Huawei has made great achievements in other software application systems, especially in the field of 5G communication. The technology patents obtained are at the leading level in the world, and Huawei is still a proud enterprise.
It is precisely because Huawei has achieved a leading position in many aspects that some western countries are afraid and try their best to suppress Huawei and compress its international living space.
In particular, western countries, represented by the United States, prohibit Huawei from providing chips. Since the ban on 15 came into effect in September, people have been worried about Huawei's survival.
Huawei can't produce chips, but is good at designing chips. Without chips, Huawei will be forced to stop in many aspects, such as the manufacture of Huawei's high-end mobile phones and 5G equipment. Huawei has no plan B to choose from, because the high-end chip production technology is all in the hands of western countries.
But since the founding of the People's Republic of China, as long as the technology of western countries is desperately stuck, we can produce it in a short time. The most typical example is atomic bomb. I don't believe that the manufacture of chips can beat us.
Sure enough, Huawei is now importing process engineers from mask aligner on a large scale, and Huawei has already sent a signal to develop its own lithography technology and lay out chip production! Ren personally visited Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University and other universities, hoping to get technical and talent support from these schools in the chip industry.
However, the manufacturing of chips is very difficult, and the industrial chain is also divided into the middle and lower reaches. The upstream is semiconductor raw materials and production equipment. The midstream is the core link, including the design, manufacture and packaging test of integrated circuits and optoelectronic devices, and the downstream is the market application, including mobile phones, PCs and automobiles.
The most difficult thing for Huawei is the upstream, that is, the raw materials and production equipment for manufacturing chips, and the production equipment such as mask aligner and photoresist is the most difficult.
The top manufacturer in mask aligner is ASML of the Netherlands, and ASML occupies a global monopoly position in the field of EUV mask aligner (EUV mask aligner needs to produce chips below 10nm node).
Mask aligner with 5nm process represents the most advanced level at present, and only ASML can make it. Since many technologies of this company adopt American technology, and American technology is also on the banned list, it is basically impossible for Huawei to purchase.
It is impossible for other enterprises to purchase. In 20 18, SMIC ordered an EUV mask aligner from ASML, but under the pressure of the United States, this mask aligner was never delivered.
Other raw materials, such as photoresist, are also in the hands of other western developed countries, and basically contain American technology, which is also within the scope of the ban.
Guanghua is definitely not a company if we want to break through the chip problem. Huawei needs domestic scientific research institutions, especially? National team? Come and help.
On September 16, the principal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said at the press conference of the State Council Office that it is necessary to put the United States? Stuck in the neck? The list has become a list of scientific research tasks for layout, and the whole hospital has concentrated on tackling key problems in major areas that the country is most concerned about. At the press conference, the chip and mask aligner were specifically mentioned.
Have a drink. National team? I think we should be able to see the results in a short time by using the national scientific research strength to develop chips and mask aligner, and the chips stuck around Huawei's neck will be solved.