BREAKINGVIEWS-Huawei advance will mark new phase in chip war

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By Ka Sing Chan

- Beijing’s AI champion says it could make cutting-edge chips by 2031 using a “Tau Scaling Law”. If realised, Huawei’s bold push would speed China’s bid to ditch Nvidia and other Western tech. It ups pressure on Washington to tighten its tech restrictions.

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Huawei Technologies on May 25 unveiled a new principle for improving chips. The Tau Scaling Law, as the Chinese company calls it, focuses on cutting the time it takes signals and data to move through chips instead of making the chips smaller.

By applying the Tau Scaling Law, Huawei claimed it could produce high-end chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4 nanometre processors by 2031.