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In the impression of the outside world, CPU, GPU, baseband and other chips not only have high patent threshold, but also have a powerful moat built by market ecology. The memory chip is a standard product, the structure is a whole column of memory cells, and it is manufactured without considering the market ecology at all. It seems that as long as you dare to burn money and are willing to burn money, you can't. That's how Japan and South Korea got rich. This is a big mistake. Japan can beat the United States in the memory chip industry, not only because it is willing to burn money, but also because the DRAM chip industry has just started, and American and Japanese companies stand on a starting line; South Korea can come from behind in the memory chip industry. Besides burning money, it is also a good time. On the one hand, there is trade friction between the United States and Japan, and South Korea's memory industry is supported by the United States. At the same time, Japan's asset bubble burst, weakening the competitiveness of Japanese enterprises, just to undertake the transfer of the memory chip industry. When China started, none of these advantages were available, but there were many disadvantages. 20 181October 26th, the inaugural meeting and the first general meeting of China Storage Industry Alliance was held in Wuhan. The directors of Storage Alliance include Changjiang Storage, Hefei Changxin and Fujian Jinhua.
Six days ago, Fujian Jinhua just started trial production and film production. The inaugural meeting of the Memory Industry Alliance was a bit of a celebration, but I didn't expect that four days later, Fujian Jinhua was included in the "Entity List" by the US Department of Commerce, which was equivalent to an infant being stuck around the neck. Domestic memory chip manufacturers are in a weak position in patent layout. 20 10 years ago, the global memory chip industry was shuffled, and European and Japanese companies were basically out. The United States and South Korea have established a strong position, and dozens of memory chip companies have closed down or been acquired, making the patents of memory chips basically concentrated in the hands of Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix. As can be seen from the trend chart of patent applications of the Big Three in the figure below, from 1997 to 20 10, the patent applications of memory chips broke out, and after 20 10, the patent applications of the Big Three dropped sharply, indicating that the market monopoly has been formed. According to the Report on Integrated Circuit Patents issued by China Integrated Circuit Intellectual Property Alliance, only 4% of Japanese companies applied for patents in DRAM field, while 76% of the patents came from Japan, the United States and South Korea. This dozens of times of patent gap makes latecomers have no chance to overtake in corners.
Semiconductor equipment is basically monopolized by Japan and the United States, which has become the curse of domestic memory chip enterprises. The following picture shows the purchasing list of Jinhua storage production equipment circulated on the Internet. It can be seen that Japanese and American companies are unified. In fact, among the top 10 semiconductor equipment companies in the world, there are 5 in the United States, 4 in Japan and 1 in Europe. This means that you can't produce advanced memory chips without production equipment and no more money. In short, at present, it seems that memory chips that are not as complicated as logic chips such as CPU are still a hard bone for our country, and more efforts are needed.