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Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San... by bArray on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:20PM (#37383942)
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...

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Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San... by nneonneo on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:47PM (#37384222)
They seem to have confirmed it: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7n...
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Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San... by fspeech on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:21PM (#37384596)
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.
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Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San... by bArray on Monday September 04, 2023 @05:19PM (#37385184)
Than you for the update. I will be keeping an eye on this for further developments.
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Re:Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US San... by DiogenesKynikos on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:49PM (#37386308)
The article that this entire thread is about says they've confirmed it.
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