Evidence mounts that China has sanctions-defying 5nm tech::Huawei’s next-generation Ascend 910B AI accelerator purportedly uses SMIC’s N+2 process technology.

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    11 months ago

    I’m unsurprised that they have the tech. Whether or not their process has a high enough yield to be commercially viable remains to be seen, however.

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      11 months ago

      More to the point, it’s good that there exists an alternative to the ARM+Qualcomm platform, for commerical as well as technological competition. Natsec-based sledgehammer measures probably aren’t an efficient way to achieve this, but oh well.