For some weeks now, I have seen postings in which Havok makes comments and answers questions in relation to China's semiconductor equipment and IC chip manufacturing industry.. Who is this Havok guy?
Chinese semiconductor industry
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China will retaliate and Japan will only have itself to blame for deciding to listen to US dictates...
This seems to be the author of "光变". This book is a detailed history of the development of the panel giant BOE, from the plight of the 1980s to the current rise. It is a very good book. People who understand Chinese are recommended to read it.
That would be quite the big deal. I don't think they will actually use it for 14nm. But it probably has better overlay precision than I thought after his previous answers.
See that he deliberately avoids timing questions, because he doesn't know the answer.
hmm, that would just indicate the change in law probably doesn't have that much teeth. But I guess we will find out. Seems like the Japanese politicians are doing the bare minimum here to get Americans off its back.
look at this sales chart... we have seen a decrease in the number of exports of Japan's semiconductor manufacturing equipment...
Decrease of Japan semiconductor's related exports to China is inevitable.
There are already many local substitution solutions (in production or trial stage) for every Japan product. Many have still not caught up in quality and cannot be used at the same advanced node, but Chinese toolmakers and chemical and materials companies are closing the gaps one by one. In 2/3 years Japan will sell very little in China.
Of course bowing to US demands, will only but accelerate the process.
What does this been? Don't leave us non Chinese speaking people hanging lol
There is a good possibility that Nanda's ArF photoresist is stuck in customer validation hell. Their products may have passed their own internal verification against their internal design requirements but the customer feedback isn't favorable enough to gain certification with those end users. Therefore they are stuck in a loop of iterating changes, resubmitting for feedback until there is a signoff. Although the product may work the users may feel the results using the photoresists is less then optimal from a process standpoint and thus refuse to certify it w/o changes. There's not much Nanda can say besides they are working for it because they can't control the signoff. If there was no other option I am sure they would probably take the best they can get but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
That just sounds like their photoresists aren't good enough.
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