This is a photo of the architecture of SMIC’s 7 nm chip. This is making big headlines in Western tech press.
Especially because U.S. pours more billions in its semiconductor industry than China does and that SMIC is slated to get prohibited from buying ASML’s DUV lithography machines. Yet today China’s SMIC is at least 2 generations ahead of Intel 😁
Curious timing though, with the CHIPS act up for a vote. Intel, Micron would have us believe SMIC somehow jumped two nodes so they can get $50B in taxpayer money.
So Intel and AMD are going to become obsolete?
Not likely. If China advances too fast in this field the west will simply ban Chinese products from their own internal markets. Intel and AMD will lose global market share but the west despite all its big talk of free trade will immediately turn to protectionist policies when its own firms are under threat.
I mean you can already see this happening with Huawei. They just need to claim it’s a “national security threat” or whatever.
Luckily its only the US and its vassals that won’t be able to buy these things… the rest of Asia, Africa, and Latin America all still have access.
What I would worry of. They won’t have us having nice things.
if china advances too fast? china can’t deliberately slow down its speed of development.
Intel’s x86_64 is already at a dead end. Apple’s Arm chips are faster and way more power efficient.
Completely outclassed on the Mac side and heavily bleeding market share to AMD for years on the non-Mac side
All because their stupid execs couldn’t bother to treat their workers a bit less garbage so all their talent wouldn’t leave