Previously, Huawei's Mate60 has attracted widespread attention from the international community, not only because of Mate60's outstanding performance in all aspects, but also because no one knows whether it is the Kirin 9000S chip.
The United States has a first-mover advantage in the field of chips, has mastered a large number of core technologies and has a lot of market influence, so TSMC, Samsung and other manufacturers can only helplessly terminate the foundry of Kirin chips for Huawei after the United States modifies the chip ban. This naturally led to Huawei's Kirin chips not being able to be shipped for a long time, and even became a "swan song" for a time.
The chip problem has also become one of the key problems that Huawei continues to solve, but the chip industry chain is very complex, which not only involves multiple links, but also needs the support of a large number of software and hardware equipment.
Therefore, Huawei began to fully invest in the domestic chip industry chain through Hubble, and is also actively looking for domestic chip foundries to cooperate. With Huawei's unremitting efforts, Huawei has really found a chip foundry to OEM Kirin chips for it. As for who is this chip foundry?At the moment, no one knows.
Since Huawei has not disclosed the foundry of the Kirin 9000s chip, the United States and the West have been asking a question, how are the Kirin 9000s chips manufactured?Whether the process level is 7nm process or 14nm process. Even the United States** was very angry and said: Huawei's disrespect for the United States is disrespectful to the United States by not disclosing the information on the Kirin 9000S chip.
So far, almost four months have passed, but the United States and the West basically don't know anything about the Kirin 9000s chip, but what people didn't expect is that at this critical moment, Huawei once again opened a "hole card" and released a new "big move".
Just recently, Huawei released the Qingyun L540 notebook, and the most important thing is that Huawei did not install it this time but chose to have a direct showdown, announcing the Kirin 9006C chip information carried by the Qingyun L540 notebook. Judging from the information published on Huawei's official website, Qingyun L540 notebook is equipped with Kirin 9006C chip, and Kirin 9006C chip is made of 5nm process technology, with eight cores, and can achieve up to 3The main frequency speed of 13GHz also has higher performance, lower power consumption and faster processing speed.
Judging from the public information and various data, there are certain similarities between the Kirin 9006C chip and the Kirin 9000 chip manufactured by Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for Huawei at the foreground. However, some industry insiders said that this is most likely because Huawei HiSilicon has a similar technical level in the design of Kirin 9000 chips and Kirin 9006C chips, and it should have little to do with the foundry process.
What's more, judging from Huawei's embarrassing situation that Huawei had no chips to use in the past few years, and even needed to purchase Qualcomm's 4G chips, there is no need for Huawei to put 5nm 5G chips in the warehouse for so long, and finally take them out and use them on laptops. This basically means that the Kirin 9006c chip was produced recently.
Judging from the current global semiconductor industry pattern, TSMC, Samsung, Intel, etc. can basically rule out the possibility of foundry for Kirin 9006C chips, after all, if it is really the Kirin chips that these manufacturers manufacture for Huawei, then the United States should have discovered it a long time ago.
After all, whether it is Samsung or TSMC, there is a certain amount of American technology in the advanced chip process technology, and it is not so easy to bypass the American technology to OEM Kirin chips for Huawei, and Intel itself is an American chip company, and it is impossible to OEM for Huawei in the United States without knowing it.
This basically means that the Kirin 9006c chip and the Kirin 9000s chip are the same as the Kirin 9000s chip, both of which are advanced chips made by domestic chip foundries for Huawei, and it can be seen from Huawei's direct disclosure that the Kirin 9006C chip is a 5nm process, Huawei is not worried about being blocked by the United States, which also proves that the Kirin 9006C chip is a domestic foundry.
In fact, this can also be proved by various news from the recent Chinese semiconductor market, such as the domestic ** has repeatedly reported the breakthrough of Harbin Institute of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in lithography machines, and it is also rumored that Huawei has applied for a patent for lithography machines. Not only that, there has been news about SMIC's breakthrough in the 5nm process in recent years, and in September 2022, SMIC further emphasized its technology research and development for 5nm. Recently, there have also been reports that SMIC has manufactured chips with 5nm process through deep ultraviolet lithography technology, that is, DUV lithography machine.
However, this time Huawei still did not disclose the relevant foundries and production of Kirin 9006C chips, so it is unknown how the Kirin 9006C chips were produced, but it is certain that Huawei has obtained a stable 5nm process chip**.
Postscript:
Huawei's recent release of Qingyun L540 notebook has attracted widespread attention from the international community, judging from the information published on Huawei's official website, Qingyun L540 notebook is equipped with Kirin 9006C chip, this chip is produced by 5nm process technology, so the outside world is speculating about how Huawei's Kirin 9006C chip is manufactured.
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