As belated as it is, it looks like there's something to report, actually:
SMIC produces N+2 smartphone SoC from Huawei's Mate 60 Pro.
www.tomshardware.com
And I guess I can be happy with it.
There's a sense of anxiety in the community about semiconductor development in China.
This anxiety is unnecessary.
China has a certain chip design capability. But that's all about it.
The process relies on the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany and France for equipment, components and raw materials.
However, there are areas of concern.
We are experimenting with a new system of embargoes that is different from COCOM.
At that time, in the old COCOM system, only bulk commodities (ores, oil and gas) were traded with each other.
Any consumer goods or manufactured goods could only be smuggled.
Nowadays, the BIS list system expands the scope of trade.
It is possible to buy all commodities except "military industrial goods".
There's no precedent before.
The main point is : There may be difficulties of distinguish(military application or nor) in some places.
So when we move some manufacturing to cheap labor areas . Our embargo costs went up.
Ultimately it depends on whether Europe and North America as a whole are willing to take on inflation (when you give some of your products to local workers to produce), and if that's the case, things will be much better.