I thought they dissolved their team due to American pressure?
Chinese semiconductor industry
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They still have other groups...
From what I've seen in this thread, SSMB might well be able to be used for X-ray lithography with some adjustment, though the deployment and commercialisation would also depend on photoresist development.
design cost of 2nm is 725 million usd.
Kirin 9000s reveals SMIC can mass produce commercial 7nm chips. Having released the Huawei Mate 60 family without any publicity whatsoever and specially during Gina Raimondo's "visit" to China was a master marketing stroke and a furious slap in the face of the US sanctions.
This has profound geopolitical repercussions and I am pretty sure Huawei got the green light from very high up to let Huawei slap the US in the face.
One can expect fierce reaction from US and friends, possibly forbidding any DUV supplies by ASML to China.
I don't think Huawei would risk such a reaction from the "West" UNLESS China is now capable of mass producing litography machines, at least as good as ASML's 28nm.
It is amazing how quiet SMEE and AMEC have been regarding their achievements.
28nm already accounts for most of the $$$ in chip manufacturing. If you include 14 and 7nm in your manufacturing weapons cartridge, specially if you advance even further with 3D stacking, I am pretty confident China can bankrupt most of the "Western" chip companies by flooding the market with cheaper chips within the next 10 years.
It won't be long before China will do to chips what it did to solar panels.
This has profound geopolitical repercussions and I am pretty sure Huawei got the green light from very high up to let Huawei slap the US in the face.
One can expect fierce reaction from US and friends, possibly forbidding any DUV supplies by ASML to China.
I don't think Huawei would risk such a reaction from the "West" UNLESS China is now capable of mass producing litography machines, at least as good as ASML's 28nm.
It is amazing how quiet SMEE and AMEC have been regarding their achievements.
28nm already accounts for most of the $$$ in chip manufacturing. If you include 14 and 7nm in your manufacturing weapons cartridge, specially if you advance even further with 3D stacking, I am pretty confident China can bankrupt most of the "Western" chip companies by flooding the market with cheaper chips within the next 10 years.
It won't be long before China will do to chips what it did to solar panels.
"I don't think Huawei would risk such a reaction from the "West" UNLESS China is now capable of mass producing litography machines, at least as good as ASML's 28nm"
I have had the same reaction and wonder how many ASML lithography machines are now scheduled but pending delivery or final installation. Not waiting for these machines to be delivered or installed would be incredibly short-sighted, and unlike the US, China rarely makes impetuous decisions.
There was a recent comment that SMEE's DUVi is close to 2000i performance metrics and that workbench issues were resolved. If that was true, that would partially explain this. But what about photoresists?
SMEE? Yes.
AMEC? They have been pretty vocal of their achievements as you can read in this thread, they are a stock company so they have an incentive.
yeah, AMEC is public company and is the most vocal about their successes
some note from research on them
says here for ICP, it's being used in 17nm and under DRAM processes. I assume it must have entered samsung & SK supply chain
looks like its LPCVD product also met requirements
Its CCP product can be used in 5nm logic process and 200+ layer 3D Nand process
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