00:00Huawei Technologies says it can produce industry-leading semiconductors within five years
00:06in a move that highlights Beijing's push to offset U.S. sanctions
00:10that have restricted China's access to advanced cheap technology.
00:15The company says its new approach could narrow the gap with industry-leader TSMC.
00:20At present, there is estimated to be about a five-year gap between TSMC's capabilities
00:26and what Huawei, together with its manufacturing partner SMIC, can produce.
00:33Huawei said its high-end chips could reach transistor density equivalent to 1.4 nanometer process by 2031
00:41without providing independent performance data.
00:44The target would place it close to the cutting edge of global chipmaking.
00:48By comparison, Taiwan's TSMC, the world's leading chipmaker,
00:52currently uses two-nanometer technology and plans to enter mass production of 1.4 nanometer chips in 2028.
01:00However, experts say reaching that level through conventional manufacturing alone remains unlikely,
01:05given American restrictions on access to advanced lithography and other critical chipmaking tools.
01:11The nanometer measure is used to indicate the size of transistors on a chip.
01:16The smaller a transistor becomes, the more can be fitted on a chip,
01:20which in turn will become more powerful.
01:21The main control.
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