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New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Super dramatic aren't they lol!
The hype is that it's using a domestic CPU. It's unclear how good a CPU it is, but apparently it was made with a semiconductor process which is only several years behind cutting edge. That's not really surprising, though, I doubt there was all that much "hushed concern".
I imagine there's also a question of if the Chinese can scale production up at all, or if some precision German machine tool is an impassible bottleneck.