How China Could Replace all US Technology

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zealotaiur485

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It's difficult for Chinese companies to wean themselves off of US tech overnight.
So in the near term, there will be some hard bumps in the road for the businesses noted in this news article. But in the long term, say 5-10 years, domestic Chinese companies can definitely produce their own tech that's just as good or even better than what US companies are offering.
The govt is already taking the first steps towards spurring the local chip industry:

At an industry conference earlier this year in Shenzhen, Jiang Yijie, an executive of Shanghai-based chipmaker Montage LZ, said: "What Chinese chipmakers lack is not market potential but market confidence."

The Chinese government is trying to set an example. In June last year, the Central Government Procurement Center for the first time included Chinese-made chips in its purchase list. Inspur has begun using homegrown chips for government and military projects. "The government's action to adopt more Chinese chips is a positive demonstration to support homegrown efforts," said the Inspur sales director.

Michael Guo, a sales director at Zhejiang Shijing Sensor Technology, which produces chips for carmakers, also counts on Beijing for help. "If the government encourages the use of made-in-China chips in public procurements, companies will buy more," he said.

But even with much-anticipated support from Chinese leaders, Guo is still cautious about whether Beijing will meet its ambitious 2025 targets. "China's chip industry is on the rise, but it still lags far behind Western peers," he said. "It will probably take us another decade to catch up."
 

AssassinsMace

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Everyone else is trying to manipulate China into bowing down to US demands because then they don't lose money having to makes changes. China going its own way is not a good idea to them but what other choice does China have? Only signing their soul away to the devil. That's why they were afraid of Made in China 2025 when Obama and the EU voiced concerns. China won't be buying from them. Trump is making Made In China 2025 all the more important and prophetic. I'm not surprised that everyone not the US or China are naysayers on China's future without the US. They just don't want China developing its own standards because then they'll have to pay double on license fees so their technology can work on both systems. That's what it's all about. Don't think it's because they're being intellectual and giving an honest assessment. They're already under the US standard so it's best for them to have China stay under the US standard so they can keep making money from China without it costing them more.
 

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I assume you have access to this. Could you post the article? It's behind a paywall. I'm curious to see who exactly said what and from what analysis.

American media tends to have serious translation problems, for example, when Ren said,

"We did not expect the US to attack us with such determination. Nonetheless, our cutting edge and 5G services will be unaffected although some lower end tech might. We foresaw a maximum drop of 40% in the international smartphone business but instead, we saw a reduction that was about 20% and has since then dropped below that. My current report shows no negative effect on any other businesses. We forecast a $30 billion loss in sales over 2 years but it is mostly cancelled by growth and overall a small sum that will not cut into our R&D."

It was translated to,

"We did not expect the US sanctions to be so damaging. We have experienced a 40% drop in sales. We're losing $30 billion a year!"
 
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antiterror13

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I assume you have access to this. Could you post the article? It's behind a paywall. I'm curious to see who exactly said what and from what analysis. Thanks

open with VPN or other browser (i.e firefox)

btw, here is the text

China chip designers say Beijing goals impossible without US tech
Semiconductor development will 'hit a wall,' AI developer warns
COCO LIU, CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers
JUNE 24, 2019 16:00 JST
Beijing wants 70% of all chips used by Chinese industry to be produced domestically by 2025.
HONG KONG/TAIPEI -- Chinese chip designers, whose business has flourished under Beijing's desire for a homegrown semiconductor industry, are warning it will be impossible to meet national targets for a viable, independent sector without access to U.S. technology.
"There are alternatives in China, but the gap in technology is too big," said an executive from one of China's leading artificial intelligence chipmakers, which relies on U.S. technology for chip design. "If we lose access to U.S. software or can no longer receive updates, our chip development will run into a dead end."
A senior executive from Shanghai-based NextVPU, an AI chipmaker founded by former Advanced Micro Devices engineers, echoed his concerns. "Without updates from American software providers, China's push to develop its own chips will hit a wall," he told the Nikkei Asian Review.
The executives, like others quoted in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fears of upsetting Beijing, which has set a target for 70% of all chips used by Chinese industry in 2025 to be domestically produced.
But their views were backed up by industry experts and suppliers.
"We would use whatever chip equipment and materials we have locally if their performances were good enough," said a manager from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., China's top contract chipmaker. "But we still need [American] equipment, materials, IPs and chip design software. It's not likely for any of the chipmakers in the world... to get rid of American vendors soon."
Cici Zhang, an analyst with Taipei-based research firm TrendForce, was similarly downbeat. "The overall self-sufficiency rate in China's chip design sector was only 15% in 2018," Zhang said. "We don't expect China's push to quickly replace a lot of global semiconductor players will happen anytime soon as the world's supply chain is so interconnected."
The government has been locked in a bitter battle with Washington over the future of its tech sector after the U.S. moved to restrict the transfer of American technology. In May it barred sales of goods containing 25% American technology to Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies. This weekend Washington broadened its assault on the country's tech industry, adding five more Chinese entities -- including supercomputer manufacturer Sugon and two Chinese joint ventures with American semiconductor company AMD -- to its export blacklist.
The moves come as the government pushes Chinese industry to buy homegrown semiconductors in order to meet its goal of sourcing 40% of all supply domestically by 2020 and 70% by 2025. However, industry executives say this goal is out of reach, while many Chinese companies are also proving reluctant to switch to locally sourced semiconductors.
"To be honest, Chinese chips are still less efficient than Intel's," said a senior sales director from Inspur, the world's third-largest server maker and the No. 1 in China. Companies handling the most sensitive processes, such as financial transactions, are also reluctant to trust China's nascent chip industry.
"Our clients are banks, and having a stable system is their top priority," said an executive from Siecom, a Shenzhen-based software developer specializing in producing telecommunication terminals for Chinese banks. "Even if Huawei's chips function as well as Qualcomm chips, we feel Qualcomm is a safer bet because of its decades-long experience in chip making."
Chip production in China -- including by foreign companies -- accounted for just 15% of the country's $155 billion market last year, according to IC Insights. The market research group is forecasting in-country production of just 20.5% by 2023.
China's 2025 ambitions have already been hampered by the U.S. crackdown.
AMD has limited knowledge sharing with its Chinese joint venture partner, Tianjin Haiguang, in light of the moves and said it was "reviewing the specifics of the order to determine the next steps related to our joint ventures ... in China."
Intel, AMD's bigger rival, also ended its partnership with Beijing-backed mobile chipmaker Unisoc Communications earlier this year, Nikkei Asian Review reported. Previously, the two companies had planned to cooperate in 5G modem development.
"The push for [China's] self-reliance is not delivering results as quickly as expected and has really been hit by the U.S. clampdown," said Arisa Liu, a veteran chip analyst at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.
The chilled tech partnership has also weighed on Chinese chip designers' growing momentum, analysts say. Revenue from the sector is expected to grow 17.9% this year to roughly 296.5 billion yuan ($42.9 billion), the first time the rate has fallen below 20% since 2014, when Beijing introduced a multibillion-dollar fund to ramp up its semiconductor prowess, according to TrendForce.
Moreover, for high-end chips that are used for data centers and other sophisticated applications, Chinese companies still favor imported chips over domestic products. Not only do Chinese chips lag in performance but they cost significantly more -- sometimes as much as 50% more due to their limited production scale, said the executive of the leading AI chipmaker. This hesitation to use domestic chips made it difficult for Chinese developers to improve their technology.
"Small companies cannot absorb those [cost] differences," the executive said. "But deployment is vital for technology improvements. We can only know how our chip performs if someone is using it."
At an industry conference earlier this year in Shenzhen, Jiang Yijie, an executive of Shanghai-based chipmaker Montage LZ, said: "What Chinese chipmakers lack is not market potential but market confidence."
The Chinese government is trying to set an example. In June last year, the Central Government Procurement Center for the first time included Chinese-made chips in its purchase list. Inspur has begun using homegrown chips for government and military projects. "The government's action to adopt more Chinese chips is a positive demonstration to support homegrown efforts," said the Inspur sales director.
Michael Guo, a sales director at Zhejiang Shijing Sensor Technology, which produces chips for carmakers, also counts on Beijing for help. "If the government encourages the use of made-in-China chips in public procurements, companies will buy more," he said.
But even with much-anticipated support from Chinese leaders, Guo is still cautious about whether Beijing will meet its ambitious 2025 targets. "China's chip industry is on the rise, but it still lags far behind Western peers," he said. "It will probably take us another decade to catch up."
 

AndrewS

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Huawei is now asking for royalties for its patents from Verizon. It looks like Ericsson and Nokia will need to redesign their 5G products for just the US market. If it takes too much costs for reinvestment, they just night give up on the US market. There may not be any major vendors selling in the US market.

It still makes sense for Nokia and Ericsson to redesign for the US, but not spend too much as it is a small 5G market.

But the global market for the frequencies used by China and Europe and the rest of the world is many times bigger.

And if China specifies non US hardware and software for 5G equipment in China, that will become the global standard. And it will only be a few years of development before US Tech is replaced with something better
 

tidalwave

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Trump bitch slapped Sugon, Haiguang inspurs for looking down at domestic processors like loongson, shenwei for supercomputers. They rather work with Intel and AMD processors. Now Trump banned them. good!

For long long time, the biggest problem no one wants to use domestic chip, thank God for uncle trump.!

No excuses, back against the wall, Just do it.

Back in the days, Soviet competed straight up against US with only vaccum tube tech and now China got alot more to work with, so no excuses from them.
 
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tower9

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I assume you have access to this. Could you post the article? It's behind a paywall. I'm curious to see who exactly said what and from what analysis.

American media tends to have serious translation problems, for example, when Ren said,

"We did not expect the US to attack us with such determination. Nonetheless, our cutting edge and 5G services will be unaffected although some lower end tech might. We foresaw a maximum drop of 40% in the international smartphone business but instead, we saw a reduction that was about 20% and has since then dropped below that. My current report shows no negative effect on any other businesses. We forecast a $30 billion loss in sales over 2 years but it is mostly cancelled by growth and overall a small sum that will not cut into our R&D."

It was translated to,

"We did not expect the US sanctions to be so damaging. We have experienced a 40% drop in sales. We're losing $30 billion a year!"



HONG KONG/TAIPEI -- Chinese chip designers, whose business has flourished under Beijing's desire for a homegrown semiconductor industry, are warning it will be impossible to meet national targets for a viable, independent sector without access to U.S. technology.

"There are alternatives in China, but the gap in technology is too big," said an executive from one of China's leading artificial intelligence chipmakers, which relies on U.S. technology for chip design. "If we lose access to U.S. software or can no longer receive updates, our chip development will run into a dead end."

A senior executive from Shanghai-based NextVPU, an AI chipmaker founded by former Advanced Micro Devices engineers, echoed his concerns. "Without updates from American software providers, China's push to develop its own chips will hit a wall," he told the Nikkei Asian Review.

The executives, like others quoted in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fears of upsetting Beijing, which has set a target for 70% of all chips used by Chinese industry in 2025 to be domestically produced.

But their views were backed up by industry experts and suppliers.

"We would use whatever chip equipment and materials we have locally if their performances were good enough," said a manager from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., China's top contract chipmaker. "But we still need [American] equipment, materials, IPs and chip design software. It's not likely for any of the chipmakers in the world... to get rid of American vendors soon."

Cici Zhang, an analyst with Taipei-based research firm TrendForce, was similarly downbeat. "The overall self-sufficiency rate in China's chip design sector was only 15% in 2018," Zhang said. "We don't expect China's push to quickly replace a lot of global semiconductor players will happen anytime soon as the world's supply chain is so interconnected."

The government has been locked in a bitter battle with Washington over the future of its tech sector after the U.S. moved to restrict the transfer of American technology. In May it barred sales of goods containing 25% American technology to Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies. This weekend Washington broadened its assault on the country's tech industry, adding five more Chinese entities -- including supercomputer manufacturer Sugon and two Chinese joint ventures with American semiconductor company AMD -- to its export blacklist.

The moves come as the government pushes Chinese industry to buy homegrown semiconductors in order to meet its goal of sourcing 40% of all supply domestically by 2020 and 70% by 2025. However, industry executives say this goal is out of reach, while many Chinese companies are also proving reluctant to switch to locally sourced semiconductors.

"To be honest, Chinese chips are still less efficient than Intel's," said a senior sales director from Inspur, the world's third-largest server maker and the No. 1 in China. Companies handling the most sensitive processes, such as financial transactions, are also reluctant to trust China's nascent chip industry.

"Our clients are banks, and having a stable system is their top priority," said an executive from Siecom, a Shenzhen-based software developer specializing in producing telecommunication terminals for Chinese banks. "Even if Huawei's chips function as well as Qualcomm chips, we feel Qualcomm is a safer bet because of its decades-long experience in chip making."

Chip production in China -- including by foreign companies -- accounted for just 15% of the country's $155 billion market last year, according to IC Insights. The market research group is forecasting in-country production of just 20.5% by 2023.

China's 2025 ambitions have already been hampered by the U.S. crackdown.

AMD has limited knowledge sharing with its Chinese joint venture partner, Tianjin Haiguang, in light of the moves and said it was "reviewing the specifics of the order to determine the next steps related to our joint ventures ... in China."

Intel, AMD's bigger rival, also ended its partnership with Beijing-backed mobile chipmaker Unisoc Communications earlier this year, Nikkei Asian Review reported. Previously, the two companies had planned to cooperate in 5G modem development.

"The push for [China's] self-reliance is not delivering results as quickly as expected and has really been hit by the U.S. clampdown," said Arisa Liu, a veteran chip analyst at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.

The chilled tech partnership has also weighed on Chinese chip designers' growing momentum, analysts say. Revenue from the sector is expected to grow 17.9% this year to roughly 296.5 billion yuan ($42.9 billion), the first time the rate has fallen below 20% since 2014, when Beijing introduced a multibillion-dollar fund to ramp up its semiconductor prowess, according to TrendForce.

Moreover, for high-end chips that are used for data centers and other sophisticated applications, Chinese companies still favor imported chips over domestic products. Not only do Chinese chips lag in performance but they cost significantly more -- sometimes as much as 50% more due to their limited production scale, said the executive of the leading AI chipmaker. This hesitation to use domestic chips made it difficult for Chinese developers to improve their technology.

"Small companies cannot absorb those [cost] differences," the executive said. "But deployment is vital for technology improvements. We can only know how our chip performs if someone is using it."

At an industry conference earlier this year in Shenzhen, Jiang Yijie, an executive of Shanghai-based chipmaker Montage LZ, said: "What Chinese chipmakers lack is not market potential but market confidence."

The Chinese government is trying to set an example. In June last year, the Central Government Procurement Center for the first time included Chinese-made chips in its purchase list. Inspur has begun using homegrown chips for government and military projects. "The government's action to adopt more Chinese chips is a positive demonstration to support homegrown efforts," said the Inspur sales director.

Michael Guo, a sales director at Zhejiang Shijing Sensor Technology, which produces chips for carmakers, also counts on Beijing for help. "If the government encourages the use of made-in-China chips in public procurements, companies will buy more," he said.

But even with much-anticipated support from Chinese leaders, Guo is still cautious about whether Beijing will meet its ambitious 2025 targets. "China's chip industry is on the rise, but it still lags far behind Western peers," he said. "It will probably take us another decade to catch up."
 

Hendrik_2000

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You seem to miss the most important paragraph of the article Here I highlight it
In the short run it will hurt China semiconductor industry but in the long run it will benefit because now they don't have hesitation of using domestic equivalent
A lot of people lost confidence because it is not easy todo But take a page from weapon and other defense industry China was embargoed after TAM but now has thriving defense industry

Moreover, for high-end chips that are used for data centers and other sophisticated applications, Chinese companies still favor imported chips over domestic products. Not only do Chinese chips lag in performance but they cost significantly more -- sometimes as much as 50% more due to their limited production scale, said the executive of the leading AI chipmaker. This hesitation to use domestic chips made it difficult for Chinese developers to improve their technology.

"Small companies cannot absorb those [cost] differences," the executive said. "But deployment is vital for technology improvements. We can only know how our chip performs if someone is using it."

At an industry conference earlier this year in Shenzhen, Jiang Yijie, an executive of Shanghai-based chipmaker Montage LZ, said: "What Chinese chipmakers lack is not market potential but market confidence."
 
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