Huawei recently unveiled its Qingyun L540 lineup of notebooks with one hardware specification that would make the U.S. downright nervous; a 5nm chipset called the Kirin 9006C. The existence of this SoC meant that China and its foundries had obtained autonomy to mass produce cutting-edge silicon that would no longer force it to remain tethered to foreign companies. Unfortunately, a recent teardown revealed that SMIC, China’s largest semiconductor firm, is yet to jump into the 5nm space because the Kirin 9006C was actually found to be made by TSMC. Latest revelation shows SMIC is not yet ready to pursue 5nm chip […]
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