7nm lithography machine was used to pay off debts, hundreds of employees were laid off, and the 100 billion chip project came to an end!!!
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Since the second half of 2020, the chip supply has been tight; insufficient manufacturing capacity, insufficient packaging and testing capacity, insufficient inventory; car companies, mobile phone manufacturers, game players, and large-scale chip shortages have spread to almost all electronic fields. —— 360 industries are facing chip shortages.
Manufacturing boom caused by technology sanctions
The chip ban against Huawei has exposed a huge weakness in the country's semiconductor industry. In terms of semiconductor industry technology: excessive reliance on foreign technology has made it appear passive under the chip ban.
Therefore, the country has repeatedly emphasized that the semiconductor industry will be an important area of scientific and technological development in the future; at the same time, it has introduced support policies , increased investment in cultivating scientific and technological talents , and introduced more outstanding technologies and talents into the chip manufacturing and semiconductor industries.
Lithography Machine
A chip manufacturing boom has also emerged in China, and many companies have entered the semiconductor industry at one time (currently, there are more than 20,000 companies in China engaged in research and manufacturing in the semiconductor field) ; some of them only want to obtain policy benefits and earn tax subsidies.
According to statistics from relevant departments, since the chip manufacturing boom, a total of six projects with an investment of more than 10 billion yuan have failed and stopped work, with total assets exceeding more than 300 billion yuan. Among these failed cases, the most noteworthy one is Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (HSMC Wuhan Hongxin).
HSMC Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor
HSMC Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor was established in November 2017. As the largest chip manufacturing company in the semiconductor project, it is highly expected by the Chinese people.
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In terms of talent: Hongxin Enterprise itself has a large number of scientific and technological talents, and also invited TSMC's well-known expert Chiang Shangyi to serve as the project's guide;
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In terms of equipment: spending a lot of money to introduce the 1980Di lithography machine from ASML of the Netherlands that supports chip manufacturing processes within 7nm;
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The scale of investment is also unmatched by other companies. The first phase of investment has reached 138 billion yuan.
But such a chip project worth hundreds of billions of dollars was officially declared over with Jiang Shangyi's return to SMIC.
Well-known expert Jiang Shangyi
01 7nm lithography machine debt repayment
Three years after the project was implemented, there was still no substantial progress, and not even a single factory building had been built. The fact that the project was poorly managed was concealed by the huge investment.
Due to funding issues, the 7nm lithography machine, an important piece of equipment for chip production, was mortgaged to the bank without even being unpacked. This made many people feel very sorry. As we all know, lithography machines are very precious equipment. On the one hand, the production cost is high, and on the other hand, it is very difficult to own a lithography machine.
Lithography Machine
02 Warnings and reflections for us
The outcome cannot be changed. We should learn many lessons from it and be alert at all times to avoid going down the same path as Hongxin again.
If you want to develop the chip industry, you need national leadership and policy support (the rise of semiconductors in Japan and South Korea is inseparable from this key link). A single capital group alone is essentially not going to be able to create any waves.
Texas Instruments (TI) wanted to set up a wholly-owned company in Japan to enter the Japanese market. The Japanese government proposed "trading technology for market" . Texas Instruments (TI) was forced to form a joint venture with Sony and disclosed its technology patents within 3 years.
In the 1970s, the Japanese government joined forces with Mitsubishi, Hitachi, NEC, Toshiba, Fujitsu and other technology companies to jointly tackle very large-scale integrated circuits, with a total investment of more than 240 million US dollars . After three years of hard work, they finally obtained 1,210 new patents, which enabled them to compete with American technology.
Summarize
Jade needs to be burned for three days to test, and materials need to wait for seven years to be obtained. If the semiconductor industry is to develop rapidly and healthily
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Enterprises should make good development plans and strategies;
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The state should also strengthen supervision, eliminate bad companies and improve the quality of development of this industry;
It is more necessary to think carefully, proceed slowly, plan gradually, and conquer cities and territories in a planned manner.
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