Patel: China is limited to manufacturing 7nm chips, not 2nm
Jeetu Patel · Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z · Oct 29, 2025 · at 14:17
Jeetu Patel, President and CPO at Cisco, discusses geopolitical disparities in chip manufacturing capabilities and power availability.
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“China actually doesn't make two nanometer chips, they make, you know, seven nanometer chips.”
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