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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by magicsmoke on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:06AM (#23189066)
As a bit more context, Huawei recently announced they'll be sending orders for 14nm chips to SMIC's new fab instead of TSMC. 14 nm is about 3 gens behind TSMC's 5nm and was starting to be produced back in 2013.
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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by bildung on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:34AM (#23190105)
To add to that, the Kirin 710A that will get produced by SMIC will presumably be very similar to the Kirin 710 from 2018, produced by TSMC with its 16nm/12nm process, so performance-wise this will probably be the same chip but from a different foundry - in mainland China.
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