Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's help, which would make it China's second chipmaker with such tech, after SMIC
China's Hua Hong Group has developed advanced chip manufacturing technologies that can be used to produce artificial intelligence chips …
“R&D on 7 nm chips began last year with support from domestic equipment suppliers including Huawei-backed SiCarrier” This would be the 2nd Chinese fab to reach the 7 nm generation level of chip production after SMIC. Appears that Huali was developed as a quasi-independent [image]
Biggest news of the day as HH subsidiary HLMC is starting 7nm production using mostly domestic tools (looks like) & already taped out AI chips for Biren & also working w/ HW. Back 3 yrs ago, HLMC website indicated it had already achieved 14nm production capability, but we never
China's Hua Hong “is planning initial 7 nm chip production capacity of a few thousand wafers per month by the end of the year, with a goal to ramp up more later” Big news but still early. Many have seen this coming. Backed by some of the usual suspects: Huawei, SiCarrier.