China admits local semiconductor industry can't match world class reliability
(2023/07/05)
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China wants its manufacturers to become more reliable, after finding that three key sectors – machinery, electronics, and automobiles – aren't at levels that match global standards of excellence.
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The nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday published an [2]interpretation and implementation guide for recently released "Opinions on Manufacturing Reliability Improvement."
The guide opens with the observation that Chinese manufacturing has made significant progress, but "there is still a gap between the reliability of my country's manufacturing industry and the advanced level of foreign countries."
"Advanced semiconductor materials, and automotive-grade automotive chips" are named as fields in which Chinese firms don't operate at levels matching the best the world has to offer.
Some of the gap is caused by Chinese authorities and managers not being up to speed on how to monitor and manage quality processes.
[3]China chokes exports of semiconductor secret sauces gallium and germanium
[4]US authorities warn on China's new counter-espionage law
[5]US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China
[6]Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR
Beijing wants those gaps bridged – quickly – so that China moves from middling sophistication to high-end work.
To get there, China wants consideration of tech elements such as human-computer interaction, and the software used by manufacturers. Authorities always want products to be more reliable in all phases of their lifecycles – even unto eventual disposal.
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By 2025, the Ministry has vowed to run 100 demonstrations of how to improve reliability, and for at least 1,000 enterprises to have shown tangible results. A second phase of action, due to end in 2030, should see China fully adopt reliability standards across ten key products.
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Administrators are also expected to be ready to enforce reliability standards by 2030.
Electronics was chosen as a target industry due to its vital role providing components to others, and also because Beijing feels it is sufficiently mature to respond to a call for improved reliability. The automotive industry was named due to the importance of transport and the obvious negative impacts that flow from sub-optimal products. Machinery was nominated as it's an enormous and important industry that China thinks needs to reach an improved level of operation.
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News that China thinks its semiconductor sector trails global reliability standards will be welcomed in Washington and other nations that have sanctioned the Middle Kingdom in the hope of slowing its development of such goods. Those who see China as a key supplier of other goods may wonder what they've been paying for. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/chinese_spy_balloon_crammed_with/
[2] https://www.miit.gov.cn/zwgk/zcjd/art/2023/art_b15d5590b57947cc89a0bc763a911968.html
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/china_semiconductor_export_restrictions/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/china_espionage_law_update_warning/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/ai_chip_tighten_us_export_ban/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/27/japan_jsr_acquisition/
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Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware [1]READ MORE
The nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday published an [2]interpretation and implementation guide for recently released "Opinions on Manufacturing Reliability Improvement."
The guide opens with the observation that Chinese manufacturing has made significant progress, but "there is still a gap between the reliability of my country's manufacturing industry and the advanced level of foreign countries."
"Advanced semiconductor materials, and automotive-grade automotive chips" are named as fields in which Chinese firms don't operate at levels matching the best the world has to offer.
Some of the gap is caused by Chinese authorities and managers not being up to speed on how to monitor and manage quality processes.
[3]China chokes exports of semiconductor secret sauces gallium and germanium
[4]US authorities warn on China's new counter-espionage law
[5]US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China
[6]Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR
Beijing wants those gaps bridged – quickly – so that China moves from middling sophistication to high-end work.
To get there, China wants consideration of tech elements such as human-computer interaction, and the software used by manufacturers. Authorities always want products to be more reliable in all phases of their lifecycles – even unto eventual disposal.
[7]
By 2025, the Ministry has vowed to run 100 demonstrations of how to improve reliability, and for at least 1,000 enterprises to have shown tangible results. A second phase of action, due to end in 2030, should see China fully adopt reliability standards across ten key products.
[8]
Administrators are also expected to be ready to enforce reliability standards by 2030.
Electronics was chosen as a target industry due to its vital role providing components to others, and also because Beijing feels it is sufficiently mature to respond to a call for improved reliability. The automotive industry was named due to the importance of transport and the obvious negative impacts that flow from sub-optimal products. Machinery was nominated as it's an enormous and important industry that China thinks needs to reach an improved level of operation.
[9]
News that China thinks its semiconductor sector trails global reliability standards will be welcomed in Washington and other nations that have sanctioned the Middle Kingdom in the hope of slowing its development of such goods. Those who see China as a key supplier of other goods may wonder what they've been paying for. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/chinese_spy_balloon_crammed_with/
[2] https://www.miit.gov.cn/zwgk/zcjd/art/2023/art_b15d5590b57947cc89a0bc763a911968.html
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/china_semiconductor_export_restrictions/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/china_espionage_law_update_warning/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/ai_chip_tighten_us_export_ban/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/27/japan_jsr_acquisition/
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Re: Step it up!
Headley_Grange
I think it's more to do with it being easy to copy designs but much harder to copy process and culture. I know what goes into Delia's Victoria sponge and she's given me a high-level view of the process, but the cake I make is nowhere near as good as the one she makes. The cultural side is probably harder to replicate than process - it's not technology that makes Japanese trains run on time, it's the culture of the people who operate them.
Re: Step it up!
ChoHag
China's basic problem is that if you ask them to make cheap tat, they will.
"wonder what they've been paying for"
Pascal Monett
They've been paying for megacorp's quarterly profits.
Step it up!
Since everything they have is stolen from elsewhere (Japan, US, EU, UK, Taiwan, etc) and they're fantastic engineers but incapable of making fundamental breakthroughs (everything socially supports fawning compliance with existing paradigms, and I use that word with full irony), this means they're going to ramp up the IP theft from everywhere else to get themselves up to snuff, and that's what you should expect from this declaration.