This is a photo of the architecture of SMIC’s 7 nm chip. This is making big headlines in Western tech press.
Especially because U.S. pours more billions in its semiconductor industry than China does and that SMIC is slated to get prohibited from buying ASML’s DUV lithography machines. Yet today China’s SMIC is at least 2 generations ahead of Intel 😁
Curious timing though, with the CHIPS act up for a vote. Intel, Micron would have us believe SMIC somehow jumped two nodes so they can get $50B in taxpayer money.
Imagine thinking the people you buy your computers from wouldn’t be able to engineer them too.
“Only whites can engineer stuff, them yaller people just ain’t smart enough” was probably the rationale.
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I certainly will.
So Intel and AMD are going to become obsolete?
Not likely. If China advances too fast in this field the west will simply ban Chinese products from their own internal markets. Intel and AMD will lose global market share but the west despite all its big talk of free trade will immediately turn to protectionist policies when its own firms are under threat.
I mean you can already see this happening with Huawei. They just need to claim it’s a “national security threat” or whatever.
Luckily its only the US and its vassals that won’t be able to buy these things… the rest of Asia, Africa, and Latin America all still have access.
What I would worry of. They won’t have us having nice things.
if china advances too fast? china can’t deliberately slow down its speed of development.
Intel’s x86_64 is already at a dead end. Apple’s Arm chips are faster and way more power efficient.
Completely outclassed on the Mac side and heavily bleeding market share to AMD for years on the non-Mac side
All because their stupid execs couldn’t bother to treat their workers a bit less garbage so all their talent wouldn’t leave
I am confused, the article states that it’s probably not “true 7nm” because then you couldn’t use it in crypto ASICs…but crypto is banned in China.
Crypto being banned doesnt mean it doenst “happen” in China to be honest. But I think the reason they claim it is not “true 7nm” is because of the process used in its fabrication.
I dont know much about this but the point is they have made it without EUV lithography and this is important because one way for them to surpass US in computer development depends on using this tech to develop more advanced chips like 5nm ones. Westoids are freaking out bc China is getting closer and closer to take the lead, and this new 7 nm chip shows they might have enough tech to make it possible very very soon
The article itself was fine I think, but the comments below it 🙄
dropped atom bomb on western experts
Unfortunately not literally
The reports say it’s a copy of of TSMC 7nm. So is it actually better? Is this picture a miner or something?
