SMIC official propaganda! 8 nm Chip end-of-year production

 China starts to produce 8nm Chip, Do not need a EUV lithography machine

As the U.S. government has intensified its repressive actions, it has made our country aware of the importance of core technology autonomy. Especially in the field of semiconductor chips, domestic must get rid of the dependence on foreign-related technology, because the Huawei example tells all domestic technology companies: only by holding the technology in their own hands, can we avoid being controlled by others!

Although there is still a certain gap between the domestic chip technology level and the old United States, now our country pays more and more attention to the independent research and development in this respect and begins to vigorously support the development of domestic semiconductor companies. In this case, domestic chips have no reason not to rise, catch up with foreign advanced technology is also imminent!

 Recently, the domestic came good news, SMIC official propaganda! nm chip trial production at the end of the year, no need to EUV lithography machine. This means that SMIC has made a great breakthrough in chip production, has been puzzling the domestic problems finally sees the hope of solving!

SMIC is the largest chip factory in mainland China. Its main business is to contract various chip products for customers, similar to TSMC. However, by contrast, SMIC must be relatively backward, because TSMC is the world's largest manufacturer, accounting for more than half of the market share.

We need to know that the measure of the strength of a factory does not scale, but technical strength. So SMIC wants to catch up with TSMC, there is still a long way to go. But after the breakthrough of SMIC's official propaganda technology on September 18, the gap between SMIC and TSMC was further narrowed!

SMIC's second-generation N 1 process has entered the customer import phase, will be trial production by the end of this year. The chip produced by this technology can reach the level of 10 nm. If the chip is calculated according to TSMC, it can be called 8 nm chip.

 Perhaps many people are the first to hear nm 8 chip, but it is almost the same process as the 7 nm chip, in all aspects of the performance is excellent. Judging from the data released by SMIC, the 8 nm chips produced by the N 1 process have improved their performance by 20%, reduced their power consumption by 7%, and reduced their area by 63% compared with the 14 nm of TSMC!

Thus, SMIC's N 1 process is still very strong, this is the first time in our country to reach the level of less than 10 nm. More importantly, SMIC's technology has freed itself from reliance on lithography, meaning that 8 nm chips can be produced without EUV lithography.

 I believe we all know that the lithography machine is essential equipment in the process of chip production, and only the high-end lithography machines can produce advanced chips. The reason why our domestic chip industry can not breakthrough is because of the high-end lithography machine.

Now the situation is different, SMIC's N 1 process can produce 8 nm of chips without lithography, which points out a new direction for domestic development. However,8 nm is not the top chip process, SMIC must continue to work hard to really get rid of foreign technology dependence.

 Overall, SMIC 8 nm chip trial production is rarely good news for our country, may promote the further development of domestic chips, and help Huawei out of difficulties. But we can not blindly optimistic, to know that TSMC and Samsung have reached the level of 5 nm, SMIC has a long way to go!

china mold maker wishes them early development, for our Chinese manufacturing industry.