Chinese Chip Sector Is Five Generations Behind the World: The Gap Will Expand
Chinese experts expect the country’s semiconductor sector to continue to lag behind global leaders.
In 2020, Chinese chip champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. was two or three generations behind global leaders. Today, following several rounds of crippling U.S. sanctions against the Chinese semiconductor sector, the People’s Republic’s chip industry is at least five generations behind — and the gap can expand, according to Gerald Yin, chief executive of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., a wafer fab equipment manufacturer from China, reports DigiTimes.
The past two U.S. administrations have introduced 15 semiconductor-focused sanctions to keep China’s semiconductor production technologies generations behind the global leaders — namely Intel from the U.S., Samsung from South Korea, and TSMC from Taiwan…
