The company also mentioned that the Kirin 9020 is a “fully home-grown chip”. This is a 7nm chip, not a 5nm or 6nm one The bottom line is, many consumers won’t really care that this is a 7nm ...

SMIC has been shipping a 7nm chip for a year, says TechInsights which has reverse engineered the device and says “initial images suggest it is a close copy of TSMC 7nm process technology.” Although it ...

AMD has confirmed "that wafer supply is tight" on TSMC's advanced 7nm process. The chipmaker has largely batted away concerns of short chip supply ... of console chips. Image courtesy of the ...

What makes the A12 Bionic stand out is that it’s built using a 7nm process. While it’s hard to compare these numbers given that every chip manufacturer seems to have its own way of measuring ...

EUV stands for ‘extreme ultraviolet lithography’ and enables even more precise and miniaturized chip layouts. The first customer for TSMC’s 7nm EUV output will not be Apple though.

The launch of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro, featuring the 7nm 5G-enabled Kirin 9000S chip, has confused American officials because SMIC was decades behind the competition last year. However, according ...

The press release only says a future Snapdragon processor will take advantage of Samsung’s 7nm node design, as well as Samsung’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. That chip will ...

For comparison, a 7nm node is a bit larger than human DNA, which is 2.5nm in diameter. Creating processors at that size has led to degraded chip performance. Mature processors today range from ...

Chinese server CPU designer Hongjun Microelectronics Technology might lay off up to half of its 300-strong workforce, reports Digitimes because it no longer has access to TSMC’s 7nm node.

Although Apple keeps its manufacturing contracts strictly secret, it’s widely believed that TSMC’s first 7nm chip production run will be the A12 processor that Apple will use in its 2018 iPhones.