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State-of-the-art chip fabrication is still mostly based in Taiwan, with TSMC (as an example: the BR100, China's most recent native flagship gpu, is fabbed using TSMC) - China's own SMIC has appeared to struggle

However, they seem to have been catching up fairly quickly - until very recently SMIC have been stuck around 14nm (state of the art in 2013, SMIC in 2019), but they recently announced they have managed to start producing 7nm chips (state of the art in 2018)



Take Chinese announcements with a grain of salt. It’s the same as “IBM produced 0.1 nm transistor” stuff. It’s far from production.

They’ll get there eventually though.


SMIC didn't announce that it's fabricating 7 nm chips. The news came from an external analysis of a chip SMIC fabricated.

SMIC apparently began fabricating at 7 nm without any fanfare.




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