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>are there foundaries in China that can produce the chips necessary while ignoring foreign patents? Realistically, no. The only two competitive, bleeding edge
by axaxs 7y ago
>are there foundaries in China that can produce the chips necessary while ignoring foreign patents?
Realistically, no. The only two competitive, bleeding edge foundries are TSMC and Samsung.
- mappu 7y agoSMIC are now rolling out 14nm - that's apparently competitive enough for people to still use Intel CPUs.
- axaxs 7y agoIntel is Intel, as unhelpful as that statement is. So these guys are starting on 14nm, while others are pushing ahead to 5 and below. Sure it'll work, but I don't find that competitive in an already crowded smartphone market in the next 2 years.
- deepnotderp 7y agoThere's a very, very big difference between "rolling out 14nm" with unknown yields, performance, etc. Vs Intel's venerable 14nm process.
- AFascistWorld 7y agoThey've been rolling it out since 2016, better wait until their product actually appears.