China close to shipping 5 nm chips, despite Western curbs
arstechnica.com
SMIC is facing lower yields as it makes 5 nm chips for Huawei smartphones.
  • companero [he/him]22•5 months ago

    biaoqing-copium The chips are stolen and rebranded

    biaoqing-copium Sure they achieved 7nm but they can't make them in high yields

    biaoqing-copium They will never reach 5nm without superior Aryan equipment

    Will be extremely funny to see the live Westoid reaction when China inevitably surpasses them.

    • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]13•5 months ago

      “It’s not really 1nm, it’s just a marketing term!”

      I guarantee you that’s the line when they surpass the West.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]12•5 months ago

      Its going to be crazy when they're exporting 3nm and 2nm chips while we spend $10B on a new Intel Foundry doing that Titanium 7nm old ass crap built directly into the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

  • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml17•5 months ago

    I feel like if the West is reporting it, it's not 'close to'-- it's either 'tomorrow' or it's 'already being shipped'.

  • blashork [she/her]7•5 months ago

    I genuinely believe that china have all of the secrets of silicon manufacturing already taken from basically every company that does it. Like, I think that the civilian science and tech sector are made to research and manufacture the technology themselves so that they have plenty of scientists and engineers familiar with furthering the technology. But if real actual global war started tomorrow, their security state can just pull out a folder labeled 'all TSMC research' and build completely equivalent foundries in a month.

    Anyways praying to god I can get a chinese gpu when they launch fully cause those ar .definitely going to fuck.