China produces competitive 7-nanometer chips
Huawei has introduced its flagship smartphone Mate 60 Pro in China. It is the first smartphone since the three-year-old Mate 40 Pro to use a self-designed high-end processor from Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon. This shows that China’s chip production is further than previously assumed.
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Techinsights has already sanded and analyzed the Kirin 9000S used. The company comes to the conclusion that the Chinese chip contract manufacturer SMIC produces the processor with an advanced 7-nanometer process, called N+2. Compared to the first 7 nm process N+1, the chip yield is said to have increased. Bloomberg, together with Techinsights, shows images of the hardware. The YouTube channel “微机分WekiHome” took the smartphone apart in the video.
Own CPU cores, GPU and 5G integrated
SMIC tested the first 7…
