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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by axaxs on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:37PM (#20804440)
>are there foundaries in China that can produce the chips necessary while ignoring foreign patents?

Realistically, no. The only two competitive, bleeding edge foundries are TSMC and Samsung.

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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by mappu on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:14PM (#20805016)
SMIC are now rolling out 14nm - that's apparently competitive enough for people to still use Intel CPUs.
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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by deepnotderp on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:43AM (#20806870)
There's a very, very big difference between "rolling out 14nm" with unknown yields, performance, etc. Vs Intel's venerable 14nm process.
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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by axaxs on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:54PM (#20805272)
Intel is Intel, as unhelpful as that statement is. So these guys are starting on 14nm, while others are pushing ahead to 5 and below. Sure it'll work, but I don't find that competitive in an already crowded smartphone market in the next 2 years.
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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by AFascistWorld on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:52AM (#20806429)
They've been rolling it out since 2016, better wait until their product actually appears.
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