Totally incorrect. SMIC right now is at 28 nm.
They keep talking about 14 nm, but they have been doing that now for 4 years. Their 14 nm is not even in risk production right now.
Also, I guess you can't understand the concept of an individual and a country, can you?
Why do you people have a problem in understanding the distinction between a country and a person?
Also let's even take your analogy and assume India is a child scoring 20 marks. Then I will say openly that India is a child scoring 20 marks. I have no problem.
But here, China is the child scoring 70 marks, and still cries out loud that he is scoring 95 marks, and tries to challenge the top kids.
I am pointing out the facts only.
You can see in the new thread that I posted how US has basically shut down one of your semiconductor champions simply by sanctions. JHICC was a Chinese champion in DRAM memory business. But it no longer can function without American material and equipment.
Since when did we say we are ahead of US, Korea and Taiwan? It was the western media saying we are threatening them. Most Chinese are humble folks unlike you Indians. Did we shout we are 95%, it seems like you are a child scoring 20% shouting that China is the kid scoring 70% shouting he is scoring 95%. It seems to me, it made you feel better we are still dependent on certain US technologies, because you can't do it, you feel happy if China is not catching up fast enough, this is the envy problem India is having.
Yes, SMIC has 14nm technology now but the process is not up and running till H1 2019, they already tested the processes but scaling up is another matter, so how can you say we are 4 generations behind? Hell if we are 4 generations behind, India is 50 generations behind? You seems to think advancement is linear, and China cannot leapfrog, why do you think AMEC is producing 7nm machines, hell they even have 5nm etchers in production? We are trying to leapfrog. Just because Indians are losers, don't associate us with you. A piece of shit teaching a the caterpillar how to bloom to become a butterfly sounds so stupid. Have you seen the Koreans and Taiwanese manufacture their own semiconductor equipment? They are strong in processes not equipment, China is in the middle, we want to be strong in both.
Example marine sector, you talk as if we are declining, the fact is Korea is the one facing a Chinese onslaught for the high end marine sector, we even make the port machinery for them. How do I know, I am in that field, and China is breathing fire down Korean necks. But you act as if you are an expert based on google, have you even been to a shipyard, step foot on an FPSO or a ship? Do you know what kind of technologies and skillset we are talking about? Hell you are only good in talking like the usual Indian, who think he knows everything, but when it comes to you doing it, you produce crap results.
AMEC 5nm plasma etching tools verified by TSMC
https://www.digitimes.com/newsshow/company.asp?datePublish=2018/12/21&pages=PD&seq=207
We have 5nm etchers now, are we ahead? Yes we are in certain equipment, but equipment and processing technology are two different things, how to utilizes the machine to produce using a certain recipe is secret. So before you go haha, China is behind, you need to see the big picture. Semiconductors are not just about processes, you need to control both process and equipment and China is pretty balanced in this regard unlike Korea and Taiwan. To be honest, US don't even have the 5nm etchers we are producing. Why don't you laugh at US and say they are behind?
Jinhua Semiconductor? That's just ONE memory maker, the real champion is YANGTZE MEMORY who just introduced a groundbreaking 3D NAND. We only grow stronger every time we face hurdles, we don't go down and cry and import like you. You ban us, we will find a way to produce what we lack. In Chinese thinking, nothing is impossible, as long as you try hard, fail, try again until you get it right. This is what separates us from Indians, you believe US is the only supreme being and you cannot be equals, it's the slumdog mentality.