Chinese semiconductor industry

GodRektsNoobs said:

Current SMIC 14nm chips are built with foreign equipment.

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How many % of foreign equipment roughly is used currently to produce 14nm chips by SMIC ? my guess is 30-40% ?

GodRektsNoobs said:

Current SMIC 14nm chips are built with foreign equipment.

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That make the 2022's 14nm shall use all SMEE 28nm DUV Lithography.

antonius123 said:

That make the 2022's 14nm shall use all SMEE 28nm DUV Lithography.

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@antonius123 bro next year a double bonus, mass production of 14nm domestic line and a 7nm using the Shanghai FAB.

antiterror13 said:

Which snapdragon SOC, I thought Huawei is banned by the US, no US companies could sell anything to them ?

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Last year Qualcomm received a license to supply non-5G products to Huawei.

antiterror13 said:

From my memory, last year wasn't mass produced, like trial and the yield was not very high

The most interesting part is whether this 14nm is produced with 100% indigenous or 70% ?

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antonius123 said:

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Just curious, last year SMIC has mass produced 14nm chip; then why China plan to mass produced 14nm again in 2022?

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They already produce 14 nm chips, e.g. Kirin 710A is made with SMIC's 14 nm. The difference is that they plan to launch a fully indigenous supply chain for the 14 nm in 2022, nowadays the 14 nm depends on foreign DUV (ASML, Nikon, Canon) machines. The same with 28 nm - Chinese companies already have big 28 nm capacities, what is launching this year is the localized supply chain for this process - i.e. all the equipment and expendables.

Anyone has a chart/graph showing how much domestic IC capacity will be added by the end of 2021?

Taiwan’s TSMC asking suppliers to reduce prices by 15%​

While TSMC is increasing prices by 20% to its customers, its asking the equipment and materials suppliers to reduce their prices.

huemens said:

Taiwan’s TSMC asking suppliers to reduce prices by 15%​

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While TSMC is increasing prices by 20% to its customers, its asking the equipment and materials suppliers to reduce their prices.

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That the cost of having monopoly ....

TSMC knows that 10 years later they will not exist, or will be totally minor in the game
Those are their last days so they want to take it as much as they can