China's 7nm Chips: SMIC N+2
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a high-level, in-depth take on SMIC's 7nm progress and Asian chip manufacturing.
What it is
Asianometry's short analysis of SMIC's N+2 node, China's 7nm leap forward. It considers how far behind the competition SMIC still is.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends chrisjc · 2022-08 · on “TSMC Completes Construction of 5nm Fab 21 in Arizona”
Asianometry released a video yesterday related to this. [this video] While stating that SMIC might still be around 4-6 years behind the competition, I was completely shocked to hear it was only that. The next few years are going to be some very interesting times.
Recommends zer00eyz · 2024-04 · on “Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit”
>> Western FDI constituted negligible part of PRC domestic investment as % of GDP... US made it geopolitically difficult to invest in PRC Foxconn leaving at apples behest (and the Foxconn owner getting vocal with the prc in a rare move). The banking exoudus from Hong Kong (now deep into its 2nd year). And the impact to the GDP... its a literal house of cards with the failure of ever grand with country garden hot on its heels... Meanwhile the retail apocalypse has hit china. High end luxury brands. Out. Grocery chains, shutting down. Finally the iron bowl, the local government workers are getting pay cut. (because land sales are a shitty source of funding)... Post pandemic there was going to
Cites fakethenews2022 · 2022-08 · on “SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies”
Supposedly a high level TSMC executive moved to SMIC in 2017 and became co-CEO. So did 200 TSMC engineers. There was a lawsuit a few years ago that TSMC won but it before all this. [this video] [LINK]
Cites igravious · 2022-09 · on “US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia”
Nah. Your interpretation is undoubtedly correct. I've been on HN 12 years now and I've become used to the increase in Western chauvinism over the recent years – mostly all of it led by US sentiment. The implication above is that the US is part of the civilized world (colloquially called "The West") and that China (and presumably Russia, and Iran, and Venezuela, and Cuba, et al) are part of the uncivilized world. See, for instance, on this page where Hume speaks of civilized versus uncivilized forms of government: “This chapter examines Hume's conception of government. It considers three forms of government that Hume distinguishes: barbarous monarchy, civilized monarchy, and free government (