US wants to keep China five generations behind in chips, says exec
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The US wants to keep China at least five generations behind the leading-edge in chip manufacturing, according to Gerald Yin, the founder and CEO of China’s Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC).
The US and its allies have introduced a series of export controls over the last several years and argued that these are narrowly-defined and for the purposes of national security.
Speaking at a semiconductor equipment conference in Wuxi, said the broader intention behind the US export controls was made clear by the latest round of restrictions announced in October 2022.
According to South China Morning Post, Yin pointed out that from 2019 up to the present the Trump and Biden administrations have implemented 15 rounds of semiconductor restrictions, aimed at halting the development of China’s semiconductor industry. By the time these restrictions came in China’s leading foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) was pioneering 14nm silicon but since then US restrictions have more or less halted developments within China.
Yin said that the gap between China and foreign countries has grown from two generations to five generations as China has become stuck at the 28nm or 14nm node while the rest of the world is able to work at the leading-edge at 3nm
Yin’s discussion of the political background to the semiconductor industry is unusual.
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