A chip guru believes that it is highly possible for Huawei to make its own 5nm chipset, but it will be an expensive path for the company
Huawei defying the U.S. sanctions and proceeding to mass produce the 7nm Kirin 9000S for a range of flagships is regarded as a miracle by industry watchers, but that does not mean that the road ahead is going to be any easier. A former TSMC Vice President of Research And Development who is also known for inventing immersion lithography is regarded as a ‘chip guru’ in the latest report, and he states that fabricating a 5nm chipset on the existing DUV equipment is going to be highly expensive, but doable.Using DUV machinery to mass produce a 5nm silicon requires at least a four-fold patterning process, which is not only time-consuming but expensive too
The P70, P70, and P70 Art are reportedly under development for 2024 and are expected to be Huawei’s first wave of flagship handsets for next year. However, there is still no information on which chipset these premium smartphones will use, but Burn Lin, who is referred to as a ‘chip guru’ by DigiTimes, claims that gravitating from a 7nm chip to a 5nm on DUV machinery is possible, but it is going to cost Huawei.
