SMIC would start the production of its own chips under its own lithography at the end of the year

The Chinese company SMIC will start the production of chips under the 14nm FinFET lithography at the end of the year, which it expects to be in great demand.

Currently one of the most emerging countries in the technological world is China. It is one of the most important gamer markets today and they are putting the batteries in different technological fields. SMIC, one of China's largest semiconductor manufacturers, will begin production of 14nm FinFET chips by the end of the year. It will be the first Chinese company to manufacture under FinFET, which is a breakthrough.

This step is important for China as it reduces dependency on American tech companies. Trade relations between China and the United States are very tense. The United States has imposed tariffs on Chinese imports, which is putting American industry in trouble.

SMIC, a Chinese company, will start production of 14nm FinFET chips at the end of the year

The Chinese company says that the 14nm FinFET has been developed in-house, allowing to increase the density of transistors, the performance and reduce the consumption with respect to the 28nm chips that they currently manufacture. Theoretically the company should have started making them at 14nm in the middle of this year. The company has a delay in starting the manufacturing process.

Using the FinFET process is a breakthrough for a company that is relatively small in the foundry world. SMIC expects this new lithographic process to represent a large amount of revenue by the end of this year.

Currently SMIC has two 300mm HVM factories based on the 28nm to 65mm nodes that generate 40-50% of the company's revenue. The impact of 14nm is unknown, but it should be important.

It should be noted that construction of the $ 10 billion SMIC South FinFET Fab was completed at the beginning of the year. This gutter with cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and has already started operating. Your next step will be to make the leap to 000nm lithography.

For the future they hope to start the 10nm and 7nm manufacturing processes. This last process would require extreme ultraviolet lithography tools. For this SMIC has recently acquired a scanning system and an EUV recorder from ASML for 120 million dollars that will be delivered this year.

Source: Anandtech