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by teruakohatu 2225 days ago
I am sure 5G chips can be built with older processes. They might just need more cooling and be less efficient.
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That makes Huawei's 5G chips much less commercially competitive, giving Qualcomm a leg up in the handset market and making it much harder for Huawei to win.

However, for base stations, which are the real prize, Huawei already has a ~1y stockpile of Xilinx FPGAs, so any effects on Huawei's 5G market position will take some time to manifest.