• peterj74@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Clickbait. The cpu is 7 nm, 5 years behind. They keep saying that it’s shouldn’t be possible like they made the holy grail.

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      1 year ago

      Intel is still on 7nm. Samsung’s 5nm is basically 7nm+. The fact that SMIC can do 7nm without EUV is insanely impressive.

      Intel took years and years of delays to achieve the same thing.

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      1 year ago

      5 year behind in a tech is far far better than being under control of a foreign country to access said tech.

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          It’s not really. Them achieving 7nm has indeed been a surprise considering the 14nm equipment restrictions.

          “The finding comes as the United States scrambles to figure out how Chinese telecoms giant Huawei was able to produce an advanced 7 nanometer chip to power its Mate 60 Pro smartphone at China’s top chipmaker SMIC, despite the export curbs announced last year.” Reuters

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      It really is super impressive though. There are only a handful of fabs internationally and I think all of them outside of China use machinery made from 1 company only for advanced processes.