Even if you started a few years ago, you won’t get a working fab producing anything within 5 years and that is considering if it’s a 5 or 7nm chip. If you want anything as advanced as tsmc 2nm chips, you’re well within 10-15+ years.
I live in Taiwan and have friends who work at TSMC. They are NOT kidding around when it comes to security. No personal cellphones. No smart devices. My buddy couldn’t get approved for a basic pedometer.
Protectionists complain about Chinese market dominance, yet Chinese companies are the only ones entering the DRAM market in response to the dramatic increase in demand.
It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that’ll be fast.
China speed will kick in and it will be next year they will own the market.
Not likely. It doesn’t matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.
I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.
There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.
Huawei would just provide the support and resources needed to scale up a new large factory.
No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.
I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.
True.
There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.
Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?
No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.
Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:
https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/
They are making it from scratch. There are lots of sources but this is the first one I found. I assume they package it as well.
Foxcom assembles sub models into complete products. Still higher than slave labor level skills, but not as high as chip fabrication I admit. You need a skill base to assemble phones at a high level.
China speed proves real every time though
Cxmt is already one of their most valuable companies in the stock market
My guess is this is why Huawei wants in on the action
And they should rightly ban sales to the US. Check mate orange man.
