Huawei, the giant Chinese processor company, is already selling the 5 nanometer KIRIN9000processor for Android devices. Soon it was followed by Samsung Exynos 1080 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. The next-gen Kirin processor should arrive as the Kirin 9010 and it will be a 3nm chipset. This means that the competition is accelerating like crazy and soon the standard will be 3 nm. The issue is that no other chipmaker is able even to approach the 3 nm standard. Intel fell badly behind and that means that Israel's largest exporter will not be able to compete with Made-in-China. Chinese domination of the chip making business will necessarily destroy American (and Israeli) highly paid jobs. I do not know how to fabricate 3 nm chips, so the process seems unstoppable. The roadmap (pic) already is predicting 2 nm chips. Soon. After that quantum effects take over and the thingie is unmanageable. Transistor density is not all, performance is all, and in that parameter, INTEL is still competing. It is complicated.
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