Huawei’s latest server chip – the Kunpeng 930 is built on TSMC’s 5nm architecture. The finding was revealed in a teardown video by @Kurnalsalts who shared a video of the process. The new chip should offer nearly 2x performance jump over its predecessor, though it is still a few generations away from the latest generation of Intel and AMD offerings.
Huawei Kunpeng 930 teardown
Kunpeng 930 features a CPU fabbed on TSMC’s N5 process while the I/O die is presumably SMIC’s 14nm process. The 77.5mm x 58.0mm chip features a dual-socket motherboard including a Mount TaiShan CPU…