yea man, china is praised too much here. it also has its shortcomings. China has built a chip on a 7nm node, which is considered news, by chinese standards. 7nm node has reached commercial yield 4 years ago, then it took about 2 years to reduce the gate size by 1 nm, until reaching 5nm. and beyond 4 nm, it takes about 4 years to reduce the gate by 1 nm, on average. Foundries are funded by their revenue, which means that with all the profits, a foundry could research a smaller process node, all with the money of companies like Apple and the such, Qualcomm, AMD…combined. Could china subsidize the semiconductor research with that same amount of money ? will see tbh. Also many of chinese phones are just e-waste ( very sketchy, unreliable lpddr ram on phones, the thing cant cache an app for a few minutes…app always has to be restarted…an old samsung phone would perform way better than a huawei or xiaomi phone, and designing 120w charging isnt a useful feature really )