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In recent years, the United States and the West have taken various means to encircle and block China's chip development, but it still can't stop the unremitting struggle of mainland scientific researchers.
But just recently, foreign media took advantage of ASML's lithography machine sales to sing about China's chip industry, what is going on?
The United States and the West have suppressed Chinese chips
In recent years, the contradictions between China and the United States in the international community have become increasingly intense, and China's rise has seriously threatened the global hegemony of the United States.
There is a good saying: "The future is the era of chips", China's chip industry is congenitally lagging behind Western countries, so the mainland has invested huge financial and material resources in the field of chips in recent years, trying to achieve a breakthrough in the field of chips, and keep up with the pace of the world's top chip powers as soon as possible.
The United States will naturally not sit idly by and watch the continuous progress of its competitors, so it has united with a number of allies to suppress the mainland's chip industry, not only monopolizing technology, but also targeting the mainland in every possible way in trade.
The United States first joined forces with its allies to prohibit all Western companies from providing chips related to the chip industry to China, and then issued relevant laws and regulations to restrict chip exports to China.
At the same time, the United States has also done everything possible to target Huawei and other Chinese companies, trying to prevent the development of China's chip technology with the despicable method of destroying China's chip industry.
The lithography machine is one of the most important tools for the production of chips, and the manufacturing of the lithography machine requires a very high degree of technical precision, so only a few countries in the world have the ability to manufacture lithography machines.
It is precisely because of the difficulty of the production of lithography machines that the United States and the West have deliberately targeted China in terms of lithography machines, and issued laws and regulations to major Western companies to restrict the export of lithography machines to China, in an attempt to use lithography machines to lock the development of China's chip industry.
Naturally, China will not be willing to be restrained, but has taken out the fighting spirit of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat, invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop domestic lithography machines, and finally made a major breakthrough.
As early as the end of the eighties of the last century, the Chinese Academy of Sciences put forward the idea of independent research and development of lithography machines, at that time, the domestic semiconductor industry has not even started, into the 21st century, the development of domestic lithography machines began to really get on the right track.
Initially, domestic lithography machines can only produce some low-end chips, which will not have the slightest impact on the chip market in the West, but the hard work of scientific researchers day after day has finally paid off, and today's domestic lithography machines have even been able to produce 5-nanometer chips.
Now the most representative of the technical level of the continental lithography machine should be located in Shanghai Microelectronics Co., Ltd., the company can now mass produce a resolution of 90nm lithography machine, is currently working on a resolution of up to 28nm lithography machine, once a breakthrough, it will be a milestone leap in the mainland chip industry.
Although the current lithography machine technology in the mainland is still far from the world's top level, it has made a great breakthrough compared with the past, and it is only a matter of time before it catches up with the world's top level in terms of the current research progress.
But even so, we still can't be complacent, we must know that the mainland is not a real chip power, external enemies are always staring at us, once we show flaws, they will attack it en masse.
A set of data to provoke thoughts
ASML is a semiconductor company based in the Netherlands, which can be said to have mastered the world's top lithography machine production technology, and Chinese chip industry companies often import lithography machines from this company.
During the Sino-US trade war a few years ago, ASML also sided with the United States and reduced the number of lithography machines exported to China, which indirectly led to great losses for the mainland chip industry.
Recently, there has been a slight easing in relations between China and the United States, so the company has eased its export ban to the mainland. However, everyone knows that the so-called détente in relations is only temporary, and the United States will never give up its containment and containment of China.
Just recently, ASML presented a piece of data, and they immediately took this set of data to make an article, and they were angry with China's chip industry.
So what exactly is this data about? It turns out that ASML is showing their sales data for lithography machines for the past year.
According to the data, in the whole year of 2023, ASML sold a total of 450 lithography machines, with sales of 215.3 billion yuan.
The sales seem to be really large, but how did this get to the domestic lithography machine?
It turned out that nearly 300 of the 450 lithography machines sold by ASML were exported to China, and the export objects were to China's major chip production companies.
Therefore, the United States and the West have seized on this point to make a fuss, claiming that China's lithography machine technology is too backward to meet China's chip production needs.
It is also easy to refute this nonsense, although the current lithography machine technology in the mainland has progressed, but after all, the mainland is not an old chip power, and the breakthrough in the production of lithography machine is also in recent years, it will take a while to transform all the technology into productivity, and it is reasonable that the current domestic lithography machine can not meet all the chip production needs.
Moreover, the Chinese population is large, the chip market is also extremely large, so the number of lithography machines required to produce chips is also very large, and it is normal for domestic lithography machine manufacturers to be difficult to supply all lithography machines.
These nearly 300 lithography machines, not all of which are used to produce chips, some of which are highly technical lithography machines, which the mainland has spent a lot of money to buy, in order to study them and accumulate technical experience for domestic lithography machines.
The United States and ASML are singing and harmonizing, nothing more than trying to laugh at our chip industry, for these gossips, we don't have to pay attention to it, we just need to unswervingly develop ourselves.
However, from this incident, we can still get a glimpse of the current mainland chip industry There is a lot of room for improvement.
First of all, in terms of technology, most of the lithography machines imported from the mainland to ASML in the past year are still used to produce low-end chips, which shows that there are still many areas for improvement in the technology of domestic lithography machines.
As mentioned before, the mainland has been able to mass-produce 90nm resolution lithography machines, but now it seems that this resolution is still not enough, and it can no longer keep up with the international pace, so it is necessary to step up the development of lithography machines with better resolution.
In the past year, two-thirds of the lithography machines exported by ASML were exported to China, which is enough to show that China's current lithography machine production is seriously insufficient.
epilogue
At present, the chip industry of the motherland is still facing layers of siege from Western countries, and there is still a long way to go for domestic chips to completely break through the blockade.
Among them, the research and development of lithography machine plays a vital role, although in recent years domestic lithography machine has made great progress in technology, but compared with the world-class level there is still a huge gap, so efforts in this area are still needed.
I believe that as long as we persevere in our struggle, domestic lithography machines will eventually break all the blockades of the West in the future.
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