CHIPS & AI
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09/05/2023
SMIC 7nm: The Mate 60 Shock
SMIC 7nm shipped in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000S, a DUV-built chip that proved export controls could not cap China at 14nm.…
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CHIPS & AI
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04/20/2021
SMIC N+1: A 7nm-Class Node Behind a Closed Door
SMIC N+1 is a 7nm-class node built without EUV, after the 2020 Entity List cut SMIC off from the one machine the industry uses…
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CHIPS & AI
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10/15/2019
TSMC’s N7+ Node: EUV Finally Ships, Inside a Huawei Chip
TSMC's N7+ brought 7nm EUV into volume for the first time, ironically inside a Huawei chip, proving extreme ultraviolet in production ahead of full…
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CHIPS & AI
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08/07/2019
Samsung 7nm EUV: Betting Early on Extreme Ultraviolet
Samsung 7nm EUV produced the Exynos 9825, the first commercial chip built with extreme ultraviolet lithography, as Samsung raced TSMC into the EUV era.
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CHIPS & AI
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09/18/2018
TSMC’s 7nm Node: The A12, AMD’s Bet, and a Field of Two
TSMC's 7nm node shipped the first 7nm chip in the A12, anchored AMD's comeback against Intel, and watched GlobalFoundries quit the leading edge, leaving…
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