The picture shows Midea's home appliances
After being blocked by the United States technology for two years, There is another dark horse in the field of Chinese semiconductors, the original Midea also joined the core-making camp, and announced the success of core-making, its production of MCU control chips can meet the needs of domestic electrical appliances, and midea will further expand the scope of chip research and development, it is expected that the future annual output will be as high as tens of millions, so what does this mean for China? MCU chips, also known as single-chip microcomputer chips, or single-chip microcomputers, are to reduce the frequency and specifications of the central processor appropriately, and integrate memory, counters, peripheral interfaces, and even LCD drive circuits on a single chip to form a chip-level computer.
The picture shows the computer control board
For the United States company, the Chinese people must not be unfamiliar, after all, many people have their own household appliances, in the impression of most people, the United States of the refrigerator air conditioner is a good hand, did not expect to have such extraordinary strength in chip manufacturing, the initial household appliances function is relatively single, do not need to use a complex circuit system to control it, and even only need a switch to achieve the work of electrical appliances, but with the development of science and technology, now household appliances are increasingly developing in the direction of intelligence, A single rice cooker can have a variety of working modes, which can meet different use needs, and the way to achieve the functions of these household appliances is the computer control board, which is equipped with a variety of different chips.
The picture shows the chip
Although these chips are difficult to develop, and it is not difficult to produce, but because China started relatively late, so in the field of these household appliance chips, it was once backward, China is not unable to develop its own chips, the main problem is that the development of chips requires a lot of funds, there must be enough talent reserves, the most critical thing is that it is not possible to infringe on the patents of foreign enterprises, at the same time, although these household appliance chips are in high demand, but the cost is very low, Western companies can not use the monopoly position to harvest, After all, Europe's chips are expensive, China can buy Japan's, if the price increases abroad, domestic chips can also top.
But today is different from the past, the development of the information industry ushered in profound changes, especially the Internet of Things and smart home concept continues to appear, now not only the rice cooker intelligent, a variety of cloud refrigerator cloud air conditioners are also constantly appearing, the emergence of these smart home appliances, not only spawned a larger chip market, but also the requirements for chips have also increased a lot, and even many foreign semiconductor manufacturers because they can not transform in time, have to close the factory, as a leading enterprise of domestic household appliances, the United States naturally to seize this opportunity, Win the chip market for smart homes.
Light research and development of MCU control chip is not nothing, the next step of the United States will also achieve a comprehensive breakthrough in this field, because not only in the field of smart home needs chips, with the advent of the era of internet of everything, human demand for chips will show explosive growth, a variety of intelligent cars, electronic terminal equipment, even including monitoring probes, need to use chips, it is estimated that the United States will produce tens of millions of chips a year is also difficult to meet the needs of the domestic market.
With the leading role of the United States, there will be more and more companies to devote themselves to the semiconductor field, and further promote the development of China's chip industry, and now the United States can still use high-end chips to card China's neck, but according to this momentum of development, ten years later, twenty years later, the United States still dare to sign a chip ban? At that time, the initiative will completely fall into the hands of the Chinese side, and it seems that this is the value of Midea's breakthrough in chip technology.