Huawei Just Changed the Future of Microchips Forever!

Cyrus Janssen reports on a significant technological pivot from Huawei, as discussed at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai. Facing US sanctions that limit access to advanced Western lithography, Huawei has introduced 'Her's Law'—a shift from the traditional focus on physically shrinking transistors ('Moore's Law') to a focus on 'time scaling' and a new 3D chip architecture called 'LogicFolding.' By redesigning how information moves through the chip rather than only shrinking components, Huawei claims to be nearing 1.4-nanometer class performance and has already mass-produced over 380 chip designs using this method. The video presents this development as a case study in how Chinese industry overcomes restrictions, drawing parallels to historic Chinese engineering projects.