Loongson's latest CPU and Chinese semiconductor manufacturing in general is closing in on the west

Chinese chip designer Loongson has shown off its latest x86-64 compatible CPU, the 3A6000, which they claim performs around the same as the Intel Core i3-10100 CPU in various benchmarks. Now this might not sound impressive as the i3-10100 isn't exactly cutting edge, but it's impressive when put into context. This is a pure Loongsoon design, nobody's IP (well, legally) is used here and it's fabricated in China using a 12nm process. No western technology involved, it's all homegrown Chinese stuff. Combined with SIMC & Huawei's 7nm process SoCs in the Mate 60 Pro and YMTC's quite good NAND chips going in SSDs like the Fanxiang S770 and S880, it feels like it's only a matter of time Chinese semiconductor manufacturing is on-par with Intel/TSMC/Samsung. The USA's sanctions on high end semiconductor manufacturing may have had the opposite desired effect.