China Industry Insiders Voice Caution on Chipmaking Catch-up

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Josh Horwitz and Sijia Jiang, China Chip Industry Insiders Voice Caution on Catch-up Efforts. Reuters, June 13, 2019.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/c ... oice-122129306.html

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(a) "Gu Wenjun, chief analyst at Shanghai-based consultancy ICWise"  芯谋研究 (半导体)首席分析师顾文军
(b) "A former top engineer the Chinese chip design firm Unisoc 紫光展锐 通信（上海）有限公司 [致力于移动通信和物联网领域核心芯片; resulting from merger of 展讯通信 and 锐迪科], a unit of Tsinghua Unigroup told Reuters the company was often encouraged to use a sister company's memory chips. But that firm, called Guoxin [name changes on May 28, 2018 from Guoxin 西安紫光国芯半导体有限公司 (紫光国芯) to Guoxin Micro 紫光国芯微电子股份有限公司 (紫光国微)], could not offer technology that was advanced enough."
(c) "While TSMC was launching chips with circuit widths of just 7 nanometers in 2018 [volume production in April 2018], SMIC is only now readying production of 14 nanometer chips - which was state-of-the-art in 2014 [by Intel in October 2014; Samsung's 14nm volume production in December 2014; volume production of 16nm -- in lieu of 14 -- by TSMC in July 2015; predecessor 22nm]."