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> Yeah for sure - if people outside of China and their sphere of influence can get hold of a device to do impartial testing. That's exactly what the article yo
by DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
> Yeah for sure - if people outside of China and their sphere of influence can get hold of a device to do impartial testing.
That's exactly what the article you're commenting on is about. An independent organization in Canada just did a teardown of the new Huawei phone, and verified that it's using a new SoC manufactured by SMIC.
- bArray 3y agoFrom what I understand, they have not yet confirmed this [1]: > TechInsights has received the Huawei Mate 60 Pro in its Ottawa, Canada laboratory. Work has begun to determine if the application processor is indeed SMIC’s latest generation process node – advancing it from its N+1 7nm node found by TechInsights in July 2022 in the MinerVA7 Bitcoin Miner. From what I can tell, Reddit has also mistakenly jumped the gun too [2]. [1] https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-confirming-smic-n2-7nm-huawei-mate-60-pro https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-confirming-sm... [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/168wewl/review_of_hisilicon_kirin_9000s_with_its_custom/ https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/168wewl/review_of...
- nneonneo 3y agoThey seem to have confirmed it: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7nm-n2-huawei-mate-60-pro https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7n...
- fspeech 3y agoKirin 9000 was TSMC's 5nm process. The new chip is on a presumed 7nm process and is only 2% bigger, which confirms that for finfet processes transistor density is decoupled from claimed feature size.
- bArray 3y agoThan you for the update. I will be keeping an eye on this for further developments.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y agoThe article that this entire thread is about says they've confirmed it.