Huawei’s newly released MateBook Fold laptop runs on another 7-nm Kirin chip made by SMIC, as the Mate 60 Pro smartphone did two years ago
The finding dampens speculation that Huawei had made the leap to SMIC’s 5-nm process, for which production is difficult to scale because of US sanctions on the sale of the most advanced chipmaking equipment to Chinese fabrication plants. The report comes nearly two years after TechInsights identified that Huawei was using SMIC’s 7-nm process for the Kirin chips in its latest smartphones, starting with the Mate 60 Pro.
