That's a good generational gain in multi-core performance, but the single-core not so much. All in all, I hope these sanctions creates a better competition and alternatives from China considering the duopoly... of pretty much any cutting edge computing. I'm tired of $2k+ nVidia... if SMIC can catch up then surely there'll be viable alternatives in the future.
Three Huawei Pura 70 series SKUs have been announced with a new Kirin 9010 SoC. It is essentially an underclocked Kirin 9000s with virtually no visible tweaks. Somehow, it still outperforms its predecessor by a decent margin.