Not for consumers, but definitely impressive on paper on April 7, 2021, 11:24
In brief: Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor, a fabless joint venture between Via Technologies and the Shanghai municipal government, has revealed what appears to be China s first 7nm GPGPU, a gargantuan chip that s supposed to compete with the likes of Nvidia A100 and AMD MI100 in the data center.
China is on a quest for technological self-sufficiency, and the trade war with the US has only accelerated that process. China is capable of covering over 20 percent of the chips needed in the local industry, but the government plans to increase that number to 70 percent by 2025. One example of that is using aging chips while its semiconductor industry catches up, turning to Japan for etching equipment that would otherwise be considered obsolete.
Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Co. (Tianshu Zhixin) announced earlier this week that it was close to bringing its first-ever homegrown 7nm
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