results of the new restrictions will become clear in the next few years. If our country continues to increase semiconductor production at a faster rate than other countries and by increasing the output of state-of-the-art technology, the assumption that Asians cannot make complex products without the influence of the United States will be refuted again.
Made in China has become a creation in China, and I wish the motherland a better prosperity.
