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"Minatake Mitchell Kashio, the CEO of Tokyo-based electronics research firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, shared with the South China Morning Post his belief that the Kirin 9000s CPU was manufactured using SMIC’s 14-nm process, as determined through their own analysis of handset teardowns. He suggested that certain special techniques were incorporated to enhance the chip’s performance, bringing it closer to the level of a 7-nm grade processor."
I have never heard of Fomalhaut Techno Solutions but I trust Scotten Jones and TechInsights 100%:
"N+2 is an incremental improvement over N+1 moving from a borderline 7nm process to a solid 7nm process. This process is still within the limits of what optical double patterning can achieve and even has some room for additional shrinks."
Up until last December I was president and owner of IC Knowledge LLC, at the end of November, I sold IC Knowledge LLC to TechInsights. It has been interesting to become an insider at the world’s leading semiconductor reverse engineering and knowledge company. The latest SMIC N+2 analysis is an...
"Minatake Mitchell Kashio, the CEO of Tokyo-based electronics research firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, shared with the South China Morning Post his belief that the Kirin 9000s CPU was manufactured using SMIC’s 14-nm process, as determined through their own analysis of handset teardowns. He suggested that certain special techniques were incorporated to enhance the chip’s performance, bringing it closer to the level of a 7-nm grade processor."
