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No lah. Intel is now closing the gap and just behind SMIC a little, being able to make 7 nm chips this second half of the year. SMIC has been shipping 7 nm chips since last year so Intel is about a year behind SMIC only.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/07/no...chips.html

Taiwan gets very worried as they thought China has no way to catch up, not in another 50-70 years.

Now the U.S. wants Korea and Taiwan join Chip 4 Alliance to stop them selling chips to China. The problem is China is the biggest customer of both Korea and Taiwan. Last year 90% Taiwan made chips were exported to China and 45% Korean made chips were exported to China. Stop exporting chips to China will kill the lifelines for both.