Is Huawei’s new chip scaling law a true breakthrough, or mere hype?

Microchip development has always been a race to build smaller and smaller transistors – the fundamental components of chip circuits. Now China’s Huawei-technologies" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="15073" data-entity-type="organization">Huawei Technologies wants to change the game entirely.Faced with US tech export restrictions that block its access to the world’s most advanced chipmaking machinery, Huawei is proposing a fundamental shift in semiconductor progress: stop obsessing over how small the transistors are and start focusing on how fast data moves through the system.It is a strategy born out of necessity. But how much of an advance is it? And can it rewrite the playbook for China’s tech survival? The China-morning-post" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="12558" data-entity-type="organization">South China Morning Post explores all you need to know about the tech giant’s innovation.What is Huawei’s Tau Scaling LawHuawei’s semiconductor chief He Tingbo unveiled a new framework called the Tau, or τ, Scaling Law, at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai on Monday.