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Chinese chip advances?

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Arthur Hanson

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www.reuters.com

Teardown of Huawei's new phone shows China's chip breakthrough

Huawei Technologies and China's top chipmaker SMIC have built an advanced 7-nanometer processor to power its latest smartphone, according to a teardown report by analysis firm TechInsights.
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It looks like China is mastering 7nm chips, how significant is this advance and will China stop here because of no access to ASML equipment? Will 7nm be the best China can do?
 
Arthur Hanson said:
www.reuters.com

Teardown of Huawei's new phone shows China's chip breakthrough

Huawei Technologies and China's top chipmaker SMIC have built an advanced 7-nanometer processor to power its latest smartphone, according to a teardown report by analysis firm TechInsights.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

It looks like China is mastering 7nm chips, how significant is this advance and will China stop here because of no access to ASML equipment? Will 7nm be the best China can do?
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It probably should be no surprise, only a matter of time. TSMC had done the same years ago. They could very well settle at 7nm for a while.

On the other hand, SMIC had an accelerated skip-node cadence starting at 28nm, going to 14nm, then 7nm. It's likely they are thinking about the 3nm jump to beyond FinFET, having been aware of Samsung's entry in this area.
 
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It probably should be no surprise, only a matter of time. TSMC had done the same years ago. They could very well settle at 7nm for a while.

On the other hand, SMIC had an accelerated skip-node cadence starting at 28nm, going to 14nm, then 7nm. It's likely they are thinking about the 3nm jump to beyond FinFET, having been aware of Samsung's entry in this area.
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hard to believe they can jump to 3nm without EUV.
 
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