I guess next year there will be a big surprise for Chinese lithography...maybe, a higher 10nm process is being tested later this year.
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How about you post an article from "reputable sources" to prove that I‘m wrong?
Lol you do know that source hacking is about one of the dumbest ways to “prove” anything right? This is how conspiracy theorists end up believing anything they want, by citing “sources”. Hiding behind sourcing is what lesser minds do to feign greater knowledge.
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Ex-Arm Boss Resigns From SMIC’s Board as US-China Tensions Rise
(Bloomberg) -- Tudor Brown, the former president of Arm Ltd., has resigned from the board of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., stepping away from the Chinese chipmaker that has been hit with US sanctions.
Brown, a celebrated engineer who was part of Arm’s founding, is leaving SMIC after nine years on its board. He disclosed the move on his LinkedIn page.
“Bitter sweet day today. After 9 years I resigned from SMIC board. The international divide has further widened,” he wrote.
Brown, who’s also a director at top Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd., was a key executive at Arm from 1990 till May 2012, according to this LinkedIn profile. That was before SoftBank Group Corp. acquired the British firm in 2016.
Brown and SMIC didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
SMIC is among a raft of Chinese semiconductor manufacturers contending with steadily tightening US export restrictions as Washington tries to contain Beijing’s technological rise. That’s on top of rapidly crumbling global electronics demand, as consumers leave a pandemic-era boom behind.
In response, homegrown firms have attempted to develop alternatives to American silicon. The Shanghai-based contract chipmaker has succeeded in advancing its production technology two generations this year to 7-nanometers, though industry experts caution that may not be based on the same standards employed by far larger rivals like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor: A number of front-end optical measurement equipment shipped from
According to micronet news, recently, Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor's third batch of front-end optical measurement equipment was successfully shipped from the new factory and delivered to major customers in North China again.
Source: Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor
According to official news from Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor, EFILM series optical film thickness measurement equipment and EPROFILE series optical critical dimension measurement (OCD) equipment have been exported to customers this time. Among them, the optical film thickness measurement equipment is suitable for 28nm FEOL and 14nm BEOL node process, equipped with multiple sets of measurement systems, suitable for the thickness, refractive index, composition, reflectivity, Measurement of film stress, etc.; OCD measurement equipment, mainly used in the process of 28nm node and above, to meet the customer's 2D or 3D shallow trench isolation, gate, source and drain regions and other structures such as line width, sidewall angle, height/depth and other key factors Various requirements for online dimension measurement.
It is reported that the equipment released this time has been assembled and debugged in the new R&D headquarters equipment manufacturing base of Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor. In the future, the new equipment manufacturing base will have 150+ equipment installation and adjustment stations. At present, five flexible integrated assembly, software and hardware debugging production lines and an optical subsystem offline flexible testing and adjustment line have been planned.
In addition, not long ago, Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor Optical Critical Dimension (OCD) measurement equipment EPROFILE 300FD passed the key customer's 28nm process verification, successfully entered the mass production line and put it into full use, and was recognized by many customers.
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It is reported that the equipment released this time has been assembled and debugged in the new R&D headquarters equipment manufacturing base of Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor. In the future, the new equipment manufacturing base will have 150+ equipment installation and adjustment stations. At present, five flexible integrated assembly, software and hardware debugging production lines and an optical subsystem offline flexible testing and adjustment line have been planned.
In addition, not long ago, Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor Optical Critical Dimension (OCD) measurement equipment EPROFILE 300FD passed the key customer's 28nm process verification, successfully entered the mass production line and put it into full use, and was recognized by many customers.
KLA turf
Wuxi Naskai officially opened and will be engaged in R&D and manufacturing of key components of semiconductor equipment
Wuxi Naskai Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. was established in November 2021. It is mainly engaged in the R&D and manufacturing of key components of semiconductor equipment. The products include quartz electrodes, quartz rings, silicon electrodes, silicon rings, etc. The company has a team engaged in the research and development of semiconductor 8-inch and 12-inch equipment for nearly 20 years.It is reported that the company has completed the first phase of construction with a total investment of 100 million yuan, and will enter the stage of R&D and mass production. amounted to RMB 500 million.
SMIC released its financial report for the second quarter of 2022. The second quarter revenue reached US$1.9032 billion, a year-on-year increase of 41.6%; the gross profit reached US$750.5 million, an increase of 85.3% year-on-year, and the gross profit margin was 39.4%.
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Insane CAGR from the semi companies. Double or triple digits growth. Probably, the only other industry with such rosy numbers is EV.
Only a few EV companies (BYD comes to mind) are hitting these numbers. Whereas semi companies across the board, from equipment to EDA to foundry are hitting these insane growth rates.
But the diplomat and bloomberg told me that Chinese IC industry is in shambles. Was all that a lie?
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