Huawei has ambitious plans to restart the manufacturing of high-end mobile system-on-chips as early as this year, a report by Nikkei claims. The story corroborates an earlier Reuters report that Huawei plans to use SMIC's 7nm-class fabrication technology to make its comeback to smartphone SoCs. But there is a problem that Huawei may reportedly face: high defect density of SMIC's 7nm-class node.
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