China-made Chips

In a redesigned official website, Chinese CPU maker Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor talked for the first time about its plans to launch stand alone GPU products.

Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor, a Chinese CPU manufacturer with its name roughly translates to 'million core,' said its website (www. zhaoxin.com) was completely redesigned on July 7.

In the second quarter of this year, TSMC held 51.5% of the global foundry market share, topping the list, according to TrendForce.

SMIC's current projects do not require EUV lithography at the moment, said Zhou Zixue, Chairman of China's biggest foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).

The initial public offering price of China's biggest foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), is set at RMB 27.46 and the scale of fund raising will exceed RMB 50 billion if an over-allotment option is exercised.

After the KX-6000 series x86 processor entered the "Shanghai Design 100+" list, China-made Zhaoxin CPU has recently been added to the global "Silicon 100" list for 2020.

OPPO launches "Mariana Plan" to develop its own mobile phone chips, tentatively named OPPO M1.

ZTE shares opened 8.5% percent in Hong Kong after issuing a clarification on Saturday that recent media reports claiming its 7nm chip has realized mass production and 5nm chip has started technology importing was misinterpreted.

The listing committee of China's Sci-Tech innovation board (STAR Market) on Friday approved the IPO application of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the biggest chipmaker on the Chinese mainland.

The second phase of China's national memory base project started contruction yesterday in Wuhan, with a planned capacity of 200,000 wafers per month.