By hmimcu 
In recent days, there has been widespread news online that Huawei has achieved nationwide production of chip EDA tools above 14nm.
After this news came out, netizens were excited and said that Huawei was too powerful. Once again, it will gradually break away from its dependence on American manufacturers in EDA.
Due to the previous EDA market, the three major American manufacturers monopolized over 80% of the global market and at least 90% of the Chinese market share. Nowadays, Huawei’s chip EDA tools above 14nm mean that domestically produced products can completely replace foreign EDA in processes above 14nm. Therefore, this is a real breakthrough in the EDA market.
However, everyone should pay attention to Huawei’s wording, which is that the EDA for chips above 14nm is produced nationwide rather than fully self-developed, which is fundamentally different.
Nationwide production refers to the use of all products from domestic suppliers, which may not necessarily be entirely developed by Huawei. Fully self-developed means that the EDA tool was developed by Huawei itself, which is a completely different concept.
Huawei stated that they are produced nationwide, which means that not all of these EDAs were developed by Huawei, but rather collaborated with domestic manufacturers, which has profound implications behind it.
The first is that Huawei did not want to rely on its own efforts to handle EDA products, but chose to cooperate with excellent domestic manufacturers, which is also Huawei’s consistent style in the past.
After all, Huawei is not omnipotent, not everything is possible, and there is no need to do everything on its own. In the end, everything is in its own hands, without friends or partners, which is actually not good.
Secondly, domestic manufacturers are not that bad either. In the past, many netizens used to think that only Huawei was seriously engaged in research and development, while other manufacturers were unable to do so. They always felt that if Huawei came to work in this industry, it would definitely overturn it.
But this time Huawei told everyone that other manufacturers are also capable, and everyone is striving to develop themselves in their respective industries. They have expertise in their respective industries, and are all excellent enterprises with their own core technologies. Huawei is not the only one capable.
Thirdly, through this matter, Huawei also hopes to have more partners to cooperate and work together to break through various bottlenecks in the industrial chain, and ultimately build a complete and advanced industrial chain. This is the most correct path.
So, Huawei said that this time it is using nationally produced EDA instead of fully self-developed, which actually has a profound meaning behind it. However, some netizens did not understand and always thought that Huawei’s reference to nationally produced EDA is Huawei’s fully self-developed, which is a completely different idea from what Huawei wants to express.
The chip industry chain is very complex, from sand to chips, with hundreds of devices and thousands of processes in between. It is not realistic to rely on one company to complete it, so Huawei must work together with the industry chain to achieve this, which is also what Huawei is doing.