Development of SMIC’s 5nm AP for Huawei’s Mate 70 reaches an important milestone

In 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department changed an export rule to prevent foundries using American technology from shipping cutting-edge chips to Huawei. The latter was able to obtain Snapdragon chipsets for the P50, Mate 50, and P60 flagships although these chips were tweaked so that they couldn’t work with 5G networks. Then, last August, Huawei…

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