For the first time, more than 50, TSMC came with good news about Huawei chips
TSMC announced that the yield of its Kirin 9000 chip will reach more than 50%, which is good news some time ago. It's unclear how TSMC arrived at this number, but it's a good thing for Huawei.
Many people may be familiar with the Kirin 9000 chip, which has been full since the Huawei Mate60 series was released in August 2023"Mystery"The chips have attracted a great deal of attention both nationally and internationally. More foreign media said that the United States has begun a comprehensive investigation of the Kirin 9000 chip, but there has been no result so far.
At present, Huawei does not have all the information about the Kirin 9000 chip, and the outside world's understanding of this chip only comes from the Kirin 9000 demodulation group, as well as the research of Samsung and TSMC.
Judging from the information obtained so far, the Kirin 9000 has reached the process level of 7 nm or even higher, and is not inferior to the Kirin 9000 in terms of performance and design. However, after actual testing, many institutions have said that the comprehensive performance of the Kirin 9000 is comparable to the 5 nm process technology of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, but in the case of multi-threading, it is still slightly inferior to Snapdragon 888.
However, some research institutes in Japan also claim that the Kirin 9000's chip is only 14 nm, not 7 nm. It's just that the Kirin 9000 uses more transistors.
From the report, we can clearly see that there is a slight process defect in Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip, but Huawei has made up for this defect through hyper-threading technology and advanced packaging technology. Its expansion capability may have reached the international mainstream level, although it is slightly inferior to Apple's A17 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen, but the expansion ability is also quite good.
And the Kirin 9000 chip may also be produced by TSMC and Samsung's foundries, because they use American technology. If it is really made by Samsung, TSMC, or even Intel, then the United States will be in the leading position for a long time.
This also means that Huawei has opened up the domestic chip industry chain and cooperated with domestic foundries to produce chips. For Huawei, this is undoubtedly a good thing, but considering the current progress of the domestic chip foundry industry chain and the procurement of semiconductor equipment, it is not optimistic.
At present, there is no advanced extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment in the world, and only the deep ultraviolet immersion lithography process can be used, and ASML has implemented export control, and the transportation license obtained before has been revoked.
This also means that the manufacturing of Kirin 9000 chips will be used many times. **Too much will affect the yield rate of the chip, when TSMC manufactured the A17 chip before, it was also exposed to the production of 3 nm process chips, resulting in a very low yield.
The low yield rate not only means that the cost is fast, but also means that the production capacity continues to decrease, so the Huawei Mate60 series will be in short supply. At present, the yield rate of Huawei Kirin 9000 has reached more than 50%, which means that the shipment of Kirin 9000 will continue to grow in the future.
The pre-order time for the Mate60 series has been shortened from 90 days to 60 days.
Huawei released a lot some time ago"Good stuff"Starting from the Rhino and Taishan architectures, the advanced chips and the Ascend series of artificial intelligence chips for the first class start.
Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Huawei is one of the strongest contenders in the field of artificial intelligence chips. To compete with Huawei, Nvidia has also supplied the Chinese market with three chips, which have been rapidly put into production in early January.
Postscript. It is gratifying that Huawei has made breakthroughs in many fields, and the opening of Huawei's overseas factory in France marks that Huawei is about to fully enter the global market and basically solve the problems of European communication equipment. Moreover, Huawei's Huawei App no longer supports the Android system, which also means that Huawei has taken an important step in architecture.
Needless to say, according to Huawei's news some time ago, it has basically achieved an all-round breakthrough, and it is almost impossible for the United States to contain Huawei's development for a period of time in the future.
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