China-made Chips

  • SMIC can make 7nm chips without ASML lithography machine

    Although a 7nm manufacturing process lithography machine has not been introduced from the Netherlands, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) can also use N + 1 process to manufacture chips close to 7nm process, according to Tencent Tech.

  • ZTE's 7nm chip has been mass-produced

    ZTE released its 2019 annual report on Friday, with annual revenue of 90.74 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year. Net profit was 5.15 billion yuan, an increase of 173.7% year-on-year.

  • Huawei aims to make Kunpeng compatible with 90% of applications in 3 years

    Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing Business, said at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Cloud) media communication meeting that he hopes to make  90% of applications be able to run on Kunpeng processor in 3 years.  

  • Kirin 820 5G chip will be released on March 30

    Honor announced today that a new generation of Kirin 820 5G chips will be released online with Honor 30S on March 30th. Honor 30S will also be the first mobile phone equipped with Kirin 820 5G chip.

  • Tencent may also make chips after Alibaba and Baidu

    After Alibaba and Baidu, Chinese tech giant Tencent may also enter the chip market.

  • Yangtze Memory wafer capacity will rise to 50,000-100,000 by year-end, report says

    At the end of this year, Yangtze Memory wafer capacity will be increased to 50,000 to 100,000 from the current monthly production capacity of about 20,000 wafers, Chinastarmarket reported today.

  • Academician urges speeding up push of China-made operating system

    From the discontinuation of Windows XP in 2014 to the discontinuation of Windows 7 in 2020, we need to accelerate the construction of operating systems made in China, Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in a forum today.

  • Chinese researchers develop method to 'draw' chips with nano brushes

    The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced today that Chinese researchers have developed a method for preparing low-dimensional semiconductor devices using "nano brushes" to "draw" various chips.

  • Nokia uses China-made UNISOC processor for second time on its new device

    HMD released an entry-level smartphone "C1" in Africa last year, equipped with a UNISOC processor for the first time. Now its successor C2 has passed Bluetooth certification and has been certified in Malaysia and Thailand.

  • China-made Loongson CPU now supports 36 channels of 1080p video in one

    Chinese chip maker Loongson Technology today announced that the Loongson 3A3000/3B processor has been adapted to the network video conferencing system. It can be stably installed and operated on the Loongson platform and supports 36 channels of 1080p video in one transmission.