From what I’ve read, they’ve partnered up with a manufacturer which may have acquired the necessary ASML tech before the ban. If that’s the case, they’ll need years to decades to get even in terms of technology; the development stops at 7nm and there’s no way to go down to 5nm.
There’s a reason the entire world is dependent on chip manufacturing machines from one single manufacturer. Making chips at single digit nanometer scale is incredibly difficult and requires extremely advanced manufacturing technology.
I don’t think China has been able to clone the EUV process yet. If they could, the Chinese government would be announcing so in every news paper around the world.
Possibly they just reverse engineered the machines and made more?
Impossible in the timeframe. There’s a reason why ASML is the only producer on this level.
From what I’ve read, they’ve partnered up with a manufacturer which may have acquired the necessary ASML tech before the ban. If that’s the case, they’ll need years to decades to get even in terms of technology; the development stops at 7nm and there’s no way to go down to 5nm.
There’s a reason the entire world is dependent on chip manufacturing machines from one single manufacturer. Making chips at single digit nanometer scale is incredibly difficult and requires extremely advanced manufacturing technology.
I don’t think China has been able to clone the EUV process yet. If they could, the Chinese government would be announcing so in every news paper around the world.