As far as any of us know, Mainland China has no EUV capability, so challenging fabrication companies like TSMC and Samsung at their absolute bleeding edge isn’t really possible for now. This likely represents close to the limit of what SMIC can do with just DUV machines, but as OP said, it’s a testament to the fact that the US is not capable of cutting off their access to high-end semiconductors. Eventually, probably sooner than we expect, they’ll also close the gap on lithography. It really is just a matter of time.
Can anybody summarize it? Chinese is developing challenging chipsets despite all possible bans?
Basically yeah, China managed to produce domestic 7nm chips in commercial volumes and people thought it would take much longer for that to happen.
The fact that they’ve gone from not having 7nm at all to already being in mass production in a phone in this amount of time is unreal.
Indeed, this blows apart any notion that the west could hold China back technologically.
As far as any of us know, Mainland China has no EUV capability, so challenging fabrication companies like TSMC and Samsung at their absolute bleeding edge isn’t really possible for now. This likely represents close to the limit of what SMIC can do with just DUV machines, but as OP said, it’s a testament to the fact that the US is not capable of cutting off their access to high-end semiconductors. Eventually, probably sooner than we expect, they’ll also close the gap on lithography. It really is just a matter of time.
Thanks for the hints! https://g.co/bard/share/c787828e404e