Huawei and SMIC quietly rolled out a new Kirin 9000C processor.

Chinese foundry SMIC may have broken the 5nm process barrier, as evidenced by a new Huawei laptop listed with an advanced chip with 5nm manufacturing tech — a feat previously thought impossible due to U.S sanctions.

  • Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    1 year ago

    You're going to be waiting quite a while for a "Linux native CPU", whatever you mean by this. RISC-V is still a long way out from being desktop ready, but progress is slowly happening.