Indeed, and the reality is that older chips work just fine for most applications. The main advantage of newer chips is in lower heat and power consumption which primarily matters for mobile devices. SMIC just announced that they can already produce 7nm that Huawei announced they’re going to use, so it looks like China is able to produce small batches of high end domestic chips for this niche use case now.
Indeed, and the reality is that older chips work just fine for most applications. The main advantage of newer chips is in lower heat and power consumption which primarily matters for mobile devices. SMIC just announced that they can already produce 7nm that Huawei announced they’re going to use, so it looks like China is able to produce small batches of high end domestic chips for this niche use case now.