From Shrinking Transistors to Compressing Time: Deciphering Huawei’s τ Law

Huawei’s answer to Moore’s Law without EUV promises 14A performance by 2031.

By Echo Zhao, EE Times | May 26, 2026

As Moore’s Law gradually becomes ineffective, the semiconductor industry seeks new paths to performance growth. At the 2026 IEEE ISCAS conference in Shanghai, Huawei said it has shifted performance optimization from “geometric size” to “time compression,” and validated this through engineering practice (using 381 chips designed and mass-produced over the past six years).

In her keynote speech at ISCAS 2026, He Tingbo, president of Huawei Semiconductor, began by saying, “Over the past six years, I’ve often been asked: How did you survive and return to the forefront in highly competitive industries such as smartphones and AI?”

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