The U.S. Department of Commerce stated on the 16th U.S. time that U.S. companies are prohibited from conducting any business with ZTE within seven years, including sales of spare parts, commodities, software, and technology.
This is the second time since ZTE’s highest fine of 1.19 billion U.S. dollars was imposed in March 2017. ZTE has established a crisis response team to analyze and formulate countermeasures in all fields and go all out to face the crisis.
China’s Ministry of Commerce said on the 19th that China will pay close attention to the development of the situation and stand ready to take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.
The 'embargo', if not reached, will have a certain impact on ZTE's products and sales. Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of China Mobile, told China News Service, ZTE could not purchase some important elements from the United States if the ban was implemented. Devices.
In recent years, China's integrated circuit industry has developed rapidly and made series progress. However, it should be noted that there is still a gap between China's chip industry and advanced level. High-end chips need to be imported. China imports more than 200 billion US dollars of integrated circuits each year.
Electronic Innovation Network CEO Zhang Guobin told the China News Service reporter that China's chip industry has made great progress in the design process, but manufacturing, packaging is still relatively weak; the manufacturing process also need to catch up with the world's advanced level of 7-nm technology as soon as possible.
At present, all countries in the world use integrated circuits as the core area of strategic deployment. The United States regards it as the first of the four major technological fields that fundamentally transforms manufacturing in the next 20 years. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released the 'Electronic Revival Plan'. Layout of Advanced Semiconductor Technology. South Korea regards Smart Semiconductor as one of the key areas of the 'Future Growth Plan'.
The ZTE incident made people see technical barriers, but it also stimulated China's confidence in self-reliance and mastering core technologies.
China’s official media “People’s Daily” stated: “It is foreseeable that from now on, China will increase investment in the chip industry at any cost, and the whole industry will usher in historic opportunities.
Luo Wen, Vice Minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said last week that China will promote the construction of major projects and key product development, promote the integration of high-end general-purpose chips such as CPUs and FPGAs, and continuously improve the supply capability of high-end chips; build advanced manufacturing processes. , Smart Sensors and other national innovation centers; Accelerate the establishment of the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund II.
Zhao Weiguo, chairman of Ziguang Group, said at the 6th Electronic Information Expo last week that Ziguang Group will invest 100 billion US dollars in integrated circuit manufacturing in the next 10 years.
In recent years, capital has also poured into the chip industry. According to statistics, the scale of industrial funds set up by the semiconductor industry enterprises has accumulated over 500 billion yuan.