But it still lags far behind the foreign level. After all, foreign mask aligner can make chips within 10 nanometer, but this year China is far from it. China is also trying to catch up with this, but it will not be realized for the time being in the short term. After all, China started in mask aligner much later than abroad. Moreover, many technologies have been monopolized by foreign countries, so China can only design independently, expecting to overtake the curve one day.
China's chip level is difficult to improve, which is related to talents. China's chip level is limited to now, and this standard is related to talents. China cannot train talents in related fields. After all, China is inferior to the West in this field. Especially in terms of talents, it can't be compared with the west at all. This has also led to the fact that we don't have excellent engineers, so we can only hire engineers from abroad with high salaries. Engineers hired from abroad with high salaries are very strict with technology, and generally will not disclose technology to our engineers, which also leads to the current embarrassing level of our chips.
The second point is that there is not enough money. The lack of funds mentioned here is not the lack of investment, but the lack of profits in the chip industry in mask aligner. Because the chips in the domestic market are all made abroad, there is no room for domestic chips to compete in our market. This has also led to the reluctance of many technology companies to develop chips, which is one of the reasons why China's chips lag behind western countries.
The third point is that there is no patent for independent design. At present, international chip design patents have been monopolized by foreign mask aligner companies, and few patents can be applied for in China. Basically, all the patents for chip design have been applied, and the remaining patented technologies are of little use for chip upgrade. So in the final analysis, the above three points are the fundamental reasons why China's chips lag behind western countries.