Text: Elephant Microvision
Edited by Elephant Microvision
Everyone knows the importance of "chips", and our mobile phones, computers, phone watches, all contain this little thing.
"Chips" are their brains, and if there are no chips, then they are scrap metal.
However, in recent years, various countries have been cracking down on China's development, starting with the United States, which has a monopoly on all manufacturing of chips in China.
Are they trying to "abolish" China?
What's even more infuriating is that the top five of the American chip manufacturing masters are all Chinese, which makes people can't help but sigh: Who did the teacher teach you the patriotic spirit?
And in the face of everyone's "attack," how should China face it? Let's take a look
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It was erected on the stove
On the battlefield of science and technology, China is facing an unprecedented "chip encirclement and suppression", and this time the "mastermind" is actually Japan.
Japan, which seems to have a long-standing feud, has followed the steps of the United States and implemented a policy of "chip supply cut-off" to China. This begs the question, what the hell is Japan doing?
Things have to start with the Netherlands, a small country that turned out to be the "hegemon" in global chip production. State-of-the-art lithography machines are indispensable tools for chip manufacturing from ASML, which is a leading company in the Netherlands.
Dissatisfied with China's achievements in the field of semiconductors, Japan has followed the example of the United States and began to suppress China. First of all, the Netherlands announced that it would stop exporting DUV lithography machines to China, which plunged China's chip industry into a huge crisis.
Seeing the rise of China's semiconductor industry, the United States feels deeply threatened. As a result, under the leadership of the United States, Japan announced that it would stop exporting 23 kinds of chips to China, which is simply worse.
Japan, which has experienced the "Toshiba incident" and was bullied to death by the United States, has intensified its efforts to follow the United States' policy of cutting off chip supply to China.
At this time, what happened to Japan? Could it be that the hatred of the "Toshiba incident" has been completely forgotten and quickly transformed into a "loyal thug"?
For the sake of a little short-term interest in the moment, Japan actually chose to betray the hatred of the past and launched a crazy "blow" to China's semiconductor industry. This kind of betrayal is simply embarrassing.
For China, this is undoubtedly a worse blow. These 23 kinds of chips are not only related to all aspects of our daily life, but also an indispensable part of the modern industrial chain.
Moreover, the trade between China and Japan is quite close, and once Japan implements a chip supply cut to China, the entire industrial chain will be thrown into chaos.
If the United States, Japan, the Netherlands and other countries adopt a "chip supply" policy against China, it will be a huge disaster for China's chip industry.
This is not only a technical shock, but also a double blow of geopolitics and international trade.
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Chip impact
Chips are the core of all kinds of electronic products, from computers and mobile phones to airplanes and cars. Once the chip supply is cut off, the production and sales of all walks of life will be affected, from slight fluctuations in the specific industry market to a serious collapse of the entire industrial chain, and the consequences are unpredictable.
However, despite the stagnation of the market in the short term, the chip crisis is also driving the innovation and determination of Chinese researchers. As the People's Daily said, "Only with your own can you really rest assured." "Perhaps this is the time for China's tech community to find a more sustainable path.
For a long time, the global chip industry has been monopolized by the United States, but China's rise in recent years has shaken this pattern. With Huawei's innovation in the field of 5G, China's chip technology has gradually emerged in the international community, and even reached friendly cooperation with enterprises in other countries.
How could the United States tolerate its own territory being snatched away, especially China, which was once looked down upon. In order to maintain its hegemony, the United States began to suppress China by any means and imposed a ban on chip giants.
In this crisis of "chip supply cuts", China has long had its own plan. The goal for 2025 is to achieve 70% chip self-sufficiency. This goal was established long before the ban was imposed by the United States, showing China's ambitions for the future of chips.
Bill Gates once said that "cutting off the supply of chips" will accelerate the speed of China's independent research and development, and the facts have proved that his prediction is correct.
In the crisis of "chip supply cut", the People's Daily stood up and commented, bluntly saying that we can no longer have any illusions about other countries.
This crisis has made people worry about the future of the chip industry, but perhaps in the midst of the crisis, there are also hidden opportunities for China's independent innovation.
With the sharp decline in imports of chips from other countries, our country's scientific and technological research and development has ushered in unprecedented opportunities, and enterprises have risen rapidly, filling the market share that was originally occupied by other countries.
Although the mainland's chip imports decreased by 18 billion chips in January and February 2023, this may be an opportunity for China's science and technology to save itself.
Although Huawei has experienced four blows, it has made huge breakthroughs in various chip fields, pushing its total production capacity to the third place in the world. This shows that China has found an effective way to cope with external pressure in the field of chips.
However, we cannot be complacent, as the chip crisis reflects a more complex problem.
A significant number of the top chip experts in the United States are Chinese scientists. Why is this happening, and is there a deeper reason behind this?
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What about conscience?
In the field of chips in the United States, the Chinese actually occupy the top five top chip research experts! This news surprised the Chinese people, and they discussed why these scientific research talents would go to other countries. Is it because of the treatment, or is there something else?
Looking back on our campus days, those gates painted with "ten years of tree cultivation, one hundred years of education", we understand that the future development of the country is inseparable from the cultivation of top scientific and technological talents.
However, despite our excellent job of talent pool, the problem of brain drain remains prominent.
Perhaps one of the reasons for this lies in educational deficiencies. Many students study abroad and chase higher treatment in foreign countries. Although it is only a minority, it may have something to do with the fact that parents express their expectations for their children to study abroad in their daily communication.
Patriotic education obviously cannot be neglected. At present, our country has a large amount of scientific research talent draining, which has a lot to do with the contempt for patriotic education. Patriotic education activities can help children feel the development process of the country and understand the efforts made for the development of the country.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, scientific research talents have made great efforts for national construction, starting from scratch to creating one scientific research achievement after another. Nowadays, there are more and more practical activities of patriotic education in schools, arousing children's pride in the development of the country.
"Technology knows no borders" is true, but for the country to survive, we must do everything we can to retain talent and increase the pool of scientific research talent.
Increase innovation subsidies, support scientific and technological innovation, and create soil for cultivating talents. Only then will we be able to build a strong talent pool and stop panicking about the list of chip experts from other countries.
At the same time, we also need to seriously consider the deep-seated reasons for the loss of scientific research talent. Is it a problem of treatment, or is it a deficiency in other systems?
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transcend
In this era of science and technology, which is full of unknowns and challenges, China is soaring into the sky and is unstoppable! The awakening of consciousness is like a spring breeze, blowing up the sleeping dragon, and the economic take-off is like a rushing frenzy, pushing us to the pinnacle of becoming a scientific and technological power.
The fear of hands and feet has long become a thing of the past, and Chinese enterprises have recovered from the confusion and seen the preciousness of talents. In order to cultivate more scientific and technological elites, colleges and universities are no longer satisfied with tradition, but have gathered all their strength, sounded the rallying call, and called on talents in various fields to return to the motherland.
Ren Zhengfei is like a fighting general, shouting for "the chickens raised by himself to return to their nests to lay eggs", calling on those engineers and scientists who have worked hard in other countries to return to the motherland to serve. We can no longer "make wedding dresses" for other countries, we must put on shining clothes and go to the world stage.
To retain talents, we must first improve their welfare and labor remuneration. This is not simply a numbers game, but a desire to emulate the actions of its old adversary, the United States, and make it the world's leading choice in terms of investment in research and welfare rewards. We want to fight a wonderful battle in this battle of science and technology!
While improving welfare benefits, it is also necessary to cultivate the professional ability of talents in various fields. High-achieving students already have enough objective conditions, and now they need to focus more on improving their abilities. The government invests more resources to ensure that colleges and universities become the cradle of talent and nurture more tech superstars.
The government's large-scale financial support for the injection of key universities has made talents no longer worry about employment after graduation. At this critical juncture, we need to give key talents a better learning atmosphere and research environment. Only in this way can we gallop across the battlefield of science and technology and soar into the sky.
The capacity of colleges and universities to run schools and conduct scientific research needs to be strengthened. Today, universities are no longer isolated ivory towers, but have set up a wide range of research platforms for talented people to talk about the future of science and technology. Such an environment is a hotbed for innovation and promotes the take-off of science and technology.
In the footage of history, we see the plot of a scientist studying abroad and studying science and technology, but was detained by someone with a heart. But now we have a stronger ability of independent innovation, with a more high-spirited fighting spirit, we are no longer afraid, no longer stagnant, we must contribute all our strength to the cause of science and technology of the motherland!
As Chinese citizens, we shoulder the responsibility and obligation to forge ahead. In this tide of science and technology, we should actively participate in the process of promoting the progress of the country and strive for the prosperity of the motherland like brave warriors in the torrent.
The future journey is full of unknowns, but we are full of passion and determined to create China's glory on the stage of science and technology. Let us work together to strive at the forefront of science and technology and bring more glory to the motherland! In this burning era, we will be able to write our own legend!