Chinese mock US sanctions after large Chinese chip manufacturer achieves major performance and manufacturing breakthrough::US sanctions and unintended consequences – China mocks sanctions as Huawei technology looks stronger than ever.
Wow they made a 7 nm chip when everyone else is already at 5 nm and its physically impossible to get smaller because of quantum tunneling…
Mock my ass.
You may want to read again what it even is…
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They didn’t develop the machines needed to produce the chips, yet. They bought the lithography machines from the only producer - dutch ASML, but that’s now cut off. The news is kinda overblown.
7nm node is a marketing term and non-Chinese companies have been making this chip generation since 2016.
Samsung and TSMC have been making 5nm generation chips for almost three years now.
So yes, there may be a technological/sanctions aspect to China having homegrown 7nm production but:
They are still years behind the rest of the world, it’s unclear how good these 7nm chips actually are, it’s unclear what their volume is, or their ability to improve further.
