{"id":21001,"date":"2026-05-26T21:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/huaweis-workaround-for-us-chip-curbs-faces-hurdles-on-road-to-self-reliance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:27:49","slug":"huaweis-workaround-for-us-chip-curbs-faces-hurdles-on-road-to-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/huaweis-workaround-for-us-chip-curbs-faces-hurdles-on-road-to-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei\u2019s workaround for US chip curbs faces hurdles on road to self-reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/26\/c9ffa3f2-376d-43c5-aaba-159054717dff_72b5339e.jpg?itok=mVbxMi-v&amp;v=1779805458\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Huawei Technologies has engineered a workaround to one of China&rsquo;s most crippling chipmaking bottlenecks, but analysts warn that the nation&rsquo;s path to semiconductor independence is still constrained by manufacturing challenges.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If true, the innovation marks a significant milestone for Huawei, which has been cut off from advanced semiconductors, leading lithography machines from Dutch supplier ASML, and cutting-edge electronic design automation (EDA) tools since 2019.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company&rsquo;s new Tau (&tau;) Scaling Law proposes a major shift in how chips are built. For decades, the industry advanced by physically shrinking transistors to pack more onto a silicon wafer. Huawei is betting instead on a concept called &ldquo;time scaling&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rather than trying to make the hardware components smaller, the firm aims to boost performance by compressing the effective time constant (&tau;) &ndash; essentially speeding up how fast signals travel across devices, circuits and systems.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under this new path, improvements in lithography tooling &ndash; the critical chokepoint in China&rsquo;s semiconductor ambitions &ndash; are &ldquo;not necessary&rdquo;, according to He Tingbo, chair of Huawei Scientist Committee and president of the company&rsquo;s semiconductor business department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Huawei&rsquo;s workaround for US chip curbs faces hurdles on road to self-reliance<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei Technologies has engineered a workaround to one of China&rsquo;s most crippling chipmaking bottlenecks, but analysts warn that the nation&rsquo;s path to semiconductor independence is still constrained by manufacturing challenges. If true, the innovation marks a significant milestone for Huawei, which has been cut off from advanced semiconductors, leading lithography machines from Dutch supplier ASML,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/huaweis-workaround-for-us-chip-curbs-faces-hurdles-on-road-to-self-reliance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Huawei\u2019s workaround for US chip curbs faces hurdles on road to self-reliance&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}