Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sudosysgen 1014 days ago
The article is based on an analysis of a Canadian firm that bought the phone on the open market, tore it down, and confirmed the chips were made by SMIC.

There is no reason why China needs to be better at mass production than TSMC. They just need to be able to do it, because they can't reliably buy chips from TSMC anymore. The evidence is overwhelming that yes they can do it.

Without competition from TSMC the price merely has to be reasonable, not competitive, so I don't see why they would go the GloFo route either.