Domestic for the Chinese, in other words.
Edition South China Morning Post has been circling the topic of the Chinese semiconductor industry’s projected achievement of relative self-sufficiency in chip production equipment this year for some time now. In a new publication on the topic, it revealed that Chinese enterprises in the industry are accustomed to using up to 70% of their equipment locally produced, although this is not an official requirement.
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In general, as experts note, Chinese suppliers of specialized equipment lag behind their foreign competitors most in several areas: lithography itself, control and measuring equipment, and systems for implanting ions into materials. This can be judged at least by the dynamics of imports of such equipment to China over the past two years. The need to expand local production capacities, combined with fears of new sanctions, are forcing Chinese chip manufacturers to increase imports of equipment that has no domestic analogues.
