China's high-speed trains will use 'Chinese chips'

[Beidou2020]

China's first 8-inch IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) chip production line, built by CSR (China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation Limited) Zhuzhou base, will be put in operation in June 2014.

This means that China has broken foreign monopoly on the core technology of high-speed trains, and China's high-speed trains will use the "Chinese chips."

The high-speed trains manufactured by CSR, with the domestic 8-inch IGBT chips installed, achieved a speed of over 600 kilometers per hour in the test run. CSR will become the only company in China which has comprehensively mastered IGBT chip technology R&D, module packaging & testing and system application.

 

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China's high-speed trains will use 'Chinese chips'
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New domestic 8-inch IGBT chips installed aboard this beast of a train：

高铁“中国芯”即将量产：速度超600km/h-高铁,中国芯,量产,速度,600,南车-驱动之家

 

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