"Smuggled" or handed over?
China was escalating toward Taiwan; military drills, invasion threats, the full-pressure campaign. Then, suddenly, China pulls back? And at the same time, we find TSMC-made chips inside Huawei's processors; in clear violation of U.S. sanctions?
Now, TSMC announces more advanced fabs sites in Taiwan, when your neighbor is threatening to take control of your country?
If China was about to invade yesterday, but today TSMC is building new structure next to them?
C'mon, folks. Read the room.
QuoteHuawei managed to smuggle TSMC dies despite export control restrictions and is seemingly coasting on them to produce its ostensibly homebrew AI accelerators, according to a teardown of its 910C chip.
The word 'smuggle' conveys that what Huawei is doing, importing and exporting chips to and from China, is somehow 'illegal', which is false.
Notebookcheck (and other western news outlets) seem to have a problem with reporting on China related events in an objective way I've noticed.
It's only a matter of time before China catches up.
The threat by the US on companies doing business with China can only do so much. In fact, it only shows how afraid the US is on China's ascendency.
Quote from: Lk on October 05, 2025, 06:27:28It's only a matter of time before China catches up.
The threat by the US on companies doing business with China can only do so much. In fact, it only shows how afraid the US is on China's ascendency.
China, SMIC, exclusively uses western manufacturing tech and does not have own. And will not have in near future. For info, most advanced Chinese scanner is 28nm what west had in 2010.
Only say for China is stealing and lying like they did with TSMC.
US will not retain its hegemonic technological stranglehold on SMIC forever.
It should start worrying about a more resilient and innovative China breakout instead of gloating over it's technical superiority.
"This includes smuggled" LOL
Dumb statist-slave mob.
Slave - Smuggled Illegally forbidden parts.
Master - imported legally the needed parts.
The slave discourse message you encoded didn't land well with the decoders, didn't it?