News Chinese SMIC Tapes Out First N+1 ‘7 nm’ Chip, But Mass Production Uncertain

[Admin]

SMIC’s ‘7 nm’ process is here, but will it be used for mass production?

Chinese SMIC Tapes Out First N+1 ‘7 nm’ Chip, But Mass Production Uncertain : Read more

 

[Endymio]

>> "According to SMIC, when compared to its 14 nm node, its N+1 technology can ... potentially increase transistor density by up to 2.7 times..."

If it was a true 7nm following to their 14nm node, it would be improving densities by 4X, not "up to 2.7" times. And, of course, nothing in this article about the massive IP theft that has allowed SMIC to progress so rapidly in the first place.

 

[Raven😱]

>> "According to SMIC, when compared to its 14 nm node, its N+1 technology can ... potentially increase transistor density by up to 2.7 times..."

If it was a true 7nm following to their 14nm node, it would be improving densities by 4X, not "up to 2.7" times. And, of course, nothing in this article about the massive IP theft that has allowed SMIC to progress so rapidly in the first place.

You going to have to prove the claim there is IP theft。

Through is a simple test, SMIC can't really use it to make chip for customer outside china if it do "Massive IP theft".
so if SMIC Make Chip for a customer in Europe than you just full of lies.

 

[Endymio]

You going to have to prove the claim there is IP theft。

Gladly. SMIC settled the first lawsuit against it for IP theft 15 years ago ... then Chinese courts stopped taking such cases, as part of PRC policy to promote its homegrown semiconductor industry.

SMIC Settles Espionage Case

The FBI alone has over 2,500 active cases against China and Chinese firms for industrial espionage, including nearly a dozen linked to SMIC.

 

[Raven😱]

Gladly. SMIC settled the first lawsuit against it for IP theft 15 years ago ... then Chinese courts stopped taking such cases, as part of PRC policy to promote its homegrown semiconductor industry.

SMIC Settles Espionage Case

The FBI alone has over 2,500 active cases against China and Chinese firms for industrial espionage, including nearly a dozen linked to SMIC.

That doesn't mean much , All Company have IP case lunch against or settle. "massive IP theft"

Intel and others do it all the time , Inter have at least settle at least half dozen multi billion dollars IP Case with other company from different country. you can google it.

Here is a example.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2...amd--1-25b-to-settle-antitrust--ip-cases.html

you can try with other company too.

with some google you will find out that 2500 case is not a lot compare to how many case that is happening in any other major economic.

Not to mention current administration is state in its political document that to "Blame China". So i am would suggest anything they said should be taken with grant of salt.

 

[Endymio]

That doesn't mean much , All Company have IP case lunch against or settle. "massive IP theft" Intel and others do it all the time ...

Whoa there. Infringement is not the same thing as industrial espionage. I don't recall Intel ever settling a case against it of espionage, do you?

Not to mention current administration is state in its political document that to "Blame China". So i am would suggest anything they said should be taken with grant of salt.

Ok, let's take what the Obama Administration's CIA said about China. Feb 2016:

"Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernization provides the most thorough and insightful review to date of the covert and overt mechanisms China uses to acquire foreign technology. Delving into China’s “elaborate, comprehensive system for spotting foreign technologies, acquiring them by every means imaginable and converting them into weapons and competitive goods...The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is implementing “a deliberate, state-sponsored project to circumvent the costs of research, overcome cultural disadvantages and ‘leapfrog’ to the forefront by leveraging the creativity of other nations,” thereby achieving “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.”

Although PRC espionage is global in scope, the most important target is the United States."