[treefry]

They cannot manufacture such advanced chip even if they have circuit design.

[tankenmate]

Not only that, by the time they figure how to do it the rest of the world will have moved on by at least 2 generations. SMIC has announced 14nm (but shipments in volume aren't clear), TSMC will have 5nm chips shipping in volume by the end of the month.

[2Gkashmiri]

how does that matter? SMIC had the 7nm news recently, not sure about that but even if it is 14nm, can't they throw money on the problem and get something to start with?

they don't have to achieve A100 levels in the first go, even Rpi level chips should be enough to give them experience

[Gasp0de]

Taiwan is pretty close to China...

[hwillis]

Literally all nvidia has is the circuit design. They do not do any fabrication, and they get all their stuff made in taiwan.

If china had the layout, they would just get it made in taiwan.