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According to Liberty Times, citing Wccftech, while initial expectations suggested that Huawei’s new Mate 70 smartphone would feature a next-generation flagship SoC, like the Kirin 9100, recent rumors indicate that Huawei may instead equip the standard Mate 70 model with a different Kirin chip. Onl...
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According to a report in Commercial Times, the leading Chinese semiconductor foundry, SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation), released its financial report for the third quarter on the evening of November 7. Due to robust growth in wafer production capacity and sales, SMIC's re...
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Following previous controversies of supplying 7nm chips to Huawei through proxies, TSMC has reportedly notified all its AI chip customers in China by formal emails that starting next week (November 11), it would halt shipments of all the 7nm and more advanced chips to its AI/GPU clients there, accor...
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Ahead of the upcoming presidential election and shortly after the TSMC-Huawei investigation, U.S.-based GlobalFoundries, the world’s third largest foundry company, was fined by the U.S. government for USD 500,000 for unauthorized shipments of chips to SJ Semiconductor, an affiliate of blacklisted ...
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Rumors have been circulating for a while that China’s tech giants are capable of manufacturing chips in advanced nodes even without the need for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines by ASML, and that local foundry SMIC has reportedly produced 5nm chips for Huawei. Now there seems to be a...