From the Chinese press:
In May this year (2024), Sanan Semiconductor officially revealed that its chairman Lin Zhidong was recently invited to attend the sixth meeting of the China-France Entrepreneurs Committee.
During the meeting, Lin Zhidong introduced the latest progress of Hunan Sanan SiC project - the first phase of Hunan silicon carbide semiconductor industrialization project has been fully put into production, and the annual production capacity of SiC has reached 250,000 pieces (equivalent to 6 inches); the second phase of the project is progressing steadily, and will fully introduce the world's leading 8-inch production equipment and processes, and is scheduled to be put into production in the third quarter of this year . After the entire project reaches full production, it will achieve a total annual production capacity of 480,000 pieces.
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I have posted earlier that Hunan Sanan is seeking engineers with Aixtron experience. It is logical to assume that Aixtron's G10-SiC is in play.
For 480,000 annual capacity, that would be about 50 G10-SiC. However, Hunan Sanann might dual source to LPE which is also qualified as a "World's leading 8-inch production equipment". I don't think any Chinese SiC equipments are qualified as "World leading".
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