Started late in 2020 so should still be in assembly. Possibly already completed. Have to find out more information about the status of this prototype.
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Another one, boy oh boy 2021 is starting to be a good year for China domestic IC.
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Cambricon's first AI training chip starts mass production with TSMC's 7nm process
January 21, 2021 By:
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On January 21, Chinese AI company Cambricon's MLU 290 and accelerator card, Xuansi 1000 smart accelerator debuted after mass production.
The MLU 290 smart chip is Cambricon's first training chip, using TSMC's 7nm process, integrating 46 billion transistors. It supports AI training, inference, or hybrid AI compute acceleration tasks.
Cambricon is the first AI chip stock in China. Previously Cambricon has launched MLU 100 and MLU 270 in the cloud, both on a 16nm process.
MLU 290 is fully upgraded in terms of architecture, memory, and interface. Compared to MLU 270, MLU 290 achieves a 4x increase in peak arithmetic power, 12x increase in memory bandwidth, and 19x increase in inter-chip communication bandwidth.
Based on MLU 290, Cambricon has also launched MLU290-M5 intelligent accelerator card and Xuansi 1000 intelligent accelerator.
The accelerator card adopts Cambricon's self-developed MLU-Link technology, providing AI arithmetic power up to 1024 TOPS with maximum heat dissipation of 350W; the Xuansi 1000 intelligent accelerator integrates four MLU 290s, with a maximum AI arithmetic power of over 4.1 PetaOPS INT4.
It is worth noting that Huawei and NVidia have long launched the same type of chip with a 7nm process. After losing Huawei as a major customer, Cambricon's revenue in the first three quarters of last year was RMB 158 million, only 35% of 2019, with a loss of more than RMB 300 million.
However, the launch of the advanced process chip has stimulated capital markets, with Cambricon up about 18% today.
Cambricon currently has a market cap of RMB 68 billion, although it is still below the highest market cap of RMB 100 billion reached after the company's IPO.
The MLU 290 smart chip is Cambricon's first training chip, using TSMC's 7nm process, integrating 46 ...
Bad news. Relying on TSMC is like trusting a wolf to guard a flock of sheeps.
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does SMEE 28nm DUV uses the same projection lens system as the 90nm SSA600 ? only difference is using immersion or water therefore increase the resolution? SMEE using 国望光学 projection lens. I checked their website their product is Epolith A075型曝光光学系统
Its only good for 90nm under air or dry condition. There is no other system on their website.
Epolith A075型曝光光学系统是“国家科技重大专项02专项”的核心研究成果之一，是我国首套具有全部自主知识产权的90nm节点光刻机曝光光学系统。
does SMEE 28nm DUV uses the same projection lens system as the 90nm SSA600 ? only difference is using immersion or water therefore increase the resolution? SMEE using 国望光学 projection lens. I checked their website their product is Epolith A075型曝光光学系统
Its only good for 90nm under air or dry condition. There is no other system on their website.
Epolith A075型曝光光学系统是“国家科技重大专项02专项”的核心研究成果之一，是我国首套具有全部自主知识产权的90nm节点光刻机曝光光学系统。
Please, Escobar. Please at least put some comment or opinion when posting these.
It looks like a Tweeter posting bot.
Funny US industries have to stop production thanks to shortage of imports from Taiwan. Not only China, US also has shortfalls in chip industry.
HW and other Chinese firms might have a bit of chuckles, karma is a bitch. Trump never fails to deliver own goals.
Good thing is Taiwan is within an hour reach. China can and will interdict chips exports to US at any moment in case of a crisis.
It would be a shame something happens to TSMC foundries in Taiwan in that process.
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Well, just a side effect of the tech war.
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