With the release of a domestically produced 5G mobile phone, Made in China has also formed its own complete system in the chip industry chain, becoming the only country in the world with all industrial categories. This is very exciting news.
China became the world's largest manufacturing country as early as 2010. However, at that time, most of the chips needed for manufacturing in China needed to be purchased from overseas. China has thus become the world's largest chip purchasing country. The chips purchased by China accounted for up to 10% of the global chip market. Nearly 70%, the amount of chips purchased annually exceeds that of oil, rising from more than 200 billion US dollars to nearly 400 billion US dollars.
However, Chinese manufacturing only earns meager profits, while the US chip industry earns huge profits. Taking PC, mobile phone and other industries as an example, US chip companies occupy the upper reaches, so the net profit margin generally exceeds 20%, while domestically produced The net profit margin of PC and mobile phone companies is only single digits, and the PC industry is as low as 2%.
This was originally a win-win situation. China developed its manufacturing industry and American chips gained huge profits. However, since 2019, the United States has frequently taken action against Chinese chips in an attempt to prevent China from developing advanced chips. This has inspired China to develop chips. Determination.
In recent years, China has invested heavily in the chip industry. Even under tremendous pressure, China has invested more than 170 billion yuan in building four chip factories to further enhance China's chip production capacity in an effort to meet China's manufacturing demand for chips. As a result, the United States Attempts to prevent China from developing advanced chip industry by restricting the supply of chip equipment and chip materials.
Chip manufacturing is actually a very long industrial chain. Lithography machines are monopolized by ASML in the Netherlands. Japan and the United States have advantages in chip materials. The United States has roped in the Netherlands and Japan in an attempt to restrict China's chip manufacturing process. Above 40 nanometers.
China has actually been completing the chip industry chain before. With the joint efforts of China Chip, China has previously reached 14 nanometers in many chip manufacturing links, among which the etching machine has reached 5 nanometers. The etching machine has also become a Chinese chip The fastest-growing link in the manufacturing industry chain.
The main equipment that prevents China from developing advanced chips is the photolithography machine. In fact, the photolithography machine itself is a long industrial chain. ASML in the Netherlands manufactures the photolithography machine, but ASML needs to purchase accessories from 5,000 companies in dozens of countries around the world. , ASML itself can only manufacture about 10% of the photolithography machine accessories, which shows how difficult the photolithography machine is.
However, Chinese companies and institutions have made concerted efforts. In recent years, many research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Harbin Institute of Technology have announced the successful development of key technologies for lithography machines. There has also been news about domestic immersion lithography machines. Until recently, a domestic mobile phone company released a After dismantling a domestically produced 5G mobile phone, foreign media confirmed that the chip used in this mobile phone is China’s 7-nanometer process, which means that China’s chip industry chain has finally been completed.
As the chip industry chain makes up for its biggest shortcomings, the localization of chips is no longer a problem. This means that China is the only country in the world that has localized both chips and industrial manufacturing, forming the most complete industrial category system. It can be seen that Made in China has now further consolidated its foundation, and its chassis is solid enough to make it more stable and farther.