Huawei touts progress in chip design work
has developed software tools capable of designing chips as advanced as 14 nanometres, advancing efforts to help Chinese companies sidestep US sanctions and replace American technology.
Huawei is among a coterie of Chinese hardware technology providers working furiously to replace sanctioned US components and software from AI chips to EDA tools — an arena dominated by American firms Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys. Chinese chip software developer Empyrean Technology rose as much as 7% in Shanghai on Monday after saying it has built solid commercial ties with major local chip designers and makers.
“We have basically realised the goal of building indigenous tools for designing chips as advanced as 14nm,” Xu said during a company event on 28 February, according to a transcript of his speech circulated on social media and confirmed by a Huawei representative. Huawei has built 78 tools over the past three years to replace foreign products, he said.
Fourteen nanometres is about four generations behind the latest commercially available products, but is already the second-best technology in China. Semiconductor Manufacturing International is capable of making 7nm chips.
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