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> Domestic fabrication is still at the 28nm phase at most. Allegedly SMIC has both 14nm and 7nm fabs as of last year.
by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Domestic fabrication is still at the 28nm phase at most.
Allegedly SMIC has both 14nm and 7nm fabs as of last year.
- alephnerd 3y agoAllegedly but with low yield rates and leveraging ASML+Nikon DUV products. Not to say that Chinese vendors won't eventually crack that nut, but it'll take several (3-7) years. Also, domestic design capacity seems to be somewhat lacking (though rapidly changing) The most cutting edge domestic lithography tool China has is SMEE's 28nm one - that's still a MASSIVE accomplishment, but still significantly far from 20/16/14/7nm processes. Even Russia had domestic capabilities for 28nm fabrication at scale in the 2010s. That said, for most military use cases, this is more than enough.
- alephnerd 3y ago> Even Russia had domestic capabilities for 28nm fabrication at scale in the 2010s. Edit: this is wrong. They have design capabilities but domestic fabrication is limited to 90nm.