Huawei's Mate 60 Pro unexpectedly launched in 2023 featuring the Kirin 9000S chip, surprisingly circumventing US sanctions. HiSilicon, Huawei's silicon arm, encompasses its mobile,…
Jensen Huang's presence in Beijing coincided with the U.S. Commerce Department's lifting of a chip ban, allowing Nvidia and AMD to resume shipments to…
SMIC 5nm means leading-edge logic on DUV at punishing cost, driven by China's need to build Huawei's Ascend AI chips after the US banned…
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.…
The Xiaomi 12S Ultra features a groundbreaking one-inch Sony IMX989 sensor and a partnership with Leica, enhancing its camera capabilities. This approach aims to…
The saga of France's 5G rollout was characterized by prolonged debates over spectrum auctions and frustation, while neighboring countries advanced. Delays stemmed from political…
Recent information shows that Huawei has withdrawn all five opposition applications from European Patent Office that filled against OPPO. However, both company hasn’t commented…
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
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…
On January 14 the US Department of Defense added Xiaomi to its list of “Communist Chinese Military Companies,” and within a day it became…
Xiaomi shipped 46.5 million phones in a quarter, growing 45% year over year, becoming the third-largest smartphone maker due to US sanctions on Huawei.…
SMIC 14nm was China's first homegrown FinFET, architected by Liang Mong Song and built for Huawei, proving SMIC could do leading-edge engineering at last.
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…
AT&T and China Mobile just co-founded the same alliance. The xRAN Forum and the C-RAN Alliance are merging into the O-RAN Alliance, and the…
One maker's tech digest, weekly. Chips, AI, gaming, EVs — no spam.