The authors are researchers working at SMIC. Since I have access to the full paper, the Naura equipment is this bit.
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The paper is from SMIC, quotes that they are using NAURA etchers and PIOTECH coating tools (in other paper) for their sub-28nm nodes, SMIC has 2 sub-28nm nodes, 14nm and 7nm.
Semiconductor equipment independence is a very important part of China's semiconductor independence.
I would like to know how much production disruption has occurred due to a lack of support for semiconductor equipment in Chinese semiconductor manufacturing lines such as SMIC?
They had to cancel their EUV fabs for 5nm. Other than that the sanctions seem to have had no negative impact on SMIC.
You could even argue that the sanctions had a positive impact on SMIC. Because of the sanctions SMIC had way more demand for 14nm-7nm than they would have had otherwise. Remember Huawei used to manufacture their chips at TSMC.
pretty good article here on Moore Thread and it's most recent creation of 10s thousands cluster of GPUs that can do 10 EFLOPS+
Very interesting here to see the training time in days for 1 EFLOPS data center vs # of parameters and tokens.
Basically even 1 EFLOPS data center is sufficient to train any smaller models. But you wouldn't want it to train 70B parameter model probably
New Core technology airbag controllers.
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