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Following a DIGITIMES Asia report in mid-May indicating that Chinese foundry SMIC has , recent Chinese media reports suggested that SMIC's Shanghai-based subsidiary, Semiconductor Manufacturing South Corp., continues to offer manufacturing service at 14nm and below.
Japan has officially announced that it will tighten controls on exports of 23 types of semiconductor equipment to China starting July 23. How the new trade curbs will impact Chinese semiconductor industry is drawing increasing concerns from market and industry observers.
China's top foundry SMIC unexpectedly removed 14nm process service from its webstie home page, and its co-CEO Liang Mong Song, the key figure in charge of the company's development of advanced processes, has not made public appearances for a long time, sparking market concerns about whether and how its process advancement will be carried on or will eventually become an unrealized dream of Liang.
China's tech giant Huawei and top semiconductor foundry SMIC apparently adopt different approaches against US chip curbs. The former has just announced its successful development of electronic design automation (EDA) tools for chips above 14nm process, while the latter has quietly removed 14nm process technology from its service list on its website. What messages are these two Chinese tech players sending through their recent actions? And what are their actual calculations?
At its first-quarter 2023 earnings call on May 12, SMIC's top officials remain tight-lipped about the pure-play foundry's advanced manufacturing processes, be it 7nm or 14nm. Apart from emphasizing the urgent orders coming from China's consumer and smartphone sectors that led to full utilization of SMIC's 28nm and 40nm fabs in second-quarter 2023, SMIC's official website has removed 14nm process technology from its list of foundry solutions, which means that it no longer takes orders at this node.