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Due to well-known reasons, everyone has been trying to find domestic chip companies recently, wanting to see how good their chip levels are and whether they can become Huawei's "backup." At the same time, someone counted and said that from 2010 to 2018, domestic IC design has grown from 582 to 1698 companies, a threefold increase in number, indicating that domestic chip development has been very fast in recent years, and everyone attaches great importance to it.     So with so many chip companies, what are their chip levels?

At the NeurIPS conference held in early December, IBM showcased a new artificial intelligence chip.
IBM researchers claimed that they have developed a more efficient model for processing neural networks. This model only requires 8-bit floating-point precision for training and even only 4-bit floating-point precision for inference. The research results were presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and Neural Information Processing Systems in early December 2018.

Regarding chips, technology practitioners worldwide are full of fantasies. In fact, companies that have mastered chip design, packaging, and testing have mostly established "evergreen" foundations, such as earlier Intel, which dominated the personal PC field. Although it suffered setbacks in the mobile internet era, its foundation is thick, and there is time to correct mistakes; in the smartphone era, chip manufacturers became even more prominent, even moving from the background into the public eye, becoming important props for salespeople to improve "status." Who says women only look at appearance and cameras when buying phones? We also need to compare...

According to IDC data, global tablet computer shipments reached 43 million units in the third quarter, still a considerable market. After experiencing continuous decline, it achieved a quarter-on-quarter growth rate of 9.8% this quarter, which is good positive news for the tablet industry.
Strategy Analytics data shows that in the third quarter, Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, and Samsung LSI ranked as the top five in tablet chip market share, with Apple, Qualcomm, and Intel accounting for nearly 70% of market share, making survival increasingly difficult for Chinese tablet chip companies.
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On April 16 Beijing time, the U.S. Commerce Department officially confirmed the issuance of an export ban order against ZTE. This ban order was like a heavy hammer, awakening many in China's technology sector who had become accustomed to swimming in warm water.
Importing chips from abroad is not new for Chinese technology companies. Chips have long surpassed oil and natural gas to become China's largest annual import demand. It is worth noting that the U.S. chip embargo against ZTE is both an extension of the trade war and conceals the swordplay of great power competition. Chips are not only the core components of the consumer digital industry but also affect artificial intelligence, national security, smart...

U.S. Think Tank Report: China's Chip Innovation is Slow, Difficult to Break Through
 
Original title: U.S. Think Tank Report: China's Chip Innovation is Slow, Difficult to Break Through
Recently, CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), one of the two major U.S. think tanks, published an article titled "Learning the Superior Techniques of the Barbarians: China’s Pursuit of Semiconductor Independence&

Under the background of Sino-US trade friction, the United States' heavy-handed move against ZTE this time also revealed the pain of China's semiconductor industry. So, what is the current status of China's chip technology? Don't worry, let me explain slowly.
What is the current status of China's chip technology?
Chip issues can never develop as rapidly as the internet. Even facing ZTE's sanctions, everyone saw the current state of Chinese technology with its cover pulled off.

In this situation, Unigroup Guoxin's stock price also shyly rose 9.99, and the reason for saying shyly is that it took a whole day to complete this 9.99. Obviously, investors are...

It should be said that China's capabilities in chip manufacturing are continuously improving, especially in the aerospace field. Chinese satellites use domestic chips, reducing dependence on foreign chips. At the same time, after the ZTE incident, the continuous efforts of Chinese high-tech companies in the chip field have brought significant changes to the microchip market. No wonder some Russian media said: China's development in the microchip field may shake the United States' long-standing dominance in this field.
However, we still believe that although China's technology in chip design has improved in recent years, the biggest obstacles are the lack of core technology in high-end fields and related areas...

When talking about lithography machines, everyone first thinks of the Netherlands. Indeed, Dutch lithography machines are among the best globally, and even the top lithography machine manufacturing company ASML is located in the Netherlands. The reason why Dutch lithography machines are so famous is largely due to the significant efforts the Netherlands has made in this area, such as technology investment, R&D teams, and capital investment, which are difficult for other countries to match.

But such advanced Dutch lithography machines are rarely sold to China. To put it more bluntly, Dutch lithography machines have been sold to South Korea, the United States, with major clients such as Samsung, Intel, TSMC, etc., yet specifically not sold...