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They cannot manufacture such advanced chip even if they have circuit design.
by treefry 4y ago
They cannot manufacture such advanced chip even if they have circuit design.
- tankenmate 4y agoNot only that, by the time they figure how to do it the rest of the world will have moved on by at least 2 generations. SMIC has announced 14nm (but shipments in volume aren't clear), TSMC will have 5nm chips shipping in volume by the end of the month.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agohow does that matter? SMIC had the 7nm news recently, not sure about that but even if it is 14nm, can't they throw money on the problem and get something to start with? they don't have to achieve A100 levels in the first go, even Rpi level chips should be enough to give them experience
- popol12 4y agoI guess they are not able to buy the tooling (think ASML EUV) to make advanced node either. So, they’d also need to throw a shitload of time and money at this.
- markus92 4y agoThat's what they've been trying to do, of course, but so far they haven't really succeeded yet.
- girvo 4y agoThis is one of those problems that “throwing money at it” doesn’t speed it up. China has been throwing money at the problem for over a decade and they’re still behind.
- Gasp0de 4y agoTaiwan is pretty close to China...
- checkyoursudo 4y agoThose fabs aren't going to survive an invasion.
- hwillis 4y agoLiterally all nvidia has is the circuit design. They do not do any fabrication, and they get all their stuff made in taiwan. If china had the layout, they would just get it made in taiwan.