Huawei intends to establish a private chip plant in Shanghai that will not use US technology, enabling it to secure supplies for telecom infrastructure works despite US sanctions.
According to Arabianet, the Financial Times reported that the plant is run by the Shanghai Municipal Government-backed chip research company called the Shanghai Center for Research and Development (ICRD).
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the project is helping Huawei, which has no experience in making chips, to chart a path to long-term survival.
Industry experts said the planned domestic facility would be a potential new source for semiconductors after stocks of chips imported from Huawei built up since last year, according to the Arab portal for technical news. .
The manufacturing plant first tests the manufacture of low-quality 45nm chips, a world-leading chip technology that has been in use for 15 years.
Huawei wants to manufacture chips with 28 nm technology by the end of next year, and such a plan allows Huawei to make smart TVs and other IoT devices.
Huawei will then aim to produce 20nm chips by late 2022, so that they can be used to make most 5G communications equipment and allow this commercial activity To continue even with the US sanctions.
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The planned new production line for smartphones will not help, because the chips needed for smartphones have to be produced by more advanced technology nodes.
The chips that Huawei needs to build mobile base stations are made using 14nm technology, but it is possible to use 28nm technology.
Huawei can compensate for software and system shortcomings, and Chinese manufacturers can afford higher costs and operational shortcomings than their overseas competitors.
The project could stimulate China's ambitions to get rid of its dependence on foreign chip technology, especially from the United States, which wants to slow down China's development as a technological powerhouse.
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