Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 11 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon.
. That's because the line was powered by Huawei's first 5G Kirin chipset since 2020's Mate 40 series. That was the year when the U.S. changed its export rules to prevent any foundry using American technology to produce chips from shipping cutting-edge silicon to Huawei.
Before the Mate 60 series was introduced, Huawei had obtained a license allowing it to use special versions of Qualcomm's Snapdragon application processors for the P50, Mate 50, and P60 flagship models. Those chipsets were tweaked to prevent them from working with 5G signals. The Kirin 9000S, the 5G chipset used with the Mate 60 line, was manufactured by China's largest foundry SMIC. Without access to an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, it wasn't certain that SMIC could produce a 7nm chip suitable for a smartphone, let alone a flagship model, using the deep ultraviolet lithography machines it has access to.
SMIC is expected to produce two chips for Huawei this year. One is the aforementioned new Kirin SoC for Huawei's handsets, and the other is the Ascend 920 chip used for AI applications. But not everything is running smoothly. SMIC's 7nm yield is said to be less than one-third of top foundry TSMC's yield while SMIC is charging 40% to 50% more than TSMC does for chips produced using the 5nm and 7nm nodes., the company cannot obtain the license from the U.S.
Chips made using lower process nodes can be equipped with smaller transistors increasing the transistor count of these chips. And the more transistors inside a chip, the more powerful and/or energy efficient that chip is. For example, the 2019 iPhone 11 series featured the 7nm A13 Bionic which had 8.5 billion transistors inside. The 3nm A17 Pro, powering theA discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative.
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