Doubtful that Huawei’s 5nm chip is domestically-produced. Looks like old stock TSMC that Huawei no longer needs to stockpile because domestic capability is quickly becoming competitive with it.
Huawei’s chip was impressive, but not for the reasons you think.
It was based off an existing chip design originally intended for cryptocurrency mining and made using old fab technology that China still had access to post sanctions.
It was impressive because they did push the old fab technology to new levels, but also probably pretty close to its technical limitations.
Doubtful that Huawei’s 5nm chip is domestically-produced. Looks like old stock TSMC that Huawei no longer needs to stockpile because domestic capability is quickly becoming competitive with it.
There’s absolutely nothing doubtful about that. Pretty much everybody in the west now admits that China can make 5nm chips domestically.
Huawei’s chip was impressive, but not for the reasons you think.
It was based off an existing chip design originally intended for cryptocurrency mining and made using old fab technology that China still had access to post sanctions.
It was impressive because they did push the old fab technology to new levels, but also probably pretty close to its technical limitations.