SMIC will eventually shift from mass producing 7nm chips to 5nm ones, with an earlier report stating that China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer has set up production lines to cater to Huawei. Unfortunately, it will be a costly endeavor for the chip maker, seeing as how one estimate claims that producing 5nm chips could be up to 50 percent more expensive than what it costs TSMC, and there is also a yield problem, which we will discuss here. In addition to high production costs, SMIC’s 5nm yield is said to be just one-third of TSMC’s, making the transition to advanced chips […]
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