China’s leading chip manufacturer, SMIC, has made progress on the road to 5nm with its latest production process, but “it remains significantly less scaled than leading commercial 5nm nodes offered by TSMC and Samsung,” industry researcher TechInsights says, citing a teardown of Huawei’s Kirin 9030 smartphone chip. The report confirms the production process is a true improvement, saying SMIC’s N+3 “shows meaningful density improvements” over its N+2 (7nm) process. (Note: The ‘Father of Immersion Lithography’ Burn J. Lin said in 2021 that SMIC would be able to achieve 5nm chip production with existing equipment and did not need EUV lithography equipment.) $Taiwan Semiconductor(TSM.US) $Intel(INTC.US) $SSNLF

Source: Dan Nystedt