The United States is positioning its chips throughout the world to help prevent the potential domination of China over specialized chip industries in order to safeguard US industry as well as contain China.
The United States is positioning its chips throughout the world to help prevent the potential domination of China over specialized chip industries in order to safeguard US industry as well as contain China.
Toms Hardware said:The U.S. Commerce Department has added seven Chinese entities to the DoC's Entity List, essentially barring these companies and organizations from obtaining almost all advanced technologies developed in the U.S. Among the entities are two major CPU developers from China: Tianjin Phytium Information Technology and Sunway Microelectronics (or Shenwei Microelectronics).
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Also, the blacklist now includes CPU designer Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, which develops system-on-chips for client and server PCs based on the Armv8 ISA, and Sunway Microelectronics, which as a part of Shanghai High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center, designs proprietary supercomputer processors.
The inclusion of an entity into the Entity List restricts its ability to access items and technologies that are parts of the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). American companies cannot export, re-export, or transfer items subject to the EAR to entities in the Entity List without a special license, which will be subject to a presumption of denial.
CPUs and SoCs, including those for supercomputers, are designed using electronic design automation (EDA) as well as other tools and technologies developed in the U.S. Without access to these tools and technologies, it will be close to impossible for Phytium or Sunway to develop their processors. It is unclear whether contract makers of semiconductor like TSMC or SMIC can actually produce chips for Phytium and Sunway.
If you happen across the thread or screencap could you share it here? It sounds interesting.You just reminded me of a huge-ass /pol/ thread screencap from august about how the IS had cut off China's supply of some highly-toxic chemical that was also used in manufacturing chips. Here it is. Supposedly Huawei and other companies were already on a time-limit for how many domestically produced chips they could make. I thought I saved the screenshot.
Toms Hardware said:The U.S. semiconductor industry funding law is developed by senators Mark Kelly, John Cornyn, Mark Warner, and Tom Cotton. According to a draft document seen by Reuters, the plan is expected to include $39 billion in production and R&D incentives and $10.5 billion to implement various national programs over a five-year period. Among the government-supported R&D initiatives are the National Semiconductor Technology Center and National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program.
The chip industry supporting bill will be a part of a bigger $110 billion effort to fund U.S. technology research in a bid to better compete with China. The same bill is also set to include semiconductor requirements of this year's National Defense Authorization Act, which will obviously somewhat help the American microelectronics industry, too.
A bad idea to spend money on this as well. I don't care if we buy semiconductors from Korea, that's a good thing that benefits both of our countries. Tax Chinese trade as much as you want, but free trade with allies is just a good idea.A group of four US Senators unveiled a $50 billion dollar U.S. Semiconductor Bill they hope will bring more production to the United States which only possesses 12% of worldwide semiconductor manufacturing.
South Korea meanwhile has unveiled a plan to invest $450 billion into its semiconductor industry in the future while Reuters reports the Peoples Republic of China is investing $150 billion into the same industry as well.
U.S. Senators Close to Inking $52 Billion Semiconductor Funding Plan
Joe Biden's $50 billion semiconductor plan is about to become lawwww.tomshardware.com
Bets on how long it lasts before Biden or his puppetmasters quietly reverse it.
A bad idea to spend money on this as well. I don't care if we buy semiconductors from Korea, that's a good thing that benefits both of our countries. Tax Chinese trade as much as you want, but free trade with allies is just a good idea.
Korea is safer then Taiwan.If Korea was a peninsula off of the Americas, Europe, or even Africa, I might be more inclined to agree. But the problem right now, is that between Taiwan and SK, all of that industry is one volley of short range missiles from being gutted.
That's a strategic security issue.
Nikkei said:The new plant would carry out chip packaging, using advanced technology to integrate different types of semiconductors onto wafers. Innovation in packaging chips is emerging as an industry battleground for TSMC and rivals including Intel and Samsung, and this would be TSMC's first such facility outside Taiwan.
TSMC is already building its first U.S. chip manufacturing plant in more than two decades -- a $12 billion facility in Arizona, to go into production by 2024. It will make 5 nanometer chips -- currently the most advanced generation of semiconductors that are used in Apple's latest iPhone and Mac processors.
Be nice if some American companies stepped up to the plate.