Highlights of the day: HiSilicon offers 14nm chip orders to SMIC
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Both SMIC and HiSilicon play main roles in China’s marketing campaign to boost the nation’s IC self-sufficiency although TMSC has been the foremost foundry companion for Huawei’s chipmaking arm. Now HiSilicon is giving its 14nm chip orders to SMIC, a sign of the Chinese foundry’s improved competitiveness. But the Chinese chip vendor nonetheless depends closely on Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem for superior processes, because it offers extra emphasis on 5nm chips for 5G base stations amid weak demand for handset purposes. Handset PCB suppliers have additionally reported low visibility past May.
HiSilicon locations 14nm chip orders with SMIC: China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) with its 14nm FinFET course of manufacturing has obtained orders from HiSilicon, in line with business sources.
HiSilicon to ramp up 5nm chip orders with backend homes in 3Q20: Taiwan-based backend homes together with King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) will see orders for HiSilicon’s 5nm chips for 5G base stations ramp up considerably within the third quarter of 2020 as Huawei’s chipmaking arm could modify its product portfolios for 5nm chips to cowl extra infrastructure purposes, in line with business sources.
Handset PCB corporations see restricted order visibility past May: Handset PCB specialists’ order visibility has prolonged solely to May, and are nonetheless not sure about their total gross sales outcomes for second-quarter 2020 as orders for June are but to be finalized, in line with business sources.
