Huawei reportedly manages over 10 chip manufacturing plants

A new report says Huawei has been managing more than 10 chip manufacturing plants in China for a long while. The company also has fabs related to research and development centers that further increase the current digit.

TheElec reports that Huawei has 11 semiconductor fabs in China related to DRAM and other chipset foundries. On the flip side, fabs related to R&D take this figure to 20.

Semiconductor fab or fabrication facility refers to specialized manufacturing plans where tech vendors produce integrated circuits, chips, and related components.

Inputs reveal that over 10 Huawei-operated chip manufacturing plants are used to develop memory chips and logic processors for IoT and phones. A few of these facilities act as foundries, contract production, chip production lines, and more.

These chip plants can eventually make Huawei a growing chipset company that can design and produce processors. The names and locations of these plants are:

• Qingdao Si’En – Qingdao
• DGGMT (phone chips) – Dongguan
• PST (phone chips), PXW (biggest capacity), SWX (DRAM chips), PJHT – Shenzhen
• JHICC – Fujian

It can be difficult to believe the report as the names of these plants differ from Huawei. Although TheElec found that Huawei itself chose different names for its subsidiaries to avoid US scrutiny, and hence, made them look unrelated.

Companies like PST (formerly PXX) used to change their name as per the ownership upgrade. Together, these firms show how big Huawei’s chip ecosystem is in China.

Five of these companies can produce 7nm chips and are working on advanced nodes. Meanwhile, Si’En, DGGMT, PST, PXW, and SWX are already developing 7nm and below chips.

Further, the Chinese government helps these companies run and owns shares of these firms. For instance, Si’En comes under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) of Qingdao.

Even though these firms are being supported by the Chinese government, Huawei is the one to operate them. The chip plant staff have also allegedly confirmed this news.

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