Text | Tech Jun
It is also important to recognize the reality, about the chip, Huawei gives a decision!
Last year, the domestic media broke the news that Huawei intends to build the first chip manufacturing factory in Wuhan, which will be used for the manufacture of HiSilicon chips in the future!
Huawei has built its own chip manufacturing plant, which is to take the route of chip research and development and manufacturing integration?
At that time, the outside world had mixed evaluations of this news.
Some people think that this is a good thing, since TSMC, Samsung and other chip foundry companies can not give Huawei foundry chips under the influence of the United States, then Huawei will manufacture its own chips to completely solve the problem of being stuck in the neck.
Another part of the netizens believe that there are too many industries involved in chip manufacturing, semiconductor materials, lithography machines, etc. are inseparable mountains, if Huawei chooses to build its own chip factory, the pressure on the enterprise is too great, and a little carelessness may be crushed to pieces.
Huawei built its own chip factory, is this reliable? From a technical point of view, what is the probability of success? Let's analyze it.
First of all, according to Huawei's current situation, the success rate of Huawei's choice of self-built chip factory is almost equal to zero.
Don't rush to refute it, let's take a look at the example, the domestic SMIC, in the field of chip manufacturing for more than a decade, and finally barely achieved 14nm chip mass production in previous years.
And this is still done under the premise of buying foreign lithography machines and semiconductor materials.
But what about Huawei? Because of the ban on the Old America, it is basically impossible to buy foreign lithography machines and semiconductor materials, and the most advanced lithography machine produced by the domestic energy at this stage is the lithography machine of the 90nm process, relying on this lithography machine, you say huawei can produce top performance chips?
It is basically impossible, and at most it will produce some low-end chips.
And even if the problem of the lithography machine is solved, how to solve the problem of semiconductor materials? You know, in the 19 kinds of necessary materials for chip production, 14 of them have been monopolized by Japan, and Japan, and Lao Mei's loyal follow-up, now you think that Huawei's own chip-making plan may be successful?
Even, even if Huawei can overcome and produce the problems of lithography machines and semiconductor materials mentioned above, how much time, energy and cost should be spent during this period?
With Huawei's current state, can it support this consumption?
The fact that Huawei wants to build its own chips is really morale-boosting, and if it can really be done, it is indeed a good thing. However, in the case that the external environment is no longer conducive to Huawei, it is indeed not an easy task for Huawei to build its own chip manufacturing factory.
Sometimes it's also important to recognize reality.
Speaking of chips, at the recent 19th Huawei Analyst Conference, Huawei also gave a decision.
Quoting Huawei's managing director Wang Tao: Chip manufacturing involves a long production chain, and no company, including Huawei, can solve this problem on its own, and if you want to really solve the problem, you need to rely on the joint efforts of the global industrial chain.
"Chip manufacturing requires the joint efforts of the global industrial chain"! Obviously, on the issue of chip manufacturing, Huawei has a very clear understanding, or that Huawei also recognizes the reality and does not think that the whole process of chip research and development to manufacturing can be solved by relying on the strength of one enterprise.
Huawei does not intend to build its own chip factory to make chips, which is Huawei's official decision, and it is also a positive response to the "Huawei will make its own chip factory to make chips" spread on the Internet.
For such a result, from the perspective of personal emotions, there will certainly be a hint of disappointment, but from a rational point of view, we have to admit that Huawei made a correct decision. What do you think?