The Emergence of Huawei's Kirin 9000S: A Tectonic Shift in the Global Semiconductor Landscape
The Emergence of Huawei's Kirin 9000S: A Tectonic Shift in the Global Semiconductor Landscape
In late August 2023, Huawei, the global telecommunications powerhouse, made a decisive re-entry into the proprietary smartphone chip market. The launch of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro, powered by the much-anticipated Kirin 9000S, a seven-nanometer class chip, marks a crucial turning point in Huawei's tech...
Article reads like propaganda with far too many superlatives. Terrible
32Tectonic!
9it reads like MSM to you?
-7Durr, you mean LAME stream media, amirite??
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Tectonic shift? 7nm chips are older models, they are not new.
22Yes and no. There were plenty of commentators claiming that US sanctions were a death blow to the Chinese chip industry, who would not be able to go below 10 nm themselves, etc. This was one of the selling points for the sanctions.
8You can find plenty of commentators saying anything in the modern world. That is not evidence of credibility, unless you're in a church or something.
I would challenge anyone to said that to explain how exactly stopping trade would prevent Chinese companies from improving their chips. Is it assumed they are incapable of improvement?
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Exactly, ASML are piloting sub 1nm
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/imec-asml-team-for-pilot-line-for-sub-1nm-development/
6The laptop I'm writing this from uses 10nm technology.
-1Exactly. If some random consumer-grade laptop has a 10nm in it, a competitor being able to make 7nm sometime soon should probably be expected.
5Intel 10nm is comparable to TSMC 7nm.
The numbers sound exact, but they aren't much more than marketing terms nowadays.
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SMIC used ASML lithography machines to produce those chips. Thry can't buy more of them and can't get spare parts. It will be more tectonic when China can produce such lithography machines, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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