Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China::Huawei Technologies Co.’s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough.
The facilities cost tens of billions of dollars and the equipment is export restricted. The PRC physically cannot build a facility without spending literally a trillion dollars to develop their own equipment.
Tsmc is building a 5nm facility in Arizona, it will cost $40B.