China’s 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) will include a 40% expansion in foundry capacity and a move to 7nm processing, says Digitimes Research.

China’s IC manufacturing industry is planned to double to $34.28 billion in 2020 from 2016, and may also move 12nm to production by the end of the year after having volume produced 14nm process.

But China’s IC self-sufficiency rate is still far lower than the goal of 40% set in the 13th five-year plan, and its chip fabrication technology still lags behind international peers by three generations.