In smart electronic devices, the most critical hardware is undoubtedly chips. my country has always been a major chip consumption and sales country, and chip consumption is one of the best in the world. However, for chips, my country has always used most of the imported and purchased methods for use. Until recently, the chip supply of Huawei Huawei , a well-known technology company in my country, was cut off, and "domestic chip manufacturing" was pushed to the forefront. Today, Huawei has not been able to get out of the predicament, resulting in Waterloo.
Once talked about my country's chip manufacturing, it once had a very low presence. We can find problems from the published data. In 2016, my country's chip consumption accounted for 60.5% of the world's global chip sales, while my country's chip manufacturing sales were only 13 billion yuan, which was 3.8% of global chip sales. In contrast, the United States and South Korea, which account for 11.4% of sales, chip manufacturing accounts for more than 60% of the world.
In recent years, with the unremitting efforts of my country to develop the chip manufacturing industry, many technology companies have emerged to change the dilemma of my country in the chip manufacturing industry. These include but are not limited to SMIC , Huahong Group, Huarun Micro , Silan Micro , Changxin Storage and other technology companies. What we are going to talk about today is SMIC, a leading chip manufacturing company in my country.
In the entry of Baidu Encyclopedia , we will see a prominent introduction about SMIC "a large-scale and advanced integrated circuit chip manufacturing enterprise in mainland China", with an annual turnover of 21.493 billion yuan and 17,967 employees. In the second quarter of 2022, the global wafer foundry industry ranked fifth, with the top three being TSMC, Samsung , and UMC .
What everyone is most concerned about is SMIC's specific business capabilities, not company introduction, so let's learn about it together below.
Currently, the world's most advanced chip is the 4nm process, which is mastered by Samsung and TSMC, and according to the plan, it has recently carried out 3nm chip research and development. SMIC currently has the most advanced process as 14nm chips, 28nm is SMIC's mature technology, and 28nm chips are also SMIC's largest proportion, and it has invested a lot of money to increase the production capacity of 28nm chips. When you hear this, you may wonder why SMIC is committed to the production of the mature 28nm chip, rather than developing higher-level chips. Here we need to understand that 28nm is indeed very behind for 3 and 4nm, but 28nm chips are always a hot item. In addition to smartphone products, many smart devices such as smart TV chips, car chips, etc. do not require cutting-edge chips. In the global sales share, 28nm chip technology can produce 77% of chips. According to statistics from well-known foreign media organizations, the proportion of mature process chips remains high and always remains above 75%. According to forecasts, mature process chips will always maintain a high proportion in the next few years, which is also the main reason why SMIC spends huge amounts of money to expand the production capacity of 28nm chips.
below to solve some friends’ doubts about SMIC.
Why doesn’t SMIC provide foundry chips to Huawei? (Why doesn't Huawei let SMIC manufacture chips?)
SMIC currently has advanced technology of 14nm, and mobile phone chip mostly adopts the world's most advanced technology. SMIC currently cannot produce high-end chips suitable for Huawei mobile phone .
Recently, many US companies have stated that refusal to use mainland chips will have an impact on SMIC?
Among the ten main customer groups of SMIC, only Qualcomm and Botong are American companies, and the rest are Chinese companies. In general, it will be affected to a certain extent, but not much.
We believe that one day our chip manufacturing industry will stand out and stand at the top. What do you think of SMIC? Let’s discuss it together in the comment section!
