The United States has tried all kinds of ways to card our necks, and now it has come up with a new trick: card necks in the chip field. The United States not only restricts the export of chips to China, but also prevents others from exporting chips and equipment to China, especially to prevent Dutch lithography machine companies from selling advanced lithography machine products to China.
ASML, the Netherlands
AsML Company of the Netherlands, Chinese name is: Asmail, also translated as: Asmail, is one of the world's largest semiconductor equipment manufacturers, providing key equipment to global integrated circuit manufacturers, almost monopolizing the world lithography machine market. Because its products were greatly affected by the United States, it had to implement the US ban and not sell advanced lithography machines to China. On January 19, Peter Win, CEO of Asmal, said: "We can't sell it to China yet!" Reconfirmation: "No license has been obtained to export the most advanced lithography machines to China. ”
Since we can't buy it with money, we can only develop our own lithography machine products to break the Western blockade. Nowadays, we are investing more and more in the research and development of lithography machines. There is much speculation about this, this time Wen Peter said: "China is unlikely to independently replicate the top lithography technology, because the Dutch company Asmail is relentlessly innovating," and also mentioned a key factor "integration of components that can only be obtained from non-Chinese suppliers." ”
Take a public stand
As the CEO of assML in the Netherlands, Win Peter can not be without a little level, he mentioned that the thing is right, they can use the global resource development, many world-renowned companies to provide support, we do not have such good conditions, but he also knows very well, but also said: "I mean not absolutely impossible, never so absolute, China will definitely try." "Maybe for others, the blockade is a big trouble, but it is different for us, often turning pressure into motivation.
Our blockade by the West did not begin today, many things were banned, but many facts have proved that the blockade is the best driving force for us. When Europe forced us to withdraw from the Galileo plan, we got the Beidou system, and now we are fighting with the GPS system, and after being rejected by the International Space Station, we have got the Tiangong Space Station, and since we are now blocking our lithography machine, why can't we build our own lithography machine?
chip
Perhaps we can ask the question: When will Chinese chips not be stuck in the neck? China's lithography machine manufacturing has begun, domestic chip research and development is also making progress, the purpose of the American card neck has not achieved the effect, but to promote our development, the chip is not as difficult to solve as imagined. It's just that the lithography machine is a little troublesome, for the investment of huge funds, the most difficult to develop semiconductor equipment, is not an easy breakthrough technology, but as the most critical technology for manufacturing chips, we can't give up, one year or two years can't, then ten years and eight years. It doesn't matter how long it takes, China's aerospace industry has gone from being inconspicuous to achieving world attention, and it has taken decades before and after, and now it is just repeating a process of hard struggle.
Lithography machine research and development
Now we need to worry about not us, but our opponents, the Western blockade can only allow us to develop faster, once the completion of the chip upstream and downstream products, the entire chip through, that is not whether the West can block, but the Western chip industry still has the problem of living space, perhaps the consequence is to take other people's way, so that others have no way to go!