Huawei's 5nm Kirin 9006C is manufactured by TSMC after all
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- Anonymous
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- 06 Jan 2024
Who would have guessed a state funded corporation from China lies about everything? That has got to be a first?
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- Darth Caesium
- dUQ
- 06 Jan 2024
Not surprised. While something that is equivalent to TSMC N5 *can* be theoretically done using DUV, the yield rates would be terrible. Now, I do expect real Chinese 5nm nodes in the future that use DUV, because it is inevitable for it to happen (after all, the Chinese government will just throw more money at the problem to get acceptable production capacity even with the terrible rates), but it was a little bit suspicious that SMIC immediately had a node equivalent to TSMC N5 ready alongside their node equivalent to TSMC N7 (DUV 7nm, N7+ uses EUV instead).
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- AnonD-641645
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- 06 Jan 2024
Why is Huawei using TSMC-made Kirin chips? Because they can
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- Zero
- L8U
- 06 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 06 Jan 20249000s too, it is old 9000 with core names changed at softwa... moreActually 9000S is a new chip, but the production rate is very low and is on SD888 level. Kirin 9000 just reach SD 865 levels.
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- Anonymous
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- 06 Jan 2024
9000s too, it is old 9000 with core names changed at software level.
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- George399
- 3YE
- 06 Jan 2024
Mills, 06 Jan 20245nm vs 4nm is not that big of a jump to be honest. Same 4nm to 3nm
- Ouifuf
- dSV
- 06 Jan 2024
Laptops don't sell as well or as often as phones so huawei probably are trying to clear old stock. Confident SMIC will find a way around it.
