If Chinese chooses representatives of Chinese technology companies, then Huawei must be the most vocal, and all this comes from Huawei's "willingness". For example, in 2022, Huawei invested 130 billion yuan in R&D, the fifth in the world and the first in China.
This is not the first time Huawei has dominated the list, the data shows that in the past 10 years, Huawei has always been the first place in China's R&D capital investment, even after being unfairly sanctioned, Huawei's R&D funds have not dropped significantly, and it is Huawei's willingness to invest, so that it has today's status and image.
Huawei's main business is communication equipment, its scale has achieved the world's first, 5G communication technology is also the world's first, the side business is consumer products, of which the performance of Huawei mobile phones is particularly prominent, before being sanctioned has been on the world's first throne, it can be said to punch Samsung, kick Apple.
The reason why it can be achieved to this extent has a lot to do with Huawei's self-developed Kirin chips, and our common chips in the mobile phone industry are Qualcomm and MediaTek, as well as Apple chips and Samsung chips that are not sold to the outside world, and Kirin chips have competed with these chips, and their performance is not inferior to them.
Perhaps it is precisely because Huawei's Kirin chip is too powerful, and it is China's self-developed chip, which has an impact on American chips and downstream industries, and the United States has chosen to sanction Huawei with the power of one country, resulting in a disconnection of Huawei's Kirin chip, a drop in mobile phone business, a shrinkage in the consumer industry, and a significant decline in revenue.
Even in this case, Huawei has not given up chip research and development, after all, Ren Zhengfei knows that only chips from his own are the way to truly break through the US blockade. Perhaps frightened by Huawei's resilience and strength, the United States decided to further sanction China's chip industry, including sanctions on manufacturing equipment lithography machines.
Nowadays, Chinese chips are facing huge challenges, whether it is chip design software, chip manufacturing process or chip manufacturing equipment lithography machine, we need to make a breakthrough little by little. Instead of compromise, China has increased support for the chip industry, and it is reported that China will launch a 1 trillion yuan semiconductor industry support plan, aiming to break through the US blockade.
However, a recent news still gave us chills. The data shows that in 2022, China's chip companies will be written off as high as 5,746, 1.5 times that of 2021, which also means that China's chip development is not easy, especially some small and medium-sized enterprises, often close down before industrialization, only input but no output.
Thinking of the huge subsidy policy introduced by China, this has to make people wonder whether it is under the high subsidy policy that a large number of chip companies have been registered, and then cancelled the company with subsidies? After all, the lessons of the Hanxin incident and the Hongxin incident are still vividly remembered.
Of course, chip research and development itself is difficult, and a well-known person once admitted that it is much more difficult to build chips than atomic bombs. This is not alarmist, the EUV lithography machine alone has 100,000 components, and each piece is from the top companies in the industry, so far no country can be caused alone, even the Netherlands has only completed the assembly of the EUV lithography machine.
In addition, making chips also requires a large number of talents, as Ren Zhengfei said: "It is not enough to break through the chip blockade and have money, but also talents, especially top scientists." This is because chips involve too many fields, physics, chemistry, optics, materials science, etc., and all aspects of the picture need the support of top scientists.
However, most of the talents from China's top universities have gone to build the United States, and even the top talents from other universities have gone to build the United States. Take the previously released list of the "World's Top 100 Materials Scientists", the top six are all Chinese, but they basically work in the United States.
Ren Zhengfei once said: "Let China's chicken, put the egg in China's basket", for this reason Huawei launched the world's top talent recruitment plan, in order to collect high-end talents, but the reality is that too many high-end talents are left outside, in the face of the previous situation, can Ren Zhengfei not be heartbroken?
Fortunately, in the context of the global economic depression, the major chip giants in the United States have ushered in a large-scale brain drain, and many of them have chosen to return to China, which is good news for China's chip development, and as China's research and development environment is getting better and better, many talents from other countries have come to China to help China's scientific and technological development.
The wheel of history has been moving forward, the times are constantly changing, and today's China's R&D environment is getting better and better, plus we already know that we can no longer have illusions, we must rely on independent research and development to walk out of the road of self-improvement, I believe that under the joint efforts of policies, funds and talents, China Core will definitely be able to break through the blockade!