Chinese technology companies have seen many restrictions placed on them by the United States government as well as their allies. But recently, companies such as SMIC, China's largest semiconductor chip maker, have demonstrated the ability to manufacture chips using the 7nm technology leveraged by Huawei.
Recently, one of TSMC's former deputy presidents, Burn J. Lin, said that it is now very difficult for the government to stop the progress of Chinese semiconductor chip makers, especially because they now have the ability and expertise to continue developing more advanced chip making equipment.
In fact, SMIC uses the AMSL Twinscan NXT :2000i lithography equipment which is seen to be capable of producing processing chips on a 7nm and 5nm scale, meaning that SMIC is soon expected to be able to produce processing chips with 5nm technology soon.
Now, SMIC is seen as responsible for developing the Huawei 990 processor chip, and has managed to produce as many as 70 million processor chips for the brand's devices. The transition to the 5nm process looks to be increasingly difficult, but SMIC has a few ways to ensure that they successfully produce the latest generation of processing chips.
Lin said that what is more important for the United States is to maintain a leading position in chip design and not restrict the logistics of the Chinese market's technology production, because it is pointless.
The IT industry is now seen to be very concerned about the combination of performance and energy efficiency, it is seen that the best way to reduce dependence on Chinese technology production is to ensure that the offerings from other technology component companies are even better.