Huawei Technologies Co.’s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough.

Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China::Huawei Technologies Co.’s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough.

  • JustinEnglish
    9•11 months ago

    The facilities cost tens of billions of dollars and the equipment is export restricted. The PRC physically cannot build a facility without spending literally a trillion dollars to develop their own equipment.

    Tsmc is building a 5nm facility in Arizona, it will cost $40B.

    • @grabyourmotherskeysEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      I get that it is expensive. My question was “if they…” not can or would.

      I’ve had several interactions where people say “even if you moved a facility to China magically and brought all the people and they were willing, it would not work”.

      Now, I have no love for China but surely that can’t be true.

      • @ichbinjasokreativEnglish
        5•11 months ago

        It’s not. They don’t currently have this kind of technology, but moving a tsmc fab to china with all of it’s personnel willingly ‘switching sides’ would make it possible for them to learn.

      • JustinEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        With enough time and money, anything is possible.

        • @TelodzrumEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          This is important, it’s expensive and hard but it also just takes a long time to make the foundries.