Elektroniikan suunnittelijat ovat usein haluttomia harkitsemaan sovelluskohtaisesti räätälöityjä liitäntäratkaisuja ennen kuin on selvää, ettei muita vaihtoehtoja juuri ole. Tämä johtuu suurelta osin yleisestä näkemyksestä, että sovelluskohteeseen räätälöidyt liittimet ovat kalliita ja että kustomointi tuo projektiin kohtuuttomia viiveitä. Lisäksi usein katsotaan, että vain yhteen valmistajaan luottaminen on riskialtista. Näillä kolmella yleisellä käsityksellä on vain vähän tai ei lainkaan todellista perustaa, vakuuttaa liitinvalmistaja Nicomaticin Phil McDavitt.

TSMC sees multi-year growth ahead, to boost chip spending in 2022
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-q4-profit-rises-164-record-beats-market-forecasts-2022-01-13/

Canalys: Worldwide PC shipments soared in 2021 to 341 million units
Ron Miller@ron_miller / 6:40 PM GMT+2•January 12, 2022
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/canalys-worldwide-pc-shipments-soared-in-2021-to-341-million-units/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA-HY2zkacdZpou-xuqqT66xHFHGddsW7f_jAtFGtYlZo1r4DERRM_iIVprDaL8qaIkiAcwtKM9sgRSb15YVt9OELsQcKrqa7N0eus8BDFQSA5Y2Dcijz2DS-1g6N9I8ycxpXLV9brc4rc84GDFUHENE7SpX4PJT7tXeGmSOupPP

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-10/tsmc-sales-set-sixth-quarterly-record-on-elevated-chip-demand

Huawei Pours Money Into China’s Chipmaking Ambitions
Tech giant operates an investment fund that is trying to build up China’s semiconductor industry as U.S. bans weigh on company
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hungry-for-chips-huawei-invests-in-chinese-companies-that-make-them-11641819638?mod=djemalertNEWS

Blocked by the U.S. from buying many of the chips it needs, Huawei Technologies Co. is stepping up investments in companies that are racing to build China’s semiconductor supply chain.

The Chinese technology giant is investing in the companies through a fund that it launched in 2019, around the time Washington began putting export bans on Huawei. The fund, Hubble Technology Investment Co., has backed 56 companies since its founding, according to data compiled by PitchBook, a capital markets research firm.

Almost half of those investments have been made in the past six months, according to PitchBook, as the pain from restrictions on the company’s ability to obtain critical chips made using U.S. technology grows. Last month, Huawei said U.S. restrictions pushed its 2021 revenue down by nearly a third.

The overwhelming majority of the companies invested in by Hubble are involved in the semiconductor supply chain, according to PitchBook and corporate records. They include emerging players in the manufacturing and design of chips, as well as companies that make semiconductor materials, design software and chip manufacturing equipment.

Two Chinese Startups Tried to Catch Up to Makers of Advanced Computer Chips—and Failed
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-chinese-startups-tried-to-catch-up-to-makers-of-advanced-computer-chipsand-failed-11641724382?mod=djemalertNEWS

Foundries with ties to a little-known Chinese entrepreneur set out to match TSMC and Samsung, but never commercially produced an advanced semiconductor

China has spent billions of dollars in recent years trying to catch up to the world’s most advanced semiconductor makers.

Two foundry projects, led in part by a little-known entrepreneur then in his 30s, help show why China has yet to succeed.

The projects, in the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Jinan, were supposed to churn out semiconductors nearly as complex as the more-sophisticated chips made by industry leaders Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. , which have decades of chip-building experience.

Chinese officials kicked in hundreds of millions of dollars to support the upstarts. But it quickly became clear the plans had been too ambitious, and local officials had underestimated how difficult—and costly—it is to make complex high-end chips.

The two foundries, Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. and Quanxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Jinan) Co., burned through cash, yet never commercially built any chips.

HSMC formally shut down in June 2021. QXIC still exists but has suspended operations, and didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Over the past three years, at least six new major chip-building projects, including HSMC and QXIC, have failed in China, according to company statements, state media, local government documents and Tianyancha, a corporate registration database. At least $2.3 billion went into these projects, much of it coming from governments, the documents showed. Some never produced a single chip.