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Hua Hong Semiconductor, China's second-largest chip foundry, has made strategic leadership changes to prioritize logic chip production and develop more advanced process technologies. The company hired Bai Peng, a veteran in logic chip technology, and appointed him president on January 1, 2024, reports Nikkei.
Bai Peng, who spent over three decades at Intel and led logic chip development from research to mass production, is expected to steer Hua Hong's shift toward advanced semiconductor production technologies. Hua Hong are one of China's few foundries to offer 40nm fabrication process along with SMIC. While 40nm is a fairly sophisticated technology, it cannot enable modern processors for AI, HPC, and client computing applications. The task for Bai Peng will be to advance Hua Hong's manufacturing processes. The report says that Bai's expertise aligns with the company's focus to develop fabrication nodes essential for AI and other high-end applications.
Hua Hong has historically focused on power semiconductors, analog chips, and embedded memory products, with most of its offerings at 100nm or larger. Hua Hong's financial performance has declined since its 2022 peak due to falling legacy chip prices, which are particularly vulnerable to market fluctuations. As a result, declining prices has pushed the company to diversify into logic chips, a market currently dominated by a few Chinese companies, including SMIC.
To expand its production capabilities, Hua Hong acquired a former GlobalFoundries facility in Chengdu, China, in 2023 and began operations in 2024. Additionally, a new plant in Wuxi is now producing chips of 40nm and above. These expansions aim to position Hua Hong as a key player in both legacy and advanced chip markets.
[...] These appointments have fueled speculation about a potential collaboration between Hua Hong and SMIC, China's largest and most advanced foundry. Such a partnership could bolster China's efforts to build a self-reliant semiconductor ecosystem, reducing dependency on foreign supply chains.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28, @05:48PM (6 children)
or start leaning Manadrin for reading data sheets for future ICs
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28, @06:32PM
Leaning toward spelling would be a start. Or are you eschewing English already?
small grin?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28, @06:39PM (4 children)
Okay, but seriously, the Chins are so far ahead of us there's no point. They operate as a cooperative collective, and hell-bent on world domination.And they're doing it, like the turtle vs. hare- by just sticking to it, consistently pushing forward, in huge Borg-like collective.
We inter-compete, to our own downfall. I don't see any way to change Western culture to become a true unified team. Look what politics has done and is doing to us? China doesn't even have to clobber us- we're doing it to ourselves. One side calls the other "divisive", and in so doing, are exactly divisive. This very site is fraught with political bashing, even from some who I used to most highly respect. No unity.
Just find another useful job. Hands-on is where jobs are. Less pay but there are going to be hoards of unemployed EEs in the near future. It's what I'm doing and current employer has literally years of orders for stuff we make.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Frosty Piss on Tuesday January 28, @07:16PM (1 child)
"Chins"? So, not only are you illiterate, you're also a racist asshole? You're in the wrong place, you need to be over at Slashdot.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29, @01:09AM
Actually Slashdot has become a much kinder place, unlike intolerant and unforgiving people here like you.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 29, @12:52AM (1 child)
The obvious rebuttal: where are they heading? I bet they don't know.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29, @01:03AM
World domination. I've worked with several Chinese nationals, in the US on work visas. They had no qualms saying "we will own you one day".
And I'm genuinely sorry if I offended anyone. I was led to believe that "Chin" was a word that Chinese people use to refer to themselves. NO disrespect was ever intended. Too bad for people who are so quickly triggered. I'm hoping for a kinder, more tolerant, and understanding world.