Investments in chip production chains
The National Investment Fund of the integrated circuits manufacture (chin. 国家集成电路产业投资基金) increases its investment in supporting the individual links in the semiconductor production chain. The focus of the fund is on areas specified as semiconductor design, equipment, machinery, components, natural materials and future technologies.
As part of these activities, the fund launched the second phase of financing (Big Fund II, chin. 大基金二). He invested
- 7.118 billion RMB (PLN 4.020 billion) in ShangHai HuaLi Microelectronics Corp. (chin. 上海华利微电子有限公司) and
- 1.511 billion RMB (about 850 million PLN/PLN) in Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co. (杭州思兰微电子有限公司).
These are companies that manufacture integrated circuits and luminescent diodes.
To date, the National Investment Fund of the Integrated Agreements manufacture has invested over 61 billion RMB (about PLN 34.3 billion) in 40 companies related to the production and improvement of chips. It besides plans to increase backing in the sectors of fresh technologies, artificial intelligence, 5G, 6G and intelligent production automation.
The restrictions on technology transfer introduced by the US, Japan and the Netherlands forced Chinese semiconductor companies and fresh technologies to reduce dependence on abroad companies. fresh events, specified as 7nm chips in the fresh HuaWei Mate 60 Pro smartphone seem to indicate that China's independency from abroad technologies is taking place much faster than expected. This surprises both decision makers and the largest players from the United States. Building our own national supply chains for the production of integrated circuits is part of the program "Made in China 2025′′ launched in 2015. According to the programme, China's nonsubjective is to accomplish 70% self-sufficiency in semiconductor production by 2025.
Source: baijiahao.baidu.com
New supercomputer and pioneering technologies
The National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou (chin. 广州的国家超级计算中心) presented a new, country-developed supercomputer, Tianhe Xingyi (chin. „).
The performance tests of the fresh supercomputer were not revealed, but the Chinese state press agency Xinhua reported that it surpassed its predecessor's performance, or Tianhe-2 (chin. 天河-2), which for 3 years (2013-2016) was a planet leader.
Tianhe-2 is estimated to have a highest performance of 100 petaflops, with a sustained performance of 61.44 petaflops after an update in 2018. Tianhe Xingyi is said to double this performance.
As China no longer reports Linpack benchmark results nor participates in the Top500 competition, it is hard to get reliable performance data. Tianhe-3's supercomputer was not officially announced, but it is believed to be an exascale system, capable of no little than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.
In 2021, the founder of the Asian Technology Information Program, David Kahaner, shared his presumption that the TH-3 strategy was based on the Phytium 2000+ strategy FTP Arm and the Matrix 2000+ MTP accelerator and is able to accomplish 1.7 exaflops in highest mode/1.3 exaflops in sustain mode, making it the most powerful supercomputer in the world, or at least equivalent to the American Frontier supercomputer.
Importantly, the fresh supercomputer is entirely Chinese technologies, components and systems. 1 of the key objectives of banning technology transfer to China was to halt Chinese supercomputer programs utilized by the Chinese army. Again, it turns out that these measures have no effect. The another way around. They seem to stimulate the Chinese side to increase efforts to find technology solutions free of influence and dependence on 3rd country technologies. With affirmative results.
China has 202 of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world.
Sources: baijiahao.baidu.com; eguangzhou.gov.cn; nudist.edu.cn
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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Editorial: Leszek B.
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