BREAKING: An insider source is claiming that China, particularly Huawei, has found a means to achieve Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography by 2023, the chip making technology the US has sought to stop the country acquiring.— The Chollima Report (@ChollimaOrg) December 29, 2021
To add to the rest , Dutch firm ASML, a spinoff of Philips NV, is the world’s only producer of Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography machines that etch impossibly small patterns on 5- and 7-nanometer chips. Samsung and TSMC are the only companies who have used EUV systems in production and huge reaseon behind Taiwan's importance economicaly and one of the fields that the west and its allies has been comfortably ahead of China for years and its a monumental field. But it satyed ahead of cource with dirty tactics. At the request of the US government, Holland canceled the sale of an ASML machine to China late in 2019 ,sanctioning any ASML-china transaction and has blocked every tech ,tool and info transaction towards China regarding EUV Lithography it can, trying to keep China from attaining parity in semiconductor tech and production cepabilities at all costs.
But it seems like this is an obstacle China will overcome and has put a lot focus on it, developing the related tech and capabilities and finaly (hopefully) making the leap to parity
https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography-chips-moores-law/
To add to the rest , Dutch firm ASML, a spinoff of Philips NV, is the world’s only producer of Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography machines that etch impossibly small patterns on 5- and 7-nanometer chips. Samsung and TSMC are the only companies who have used EUV systems in production and huge reaseon behind Taiwan's importance economicaly and one of the fields that the west and its allies has been comfortably ahead of China for years and its a monumental field. But it satyed ahead of cource with dirty tactics. At the request of the US government, Holland canceled the sale of an ASML machine to China late in 2019 ,sanctioning any ASML-china transaction and has blocked every tech ,tool and info transaction towards China regarding EUV Lithography it can, trying to keep China from attaining parity in semiconductor tech and production cepabilities at all costs.
But it seems like this is an obstacle China will overcome and has put a lot focus on it, developing the related tech and capabilities and finaly (hopefully) making the leap to parity