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U.S. Needs China’s SMIC to Cease Making 14nm Chips



When the U.S. Division of Commerce (DOC) restricted entry of China’s largest contract chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing Worldwide Corp. (SMIC) to fab tools used to make10nm-class chips, it was thought of a tricky however not too extreme transfer. Now the U.S. authorities is mulling proscribing China from producing logic chips utilizing a 14nm-class fabrication course of. 

The DOC is inspecting the potential for prohibiting the exportation of chipmaking instruments to firms in China that may make logic chips utilizing 14nm-class manufacturing nodes and thinner, in response to a Reuters report that cites 5 individuals accustomed to the matter. The one firm in China at present producing chips utilizing its 14nm fabrication course of is SMIC, which has been doing so since late 2019. 

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