Huawei and the US-China Chip War — #44

TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development. He posts often on X:   / tphuang  .


Steve and TP discuss:

0:00 Introduction: TP Huang and semiconductor technology
5:40 Huawei’s new phone and SoC
23:19 SMIC 7nm chip production in China: Yield and economics
28:21 Impact on Qualcomm
36:08 U.S. sanctions solved the coordination problem for China
semiconductor companies
42:48 5G modem and RF chips: impact on Qualcomm, Broadcom, Apple, etc.
47:14 5G and Huawei
52:50 Satellite capabilities of Huawei phones
56:46 Huawei vs Apple and Chinese consumers
1:01:33 Chip War and AI model training


Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.


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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai., SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

Please send any questions or suggestions to [email protected] or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.