Opinionated - China Chipping Away to Semiconductor Dominance
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i'm laughing hard at the korean & taiwan turds forced to transfer their tech and building new fabs in the US. lol. those retards still don't know how screwed they are. 
Korean chipmakers in quandary over US request
The US government’s strategic interest in chips is putting South Korean chipmakers in a quandary, as Washington adds pressure on chipmakers to share sensitive data on technology, clients and inventory status. With a stated purpose of solving the chip shortage, which is affecting automotive and...
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Korean are not like Japanese. They really have more independent decision than Japan. For example, if SK obey US. They would have been forced by US to shelve out their differences for Dodko island and stop all those anti-Japanese activities to concentrate in US effort in suppress rising China by alliance with Japan.i'm laughing hard at the korean & taiwan turds forced to transfer their tech and building new fabs in the US. lol. those retards still don't know how screwed they are.
Korean chipmakers in quandary over US request
The US government’s strategic interest in chips is putting South Korean chipmakers in a quandary, as Washington adds pressure on chipmakers to share sensitive data on technology, clients and inventory status. With a stated purpose of solving the chip shortage, which is affecting automotive and...www.koreaherald.com
But SK didnt. Number one priority for SK is restore pride and revenge against Japan previous occupation. Suppressing rising China become only secondary priority. SK will be fiercely defending her tech against US ransom. They are not as obedient as Japanese to American.
they will surrender to that american international rules-based order and be granted honorary white country like japan. many korean youths that love holdinding american nuts will love this new status.
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CHINA HAS ALREADY REACHED EXASCALE–ON TWO SEPARATE SYSTEMS
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China Has Already Reached Exascale – On Two Separate Systems
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A mysterious Chinese GPU firm with deep pockets is gunning for Nvidia and AMD
Cryptically named Moore Threads, loosely based on Moore’s law
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OPPO launches its first self-developed chip, striving for chip supply autonomy
Global Times
04:35 Dec 15 2021
Photo: VCG
Chinese phone maker OPPO launched its first self-developed chip on Tuesday, a key breakthrough in core technology, as more Chinese companies strive to achieve chip supply autonomy.
The name of OPPO's chip, MariSilicon X, is inspired in the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the sea in the world, reflecting the difficulties of developing a chip, OPPO founder and CEO, Chen Mingyong, said on Tuesday adding that the company will continue increasing investment on the self-developed chip with a team of thousands in a down-to-earth manner.
"The birth of MariSilicon X signals that OPPO has entered the 'deep waters' of R&D. Technology companies must solve key problems with breakthroughs in key technologies. Without core technology there can be no future," Chen said.
The MariSilicon X, which adopts a 6 nm advanced process technology, is the first NPU chip designed for imaging at the mobile terminal and will be carried on the latest series of OPPO's high-end flagship Find X devices in the first quarter of 2022.
Prior to OPPO, domestic phone makers Xiaomi and VIVO released their self-developed imaging chips, the Xiaomi Surge C1 and VIVO V1.
Same efforts have been made in the Chinese car industry. On Friday, SiEngine Technology, a Wuhan-based car chip designer, revealed China's first 7-nanometer chip used for smart intelligent automobile cockpits.
Mass production of the chip will start and it will be installed in Geely vehicles by late 2022.
The chip will break the monopoly of international suppliers in this market and fill the gap of self-designed main chips of high-end intelligent cockpit platforms in China, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said in a statement on Tuesday.
Global Times
04:35 Dec 15 2021
Photo: VCG
Chinese phone maker OPPO launched its first self-developed chip on Tuesday, a key breakthrough in core technology, as more Chinese companies strive to achieve chip supply autonomy.
The name of OPPO's chip, MariSilicon X, is inspired in the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the sea in the world, reflecting the difficulties of developing a chip, OPPO founder and CEO, Chen Mingyong, said on Tuesday adding that the company will continue increasing investment on the self-developed chip with a team of thousands in a down-to-earth manner.
"The birth of MariSilicon X signals that OPPO has entered the 'deep waters' of R&D. Technology companies must solve key problems with breakthroughs in key technologies. Without core technology there can be no future," Chen said.
The MariSilicon X, which adopts a 6 nm advanced process technology, is the first NPU chip designed for imaging at the mobile terminal and will be carried on the latest series of OPPO's high-end flagship Find X devices in the first quarter of 2022.
Prior to OPPO, domestic phone makers Xiaomi and VIVO released their self-developed imaging chips, the Xiaomi Surge C1 and VIVO V1.
Same efforts have been made in the Chinese car industry. On Friday, SiEngine Technology, a Wuhan-based car chip designer, revealed China's first 7-nanometer chip used for smart intelligent automobile cockpits.
Mass production of the chip will start and it will be installed in Geely vehicles by late 2022.
The chip will break the monopoly of international suppliers in this market and fill the gap of self-designed main chips of high-end intelligent cockpit platforms in China, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Vivo debuts in-house imaging chip amid industry push for self-reliance
By Global Times
Published: Sep 06, 2021 09:43 PM
A chip manufacture machine Photo: VCG
Chinese technology company Vivo unveiled its self-designed imaging chip V1 on Monday, joining other leading domestic phone vendors including Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO in building in-house chips as they seek self-sufficiency in chip-making amid the US' push of "tech decoupling" with China.
It's the first professional imaging chip the company has independently developed. The research and development (R&D) process lasted 24 months and more than 300 people participated in the project, according to a press release the company sent to the Global Times.
With a 32Mb cache, the image signal processor (ISP) chip features high performance, low latency and low power dissipation, it said.
The ISP chip is responsible for taking in raw pixel data from a camera sensor and then performing all necessary steps to convert that to final photos or video frames, whereas a system on a chip (SoC) chip is the processor of data in a smartphone, and many domestic manufacturers rely on products from foreign suppliers like Qualcomm.
The announcement comes prior to its formal launch of the Vivo X70 series, scheduled on Thursday.
Vivo has held the top spot in China's smartphone market so far in 2021, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research. The manufacturer captured a 23 percent market share in the second quarter, followed by OPPO at 21 percent and Xiaomi at 17 percent.
Chinese smartphone makers ramped up investment in innovation after Huawei's crucial components supply was banned by the US. Their dependence on external companies including Qualcomm and MediaTek results in almost no differentiation among smartphones produced by phone vendors, experts said.
In addition to Huawei's Kirin SoC and Xiaomi's self-made smartphone ISP named Surge C1, OPPO's semiconductor subsidiary Zeku is reportedly developing its own ISP chips, which are expected to be equipped with the Find X5 series in early 2022. Meanwhile, OPPO is doing R&D on SoC technology, media reports said.
Sun Yanbiao, head of Shenzhen-based research firm N1mobile, told the Global Times on Monday that developing their own chips is the only way for domestic smartphone brands to compete with highend players like Apple and Samsung, which already have a comprehensive layout in chips, algorithms, supply chains and even the capability to make smartphone processors.
"As the vision of future consumer electronics is for increasingly smart devices in the 5G era, ISP chips will be the threshold for competition," Sun said. He said that these companies' investment in chipset R&D will create a virtuous circle, since smartphones will sustain remarkable performance, compared with other smart devices, in market size, technological innovations and functions over the next five years.
The Chinese central authorities' favorable policies including tax breaks to buoy the growth of the chip and software sectors are also prompting more terminal manufacturers to jump on the chip design and manufacturing bandwagon, Sun said, adding domestic firms are expected to make new breakthroughs based on the experience they've built up over the years.
By Global Times
Published: Sep 06, 2021 09:43 PM
A chip manufacture machine Photo: VCG
Chinese technology company Vivo unveiled its self-designed imaging chip V1 on Monday, joining other leading domestic phone vendors including Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO in building in-house chips as they seek self-sufficiency in chip-making amid the US' push of "tech decoupling" with China.
It's the first professional imaging chip the company has independently developed. The research and development (R&D) process lasted 24 months and more than 300 people participated in the project, according to a press release the company sent to the Global Times.
With a 32Mb cache, the image signal processor (ISP) chip features high performance, low latency and low power dissipation, it said.
The ISP chip is responsible for taking in raw pixel data from a camera sensor and then performing all necessary steps to convert that to final photos or video frames, whereas a system on a chip (SoC) chip is the processor of data in a smartphone, and many domestic manufacturers rely on products from foreign suppliers like Qualcomm.
The announcement comes prior to its formal launch of the Vivo X70 series, scheduled on Thursday.
Vivo has held the top spot in China's smartphone market so far in 2021, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research. The manufacturer captured a 23 percent market share in the second quarter, followed by OPPO at 21 percent and Xiaomi at 17 percent.
Chinese smartphone makers ramped up investment in innovation after Huawei's crucial components supply was banned by the US. Their dependence on external companies including Qualcomm and MediaTek results in almost no differentiation among smartphones produced by phone vendors, experts said.
In addition to Huawei's Kirin SoC and Xiaomi's self-made smartphone ISP named Surge C1, OPPO's semiconductor subsidiary Zeku is reportedly developing its own ISP chips, which are expected to be equipped with the Find X5 series in early 2022. Meanwhile, OPPO is doing R&D on SoC technology, media reports said.
Sun Yanbiao, head of Shenzhen-based research firm N1mobile, told the Global Times on Monday that developing their own chips is the only way for domestic smartphone brands to compete with highend players like Apple and Samsung, which already have a comprehensive layout in chips, algorithms, supply chains and even the capability to make smartphone processors.
"As the vision of future consumer electronics is for increasingly smart devices in the 5G era, ISP chips will be the threshold for competition," Sun said. He said that these companies' investment in chipset R&D will create a virtuous circle, since smartphones will sustain remarkable performance, compared with other smart devices, in market size, technological innovations and functions over the next five years.
The Chinese central authorities' favorable policies including tax breaks to buoy the growth of the chip and software sectors are also prompting more terminal manufacturers to jump on the chip design and manufacturing bandwagon, Sun said, adding domestic firms are expected to make new breakthroughs based on the experience they've built up over the years.
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Tencent launches three self-designed chips in expansion drive, helping boost China’s semiconductor development efforts
Tencent Holdings launched three new self-designed chips on Wednesday, enabling the Chinese internet giant to play a role in the country’s development efforts in semiconductors and to further expand beyond video gaming, mobile payments and social media.
“Chips are the key components of hardware and the core infrastructure of the industrial internet,” said Dowson Tong Taosang, president of Tencent’s cloud and smart industries group, as he unveiled the three chips at the company’s Digital Ecosystem Summit in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province.
The Shenzhen-based firm’s new silicon products include: artificial intelligence(AI) chip Zixiao, which is focused on processing images, video and natural language; video transcoding device Canghai; and network interface controller Xuanling.
Tong said Tencent has long-term plans for developing advanced chips, marking the first time the company has publicly shared the progress of its push into semiconductor research and development. Tencent did not reveal which major chip foundry it has contracted to manufacture the three silicon devices.
By designing its own chips, Tencent intensifies China’s push towards semiconductor self-sufficiency and the establishment of a competitive domestic supply chain for these devices.
Chip production is a priority in China’s 14th five-year plan from 2021 to 2025, as tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to heat up US-China tech rivalry. The country’s chip efforts are also expected to help counter a global semiconductor shortage.
The stakes are high for Tencent in the semiconductor industry after rival Alibaba Group Holding introduced last month its own general-purpose central processing unit, the Yitian 710, for its Panjiu servers that will drive the e-commerce giant’s vast cloud computing operation.
Alibaba and Tencent compete head-on in China’s vast cloud infrastructure services market, which was estimated to be worth US$6.6 billion in the second quarter. Alibaba Cloud had a market-leading 33.8 per cent share in that quarter, according to data from tech research firm Canalys. Tencent Cloud had an 18.8 per cent share in the same period to rank third behind the cloud unit of Huawei Technologies Co, which had a 19.3 per cent share.
At the Wuhan event, Tencent’s Tong pledged US$3 billion worth of resources to help the company’s cloud business partners over the next three years.
Tencent’s AI chip, Zixiao, has already entered trial production and performs 100 per cent better than existing products of its kind, according to company vice-president Qiu Yuepeng at the Wuhan event.
The compression rate of video transcoding chip Canghai has measured 30 per cent greater than existing chips of its kind, according to Tencent, citing a recent industry competition. Xuanling, meanwhile, performed four times better than other network interface controllers.
While Tencent is mostly known for having the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue and for operating multipurpose super app WeChat, the company has made strategic investments in the semiconductor industry over the past few years.
In January, Tencent took part in the US$279 million Series C fundraising round of AI chip start-up Enflame Technology. That marked the fourth time in more than two years that Tencent has invested in the Shanghai-based firm, which is now valued at 10.8 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion).
Shares of Hong Kong-listed Tencent rose 1.08 per cent on Wednesday to close at HK$469.
- Tencent unveiled on Wednesday its Zixiao artificial intelligence chip, Canghai video transcoding device and Xuanling network interface controller
- The internet giant’s semiconductor launch followed Alibaba’s introduction of its own self-designed Yitian 710 chip in October
Tencent Holdings launched three new self-designed chips on Wednesday, enabling the Chinese internet giant to play a role in the country’s development efforts in semiconductors and to further expand beyond video gaming, mobile payments and social media.
“Chips are the key components of hardware and the core infrastructure of the industrial internet,” said Dowson Tong Taosang, president of Tencent’s cloud and smart industries group, as he unveiled the three chips at the company’s Digital Ecosystem Summit in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province.
The Shenzhen-based firm’s new silicon products include: artificial intelligence(AI) chip Zixiao, which is focused on processing images, video and natural language; video transcoding device Canghai; and network interface controller Xuanling.
Tong said Tencent has long-term plans for developing advanced chips, marking the first time the company has publicly shared the progress of its push into semiconductor research and development. Tencent did not reveal which major chip foundry it has contracted to manufacture the three silicon devices.
By designing its own chips, Tencent intensifies China’s push towards semiconductor self-sufficiency and the establishment of a competitive domestic supply chain for these devices.
Chip production is a priority in China’s 14th five-year plan from 2021 to 2025, as tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to heat up US-China tech rivalry. The country’s chip efforts are also expected to help counter a global semiconductor shortage.
The stakes are high for Tencent in the semiconductor industry after rival Alibaba Group Holding introduced last month its own general-purpose central processing unit, the Yitian 710, for its Panjiu servers that will drive the e-commerce giant’s vast cloud computing operation.
Alibaba and Tencent compete head-on in China’s vast cloud infrastructure services market, which was estimated to be worth US$6.6 billion in the second quarter. Alibaba Cloud had a market-leading 33.8 per cent share in that quarter, according to data from tech research firm Canalys. Tencent Cloud had an 18.8 per cent share in the same period to rank third behind the cloud unit of Huawei Technologies Co, which had a 19.3 per cent share.
At the Wuhan event, Tencent’s Tong pledged US$3 billion worth of resources to help the company’s cloud business partners over the next three years.
Tencent’s AI chip, Zixiao, has already entered trial production and performs 100 per cent better than existing products of its kind, according to company vice-president Qiu Yuepeng at the Wuhan event.
The compression rate of video transcoding chip Canghai has measured 30 per cent greater than existing chips of its kind, according to Tencent, citing a recent industry competition. Xuanling, meanwhile, performed four times better than other network interface controllers.
While Tencent is mostly known for having the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue and for operating multipurpose super app WeChat, the company has made strategic investments in the semiconductor industry over the past few years.
In January, Tencent took part in the US$279 million Series C fundraising round of AI chip start-up Enflame Technology. That marked the fourth time in more than two years that Tencent has invested in the Shanghai-based firm, which is now valued at 10.8 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion).
Shares of Hong Kong-listed Tencent rose 1.08 per cent on Wednesday to close at HK$469.
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Disturbing global chip production flow and forcing private companies in China for advanced chip tech could be single biggest strategic mistake the US has committed.
But, I guess, they had no other option but commit this mistake, somewhat hoping that China would become a Japan 2.0.
But, I guess, they had no other option but commit this mistake, somewhat hoping that China would become a Japan 2.0.
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The US has been making alot of mistakes down the road
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Develop chips is no a problem for China, the problem is fabricating 7nm and below high end chips.
I believe people like Liang Mong Song are mole in SMIC. They pushing for more for manufacturing of mature chips rather than seeking priority in making high end chips like 7nm and below.
Even China able to capture high percentage of chips market thru mature chips like 14nm and 28nm are useless if we cannot manufacture high end chips for our own Chinese company. All effort shall focus on high end chips. Even N+1 method is ill efficient for mass production compare to EUV method. It must still be pursued. Chinese Government need to come in to subside those chips until solution are found.
I believe people like Liang Mong Song are mole in SMIC. They pushing for more for manufacturing of mature chips rather than seeking priority in making high end chips like 7nm and below.
Even China able to capture high percentage of chips market thru mature chips like 14nm and 28nm are useless if we cannot manufacture high end chips for our own Chinese company. All effort shall focus on high end chips. Even N+1 method is ill efficient for mass production compare to EUV method. It must still be pursued. Chinese Government need to come in to subside those chips until solution are found.
