Reports of Huawei Technologies’ chip breakthrough are “incredibly disturbing,” says Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Huawei, a Chinese multinational tech giant, stunned global markets in September when it unveiled a significant 7-nanometer semiconductor breakthrough that ostensibly defied U.S. sanctions. The smartphone chip—named the Kirin 9000S—integrates the process and components for 5G connectivity. This has Huawei’s new Mate 60 smartphones to record download speeds linked to 5G. The chip was manufactured by China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), a firm placed on a U.S. trade blacklist called the Entity List in 2020. Huawei was added to it in 2019. Companies on this list are prohibited from purchasing and using U.S.-based technology....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/huaweis-chip-breakthrough-incredibly-disturbing-commerce-secretary-raimondo-5504780