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China’s Huawei touts chip design breakthrough in bid to defy U.S. sanctions
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SHANGHAI, Chinese tech giant Huawei said Monday that it had achieved a breakthrough that would allow it to make cutting-edge chips within five years, touting the news as a milestone in Beijing’s effort to circumvent U.S. technology restrictions.
Key facts
- That compares with the 7 nanometers China’s most advanced chipmaking capability is currently thought to be, and the 2-nanometer manufacturing technology used by Taiwan-based TSMC, the world’s leading
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who traveled with President Donald Trump to China this month for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, told CNBC last week that his company had “largely conceded
- Huawei said Monday at a tech conference in Shanghai that by 2031, its high-end chips would have transistor density equivalent to 1.4-nanometer processes, which is considered the industry’s cutting
- On Chinese social media platform Weibo, the hashtag has generated 40 million views and counting
Summary
With the United States and China vying for global dominance in artificial intelligence, U.S. sanctions that began in 2019 have largely cut Huawei off from global makers of semiconductor chips, the tiny brains that power everything from smartphones to computers to cars. Washington has also limited Beijing’s access to chip design software and semiconductor manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines, leading the Chinese government to invest billions into developing its own semiconductor supply chain. Huawei said Monday at a tech conference in Shanghai that by 2031, its high-end chips would have transistor density equivalent to 1.4-nanometer processes, which is considered the industry’s cutting edge.