One of the USA's top priorities seems to be preventing China from getting access to the best semiconductor technology. Experts have said that the aggressive trade sanctions preventing non-US companies like Zeiss and ASML selling crucial tools and technology to Chinese companies could lead to China being more self-sufficient and going by a new Bloomberg article, that appears to be happening. They got TechInsights to analyse a brand new Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone and discovered that its SMIC manufactured SoC uses pretty advanced 7nm technology that most people didn't think China could mass produce yet. TSMC is still more advanced, but SMIC is catching up and doing it without "western" help.
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