• Huawei's new Kirin 9050 Pro is being called its "most powerful" all-Chinese chip tech giant has ever made

  • Huawei is claiming a 55% density gain by 'folding' its chip in half and stacking it instead of shrinking the actual die

  • The chip still uses US hardware and foreign technology to manufacture, including ASML scanners and pre-2022 Applied Materials and Lam Research equipment

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[–] 7 points 10 hours ago

Pretty cool, solid achievement.

Breaking the stranglehold that USA/ROK/TW have on high end IC manufacturing can only be beneficial.

Not really into silly expensive bougie phones but new tech usually comes out like this.

Given the inscrutability of hardware in general, and the desire for 5 eyes to maintain their own backdoors/not give other nations any I suspect competitive chinese chips will end up banned in 5 eyes nations and allies tho :(

TBH I'd prefer a government halfway across the world that doesn't give a shit about me being able to spy on me than my own but obviously no state is keen on citizen's privacy.

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