Comment on Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 5 months agoWhen you say “they can’t” do you mean “they haven’t constructed a facility and hired people that can do this” or do you mean even if they did those things they would not be able to?
The reason I ask is I have been in several discussions on here where people have insisted it is the second.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There are barriers to suddenly having sub 7nm chip production. The EUV etching laser setup is hundreds of millions of dollars per machine and are made by one country - The Netherlands - who are aligned with American and NATO trade ideals.
The issue also isn’t getting one; maintenance and software are required for each machine and are also strictly guarded. It’s why places like China and NK don’t have advanced chips but have rocket programs. It’s thesenbig things that’s gatekeeping progress.
Taiwan literally bet it’s future as a country on advanced technology and it paid off, probably the only one that did. SK has chaebols to soak up the cost and Samsung did exactly that with the help of the government in the 80s to compete with Japanese DRAM. It worked so well Japan stopped making most chips and SK took over.
USSR, India, Germany, America, Japan, Bulgaria, Vietnam, etc. have tried to start advanced chips technology centers but it doesn’t succeed for one reason or another, typically due to the long time frame and high costs making it unsustainable.
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Very interesting, thank you.