First of all, to correct a point, chip technology contains many areas, and many of our Chinese chip technology does not lose in Europe and the United States, we are weak is the new chip manufacturing capacity, rather than the chip design capacity, and many chip design and manufacturing technology, the creation of more than Europe and the United States, so the subject's statement is not rigorous enough.
Talking about chip manufacturing technology, that is not a country can be manufactured, the Netherlands ASML company is the world's largest photolithography production enterprises, in mainland China is called Asmall company. The company is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, it is one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductor equipment, can be used to produce almost all of the world's complex grass-roots circuit components, and the equipment in the entire production process also plays an important role. And while chip design capabilities don't use photolithography, the chip manufacturing process is certainly indispensable to this company.
Many people may say that our country has its own photolithography machine. Indeed, this is the right thing to say, but we must know that the Netherlands this enterprise production of photolithography is not anyone can produce up, here involves China, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United States and other countries of the high-tech enterprises, this country to build circuit boards, which country polished parts, the last country and then produce a lens or something, this is a collection of the most powerful and advanced science and technology of several countries to manufacture out! Photolithography, used to make chips, chips will be bad? Therefore, if purely from the chip manufacturing technology, China is certainly a lot weaker, and photolithography manufacturing technology, is the need to invest a lot of manpower, material resources to research, technology progress years are in years, short-term progress is difficult.
Again, the share of China's chip imports, in 1999, China's mainland chip sales totaled 8.6 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 5.9% of the global market, and by 2018, the number of China's chip imports of 417,570,000,000,000 pieces, the amount of imports of up to 312,058,000,000 U.S. dollars, the value of exports of 846,000,000,000. If one day, our country's chip manufacturing technology is really a breakthrough, in addition to the necessary interests of the swap, then this 417,570,000,000,000 imported quantities, as well as 312,958,000,000 U.S. dollars in the transaction value, can be completely independent of the supply. Maybe so many people still don't know what this means.
This means that chip manufacturing technology once a breakthrough, then in the country will immediately create a "500 billion dollars" production line out, and this is still the annual demand, but also the demand in 2018, according to the rate of growth of 10% year-on-year, before 2030 is entirely possible to break through to the "trillion dollars". The company's business is a very important part of the company's success, and it's a very important part of the company's success.
But the problem is that chip technology is too difficult to break through, Huawei was sanctioned by the United States for this matter, forcing Huawei to sell the glory of this son of the phone brand. And because we only have the chip design capability, but no chip manufacturing capacity, by foreign countries to the neck, Huawei step difficult. Therefore, if the chip technology breakthrough, in addition to the original old road, may be graphene technology is a shortcut, once the research and development of breakthrough results, may be our country's chip exports will break through the level of hundreds of billions of dollars. But this is just fantasy, chip manufacturing is not so good breakthrough.