The House Foreign Affairs Committee said Chinese chip giant SMIC “almost certainly required U.S. origin technology”
  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    A process technology isn’t the same as a chip specification, though. Proving China have stolen US technology in their processes is a huge leap, hell even as an allegation it’s probably being made blind.

    • skip0110@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I think this is very true, but western media isn’t going to probe this point.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Well more to the point, process technologies are owned by the fab’s, and the fab’s the US is complaining were stolen from are not American, so I don’t even see how US technology is involved.

  • skip0110@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    The US govt is unable to fathom that SMIC internally innovated to allow 7nm, and now 5nm process that does not need the sanctioned tech. Also, SMIC is likely stretching the truth, calling their N+1 tech 7nm, just to taunt the US.