Elephants fight, ants suffer, China and the United States two major powers in the field of chips, and in the end, it is Japan, South Korea and other relevant allies who are caught in the middle.
However, for the United States to gradually upgrade its chip export control policy to China, South Korean chip giants do not seem to want to follow the cards. South Korean chip manufacturing giant Hynix recently announced that they are ready to break the restrictions on the export of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines from the United States to China and upgrade the technology of its semiconductor factories in China.
Some analysts believe that in the context of the United States blocking the Netherlands from exporting high-end lithography machines to China, it is not easy for Hynix to upgrade the chip manufacturing process of its enterprises in China. However, South Korea's "Seoul Economy" recently reported that Hynix plans to upgrade some of its memory production equipment in China to the fourth-generation 10nm process this year. Because the company believes that as the global chip market begins to recover, the expansion of high-end chip production capacity is urgent.
