A recent report by The Miner Mag suggests bitcoin mining orders might have sped up Huawei’s development of its new Kirin smartphone chip. The chip, which powers Huawei’s new Mate 60 Pro smartphone, was produced by China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) using its N+2 7nm process.
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The Miner Mag reported that bitcoin mining companies were among the first to buy SMIC’s N+1 process, ordering wafers and providing the volume that helped SMIC improve its 7nm production. The Miner Mag is a blog and data publication by Blocksbridge Consulting focusing on the bitcoin mining industry.
Guess who was among the first batch of companies that did tape-out and production on SMIC’s N+1 7-nm chips that later proved to power Huawei’s comeback?#bitcoin https://t.co/XXbBMWxdvw pic.twitter.com/MHxvcaDaXn
— TheMinerMag (@TheMinerMag_) September 4, 2023
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