A core stirs the world! Why are chips so important?

A core stirs the world! Why is the chip so important?

The streets are discussing the Hathi chip, everyone, more than 20 years ago, the phone is this, the volume is large, can only call, but also particularly expensive, when the big brother award of 30,000 a black bought together to buy a big brother, walking in the street is very honorable, can adhere to the 70 years ago, the computer is this, it is a behemoth, with 18,000 tubes, covering an area of 170 square meters, weighing as much as 30 tons per second can only carry out 5000 operations, with decades of technological development, cell phone computers become smaller, more functional, the price is also cheap, rely on what?

Chip called integrated circuits, that is, the circuit miniaturization miniaturization, before a large number of electronic devices and connectivity integrated in a small chip, the chip is ubiquitous, changing the unfamiliar from time to time, such as cell phones, ah, home appliances ID card artificial intelligence medical equipment and so on are inseparable from the chip, so that the chip is the history of mankind's one of the most revolutionary products, then. How is the status of our country's chip in the international arena?

We now look at a set of data from the macro, according to customs data, more than 80% of our country's chips need to rely on imports, the cumulative amount of imported chips in 2019 was 305.55 billion U.S. dollars, is China's largest imported goods, can account for the global chip gross domestic product of 2/3, this is a very alarming figure, then why does our country need to import so much new chips? Because the high-end chips we can not manufacture, the entire production process of the chip is divided into three major aspects of the design and manufacturing sealing and testing.

Chip design and chip manufacturing are generally separate, such as the United States Qualcomm, which itself is a chip design company, not manufacturing chip child, the chip design to TSMC, Samsung, such a company OEM manufacturing, China's most advanced chip design company is Huawei, Hass has been among the world's forefront of the chip design, and the gap between Qualcomm Intel Apple and is not large, but at present can only say that we have the advanced chip design company is Huawei, Hass is among the world's forefront of chip design, and Qualcomm Intel Apple. But at present can only say that we have advanced chip design technology, and chip design necessary.

The price and easy to read software, whether it is Huawei Kirin or Longxin Haikuang cpu, etc., all the use of foreign architecture and easy to read software, the domestic chip design architecture and easy to read software and the U.S. There is still a big gap between the completion of the chip design and the need to manufacture out of the chip manufacturing is more complex than the chip design, TSMC is the world's first chip foundry giants, whether it is profitable or process technology are far ahead of the rest of the world. process technology are far ahead, TSMC Samsung Semiconductor Semiconductor International are companies that manufacture chips.

Will Qualcomm Apple and Hesse designed chip manufacturing out, this kind of business it, itself is not involved in the chip, is only responsible for the chip manufacturing, the most advanced chip manufacturing company in mainland China is SMIC latest foundry technology, just made a quasi-seven-nanometer breakthrough, which is equivalent to TSMC's, right, nano TSMC is currently mass-produced is the five-nanometer chip, and recently announced three nanometer, as well as the two-nanometer Chips on the market plan, we still have a large gap, but is gradually narrowing.