After the United States revised the rules, domestic manufacturers such as Huawei began to change their development thinking. In Yu Chengdong's words, Huawei only entered the field of chip RD and design, and did not enter the field of chip manufacturing with heavy assets. This is a mistake.
Therefore, as early as the second half of 2020, Huawei announced that it has fully entered the field of chip semiconductors, and it will also break through technical bottlenecks in new materials and terminal manufacturing. There is even news that Huawei will build its own chip production line.
We all know that if you want to build your own chip production line, you must have a lithography machine, because a lithography machine is a necessary equipment for manufacturing chips.
In the field of lithography machine, ASML technology is the most advanced, especially EUV lithography machine. Currently only ASML can develop and manufacture, but EUV lithography machine is in short supply because it is a necessary equipment for manufacturing chips below 7nm.
Moreover, due to the United States, EUV lithography machines cannot be delivered to domestic manufacturers for the time being, and even DUV lithography machines are limited to specific manufacturers.
Under such circumstances, it is reported that Huawei has begun recruiting semiconductor equipment engineers and intends to develop lithography machine technology.
In addition, Huawei Ren Zhengfei also visited domestic colleges and universities and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then the Chinese Academy of Sciences officially stated that it made lithography machine technology a priority technical problem.
Although there is a lot of news, there is still no accurate news about Huawei's entry into the field of lithography machines. But it's different now, because a new piece of news officially came, and the situation is like this.
Everyone knows that Huawei has a Hubble investment company that mainly invests in chip-related companies. On June 5, Hubble Investment formally became a shareholder of Keyi Hongyuan Company, which is controlled by the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to the data, the registered capital of Keyi Hongyuan Company has increased from 120 million yuan to 202 million yuan, and the main investor is also Hubble Investment under Huawei, which accounts for 4.76 percent of the shares and becomes the seventh largest shareholder.
This means that Huawei has officially entered the field of lithography machines, and Huawei's participation in the development of lithography machines will naturally be a real hammer.
Of course, the reason why Huawei invested in Keyi Hongyuan Company is because the core technology of the lithography machine is the light source, and Keyi Hongyuan Company is the first domestic and third-largest 193nm ArF excimer laser company in the world.
In addition, Huawei's investment in Keyi Hongyuan is naturally to accelerate the progress of light source technology. After all, if Shanghai Microelectronics wants to develop and produce DUV and EUV lithography machines, it also needs the advanced light source technology of Keyi Hongyuan.
