Now various countries pay special attention to the development of the chip field, because the improvement of the technical level indicates that there are more profits to be made. The United States has always been a powerful country in the eyes of everyone in the world, and in order to protect its position, it will appropriately suppress other countries in the fields of science and technology and economy.
One of the things that made a lot of noise some time ago was that the United States, the Netherlands and Japan jointly revised the international chip rules, which hit Huawei hard. On the surface, this seems to limit the development process of China's chips, but it has also had an extremely serious impact on the other three countries.
First, Japan's choice
For the various practices of the United States, everyone is also commonplace, after all, what it is best at doing is to use influence to create pressure on other countries, and the three countries have reached an agreement, in order to jointly implement restrictions on advanced chip manufacturing equipment, and they have not disclosed the content of the agreement.
Japan is relatively dependent on the United States in science and technology and economy, and it has also been the number one brother of the United States since ancient times, and the economic situation in the United States has been low in the past two years, which has also had a huge impact on Japan. Not long ago, Japan revealed the news of restrictions, which are restrictions on the export of equipment needed to manufacture advanced semiconductors.
We all know that although the development of Chinese chips is fast, the technology and lithography machine and other equipment are basically imported. Japan's new regulations stipulate that no scientific and technical personnel will be dispatched, and previously sold products will be maintained.
Japan's statement is also forced by the existing pressure, don't look at Japan's small land area, but its science and technology in Asia is one and two, and its high-end chip production and sales, are regulated by the United States, want to gain a foothold in the world, and have a long-term development market, you must obey the United States.
Since the conclusion of the three-country agreement, Japan's attitude has been particularly obvious, constantly catering to the United States, which has also put great pressure on the Netherlands. There are three countries, two of which have made their position clear, and it is clear that this is putting pressure on the Netherlands.
Second, the Netherlands makes a choice
In the face of the current situation, the Netherlands has also had to take action, and recently there has been news about restrictions, claiming to impose new restrictions on the export of semiconductor technology in order to protect the country's security. The news was not an official statement, but a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs to Parliament.
It said they would work with the United States to strengthen export controls for advanced chipmaking equipment, a series of measures that will be introduced before this summer. Both countries have made their own choices, and the United States should be very satisfied when it sees this result.
The development of chips can be divided into multiple parts, and are in the hands of different countries, ASML as a lithography machine giant also spoke out on this, its statement is particularly clear, limiting the level of lithography machines is relatively high, this is also to protect the Chinese market.
In fact, before Japan's statement, we could feel that the Netherlands has been undecided, it has to implement it under the pressure of US policy, but it knows that the Chinese market has huge potential, and it oscillates between the two. After weighing the pros and cons, it finally chose to team up with the United States.
3. SMIC's response
As far as the development of China's chip market is concerned, we have been committed to the research and development of low-end chips, and high-end chips are mainly in the hands of the United States. Now the 28nm process of chips is widely used, we have also been developing and producing this type of chip, so from the Netherlands and Japan and other restrictions issued by the impact on the mainland is not very large.
They want to further suppress Chinese technology, as if using the wrong direction, this does affect the progress of mainland chip research and development, but the mainland's focus is on low-end chips, after they formulated this new regulation, there is no impact on the mainland's order volume.
From the voice of ASML, it can be seen that it still stands in China's team, and in words and deeds to a certain degree of appeasement, the mainland and this enterprise has always had a close relationship, before also imported more than 1,000 lithography machines from this company, SMIC relevant researchers said that now the mainland's production and operation are normal.
The low-end chips we are good at, in fact, DUV is enough, SMIC's 28nm and above mature processes are not affected, hearing this news, the Chinese people are relieved.
summary
From the development trend of the past two years, we found that the future of the mainland's chip market should be handed over to domestic lithography machines, and this sanction by the United States has also stimulated the research and development of the mainland chip field, which is actually an opportunity for us to get rid of foreign monopolies as soon as possible. Want to enter the high-end market, is not an easy task, we have been developing steadily, first the technology of low-end chips and the market consolidation, and then to develop high-end chips, the most important thing for us is to break their own technical barriers, and then no longer limited by other countries. What do you think about this?