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On May 7, the U.S. government suddenly announced that it would ban U.S. companies Intel and Qualcomm from continuing to sell chips to Huawei, which was seen as a major upgrade in the U.S. technology restriction policy on Huawei.
In less than 48 hours, China's science and technology department announced that the R&D team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress in photonic chip technology, which may provide a new path option for the development of China's chip industry. This article intends to explore this.
What information does the escalation of the US embargo on Huawei chips contain?
The U.S. government's sudden tightening of chip export restrictions on Huawei shows that the U.S. is comprehensively escalating its technology blockade on Huawei with the goal of "strangle".
This move indicates that the Sino-US science and technology war is changing from the previous precision strikes to the entangled positional warfare.
The U.S. move underscores that its tech restrictions on China are spiraling out of control. On the one hand, the "protection of national security" previously claimed by the United States is difficult to justify, because Intel and Qualcomm's products do not involve high-end chips;
On the other hand, this kind of indiscriminate attack on the "eight punches" will certainly deal a serious blow to the commercial interests and international reputation of US companies. It can be said that the US policy of restricting science and technology in China is being coerced by domestic political struggles and falling into a state of blindness and disorder.
This will undoubtedly deal a devastating blow to the business of US technology companies in China. The capricious practices of the U.S. government have seriously damaged the reliability and safety of U.S. companies' products.
This will accelerate the shift of Chinese companies away from dependence on U.S. suppliers and toward domestic alternatives. In the long run, the US tech giants will inevitably suffer a heavy blow in the Chinese market.
The dilemma and way out faced by China's chip industry
In the face of the "technology supply cut" of the United States, China's chip industry is facing a severe test. At present, China still relies on imports for key chip manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines, and cannot achieve independent control.
In addition, China also has technical shortcomings in the fields of storage and high-performance computing. This has become a major blow to the development of China's chip industry due to the restrictive policies of the United States.
But with crises come opportunities. China has the world's largest set of use cases, which provides an excellent platform for validating a wide range of emerging technologies.
If China can achieve technological breakthroughs and commercial applications in specific fields, it is possible to complete the subversion of traditional technologies. In this regard, new energy vehicles are a typical example.
In order to cope with the technological constraints of the United States, China must integrate domestic resources and concentrate on breaking through key technological bottlenecks. At the same time, it is also necessary to actively expand the path of new technologies and strive to achieve bypass development.
This requires the government, industry, academia, research and application parties to form a joint force, guided by market demand, and accelerate the acquisition of independent and controllable results.
What are the implications of the breakthrough in photonic chip technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
Just 48 hours after the U.S. announced that it would tighten export controls on Huawei, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced encouraging news that its R&D team had made important progress in photonic chip technology, which could become a new way for China to achieve chip independence and control.
The key to this technology is that the use of lithium tantalate, a new "optical silicon" material, to manufacture chips can achieve low-cost mass production.
At the same time, the chip also has the characteristics of high wall-plug conversion efficiency and low optical loss. This means that China is expected to replace imported chips in some areas.
This technological breakthrough once again proves that China is not completely dependent on the chip technology route of the United States. Under the guidance of economic thinking, China is constantly exploring a variety of technological approaches to achieve independent and controllable key core technologies.
This also reflects the solid basic research ability and scientific and technological innovation spirit of Chinese scientific and technological workers.
It is foreseeable that with the efforts of all parties, China's chip industry will surely make more technological breakthroughs and finally overcome the technological blockade and suppression of the United States. This will not only reduce the negative impact of the Sino-US science and technology war, but also effectively promote the high-quality development of China's economy.
The U.S. government's tightening of export controls on Huawei marks the beginning of a white-hot entanglement in the Sino-US technology war. In the face of the grim situation, China must be firm in self-reliance and concentrate resources to break through key technological bottlenecks.
The progress of photonic chip technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has opened a new technological path for China, indicating that China will eventually achieve independence and controllability in key core technologies and overcome various unreasonable sanctions.