Last year, Huawei and SMIC made quite a breakthrough with the 7nm-class HiSilicon Kirin 9000S processor which powers Huawei's Mate 60 Pro smartphone. However, this year's Mate 70 Pro handset and its system-on-chip demonstrate limited progress in semiconductor manufacturing in China, as the processor continues to use a 7nm-class process technology reports Bloomberg citing TechInsights. While this may not be a problem for a smartphone, the slow semiconductor progress will likely become an issue for Huawei's AI processors.
