If ARM revokes the license granted to Arm China, presumably neither TSMC or Samsung will make chips for Arm China, leaving them with just SMIC's 14nm process. N

If ARM revokes the license granted to Arm China, presumably neither TSMC or Samsung will make chips for Arm China, leaving them with just SMIC's 14nm process. Not a great place to be as a fabless chip firm! Further development by SMIC of smaller processes could be hampered if ASML (the group that makes lithography tools for everyone on or near the bleeding edge of chip fabrication) decides to cease working with SMIC in the future. Useful reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#Expected_commercialization_and_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#Expected_commerci... https://www.phonearena.com/news/14nm-kirin-710a-is-first-chip-for-huawei-made-by-smic_id124587 https://www.phonearena.com/news/14nm-kirin-710a-is-first-chi... https://www.gizchina.com/2020/05/26/smic-makes-major-move-to-complete-its-7nm-8nm-processes/ https://www.gizchina.com/2020/05/26/smic-makes-major-move-to...