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China’s Push for Self-Sufficient Semiconductor Industry: Insights from Beijing Times

China's Push for Self-Sufficient Semiconductor Industry: Insights from Beijing Times
Employees work on a chip production line of a tech company in Shishi, Fujian province.

Beijing Times, China's leading independent online news platform, has recently published an article titled "China's Semiconductor Industry: Overcoming Challenges to Achieve Self-Sufficiency," which discusses the country's ambitious efforts to establish its semiconductor industry as a major player in the global market. The article sheds light on the challenges China faces, such as the need for foreign semiconductor technologies and equipment to produce high-end chips for civilian use, as well as the shortage of professionals with expertise in chip technologies. Despite these challenges, China has been making significant strides in developing its chip industry.

One significant challenge China faces is its reliance on foreign semiconductor technologies and equipment to produce high-end chips for civilian use. While China is able to produce its own chips for military use and has made significant strides in the design of smartphone chips and modems, it still requires foreign semiconductor technologies and equipment to produce high-end chips for civilian use. This is because China's chip companies began to work on chips much later than their Western counterparts and need more time to gain experience and accumulate knowledge. The shortage of professionals with expertise in chip technologies further compounds the issue, making it challenging to cultivate a thriving ecosystem around the industry.

However, China is not deterred by these challenges and has been taking significant steps to overcome them. As of May 2022, 29 universities in China had established integrated circuits colleges or chip talent training bases. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also published a guideline calling for more efforts to cultivate top-quality engineers. These efforts will undoubtedly help China to bridge the gap between itself and the Western chip-making industry.

The US government's crackdown on Chinese technology companies has also spurred China's push to grow its domestic chip sector. The ban on sales of premium processors to China's high-performance computers has accelerated China's development of its own CPUs, turning a crisis into an opportunity. In response to the ban, China has ramped up its investment in the development of domestic chip-making technologies and has been working to improve its own CPU designs.

China's aspiration to compete at the highest levels of chip-making has captured the imagination of its citizens, and the country is investing heavily in the development of its semiconductor industry. As China continues to mobilize resources nationwide to promote the development of ICs, it is only a matter of time before the country sorts out its chip woes and emerges as a leader in the industry.

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