Denial of internal circulation Officials set the tone for TSMC’s Nanjing expansion battle

TSMC, a leading foundry, has approved a budget of $2.887 billion to expand its 28nm mature process capacity at its Nanjing plant in China, sparking a “civil war” in China. The Xinhua Daily Telegraph, a subsidiary of China’s official media Xinhua News Agency, recently published an article entitled “There is no quick fix “core” pill”, which sets the tone for TSMC’s Nanjing plant expansion controversy. The article said that the chip is the crown jewel of the manufacturing industry, only emphasizing the one-sided idea of internal circulation, which is not conducive to the long-term development of the chip industry, artificially “build a wall to decouple” against the rules of the market, to the detriment of others.

After TSMC released its Nanjing plant expansion, Chinese communications analyst Xiang Ligang raised objections on Weibo for several days, calling his family members “brainwashed bitches” and directly confronting Chinese netizens and experts, even the Chinese technology media “Core Intelligence” came out to beat Xiang Ligang for being ignorant and making jokes.

After days of keyboard war of words, the old Communist Party stepped in to set the tone, issuing a commentary entitled “There is no quick-acting “core” pill in the world” through Xinhua Daily Telegraph, a subsidiary of Xinhua News Agency, to set the tone for TSMC’s Nanjing plant expansion controversy.

The article pointed out that in the face of the trade dispute initiated by the United States, modern industries such as automobiles and cell phones have been suffering from the pain of “lack of core” time and again. However, there is no quick-relief “core” pill in the world, only emphasizing the one-sided idea of internal circulation, and the exaggeration of leading at every turn, are not conducive to the long-term development of the chip industry.

It is frankly stated in the article that some problems in China’s chip industry must be faced squarely, including the readiness to promote “two years to replace”, “three years than” type slogans, there are many major chip manufacturing projects “rotten shutdown “, coupled with various types of self media “shock body”, “scared body” rampant, it is easy to lead to the loss of self-confidence.

According to the article, the chip is the crown jewel of the manufacturing industry, in the era of globalization, openness and integration is an unstoppable trend, artificially “build a wall to decouple” has to go against the market rules, to the detriment of others.

The article emphasizes that China’s core should be integrated with the international industrial chain, you have me, I have you, not who wants to get rid of it. Chinese industry needs to strengthen cooperation with relevant countries and regions to promote the upgrading of the supply capacity of the whole chip industry chain.