Re:Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips
by harpratap on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:56PM
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Have you looked at Kirin 990? It beats Exynos 990, a design team who started working on mobile chips even before Apple. Their 5G chips are undeniably superior to anything on the market and by a huge margin.
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Re:Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips
by ashtonkem on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:11PM
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This is actually an excellent example of what I’m talking about. The Kirin 990 might be great, but it’s actually manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan. China can design chips, but they currently can’t make them.
Re:Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips
by harpratap on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:23PM
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True, but that wasn't the point of my argument. The point is you can actually throw money at a problem and get it to work. There are 4 big ARM chip designers in the world right now - Qualcomm & Apple in the West and Samsung & Huawei in the East. Both Samsung and Huawei have reached this stage by being pumped with lot of cash and backing by their government in the past. So this model has proven that it works.