The main chip in Huawei’s newest flagship smartphone is only an incremental upgrade over its predecessor, according to a teardown by research firm TechInsights. The small update to the processor suggests that advancements in China’s chip-making abilities have slowed. Huawei surprised the U.S. government and semiconductor analysts last September when it released a smartphone with a chip that used an advanced manufacturing process it had been banned from accessing since 2020. Although the chip was several generations behind the world’s most cutting-edge chip fabrication techniques, it still was a milestone for China’s leading chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. https://library.techinsig.. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖