Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San...
by bArray on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:20PM
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From what I understand, they have not yet confirmed this [1]:
> TechInsights has received the Huawei Mate 60 Pro in its Ottawa, Canada laboratory. Work has begun to determine if the application processor is indeed SMIC’s latest generation process node – advancing it from its N+1 7nm node found by TechInsights in July 2022 in the MinerVA7 Bitcoin Miner.
From what I can tell, Reddit has also mistakenly jumped the gun too [2].
[1] https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-confirming-sm...
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/168wewl/review_of...
Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San...
by nneonneo on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:47PM
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They seem to have confirmed it: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7n...
Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San...
by fspeech on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:21PM
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Kirin 9000 was TSMC's 5nm process. The new chip is on a presumed 7nm process and is only 2% bigger, which confirms that for finfet processes transistor density is decoupled from claimed feature size.
Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San...
by bArray on Monday September 04, 2023 @05:19PM
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Than you for the update. I will be keeping an eye on this for further developments.
Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San...
by DiogenesKynikos on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:49PM
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The article that this entire thread is about says they've confirmed it.
That's exactly what the article you're commenting on is about. An independent organization in Canada just did a teardown of the new Huawei phone, and verified that it's using a new SoC manufactured by SMIC.