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,…
The article discusses the challenges faced by Chinese CPU companies due to reliance on foreign technology and sanctions. It outlines five key players navigating…
In 2005, SMIC, China’s semiconductor champion, faced a dramatic journey, building advanced fabs with foreign technology while accumulating losses. Despite early successes and optimism…
The ASML lithography monopoly is the most complete chokepoint in tech. High-NA in fabs, Hyper-NA ahead, China capped, one company holding it all up.…
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.…
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…
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.
SMIC 28nm reached volume in 2015, four years late after a long yield struggle, just as the leading edge moved to FinFET and left…
SMIC 45nm was the company's most current node yet, reached two years behind the leaders, the year after SMIC turned its first profit since…
SMIC 65nm arrived in November 2009, the week TSMC won its trade-secret case, took a stake of up to 10 percent, and founder Richard…
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
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