[News] Huawei Executive Acknowledges Production Bottleneck, Addressing that Solving 7nm Issues Would be Good Enough 

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According to a report from Chinese media outlet “Phoenix New Media,” Zhang Ping’an, Executive Director of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies, acknowledged that China is unlikely to achieve 3nm or 5nm processes and emphasized that solving issues relating to 7nm would be good enough.

Zhang pointed out that the semiconductor industry in China currently cannot directly compete with developed countries in cutting-edge processes, such as 3nm and 5nm. This is an indisputable fact, but it does not mean that China’s semiconductor industry has no prospects for development, the report noted.

Zhang believed that the semiconductor industry in China should be more focused on deepening efforts in relatively mature processes, such as 7nm, to enhance product performance and reliability, meeting the needs of the market and users.

Zhang further emphasized that the innovation direction of China’s semiconductor industry should not be limited to any single-point chip processes alone. Moreover, overemphasis on advanced processes may lead to the ignorance of optimization and innovation in system architecture, which potentially resulting to bottlenecks in overall performance.

He also stated that China’s semiconductor industry should pay more attention to innovation in system architecture. By optimizing the collaborative work between chips and systems, overall performance can be enhanced, thereby gaining greater competitive advantages in the global market.

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