Touched a sensitive button, I see. I find it amusing that people like you choose to sell their talents to their motherland's strategic competitor but sing odes to their motherland. You must be quite conflicted about the whole situation?
Getting desperate with the personal stuff, eh? There is no conflict in me. I complete my education and work experience in the US and then I go home. Keep the small talk to yourself; I don't swing that way.
DUV cannot go below 28nm physical features. The 28nm that gets thrown around all the time is just a process name, as are 14nm , 7nm, etc... Nice try to dodge the fact that SMIC dropped the ball in their 14nm game.
28 is 28; 14 is 14 and 7 is 7. Nice try squirming out of that one. The only ball that dropped is your reading comprehension. 14nm is expected to make up a very small portion of the sales due to application needs. I have addressed that.
The US is playing it quite well thus far.
Thus far... for 2 years LOL. Only if you count the money on the surface, not even if you delve deeper into progress. That's already falling apart for the US. Americans are so short-termed. Trump's admin didn't care if they would make a monster Chinese IC industry as long as they can seem to pull ahead for the next couple years while Trump is in office.
With profit rising, still the largest 5G company in the world and now invested into its own chips? As with all anti-China logic, there is no future. Whatever small damage is done now is game set match.
All those investments into the latest and greatest application chips and 5G modems designed for 7nm and below lost most of their value with nowhere to manufacture them.
But they are still manufacturing them. They have forseen this, stockpiled the chips needed until Chinese 7nm chips come online, then researched additional innovative ways to improve chip performance in the meantime.
It was quite clever to wait for Huawei to grow into a +$100 bn company fully dependent on US and its allies technology and then cut off their legs. Way to maximize your damage in dollar terms.
It's clever to wait for Huawei to have more than ample resources to research its on lithography? LOL Yeah, just like how it's clever for the US to wait for China to become larger in PPP before trying to attack it's economy. It's clever for the US to throw away the final frontier of lithography against China with a half-assed ban.
Chinese companies are showering China's strategic competitors with record amounts of money. But then again what else are they going to do? Buy SMEE's vaporware?
Anti-Chinese people only look for short term. They don't care that what was a steady stream has now become a stopgap and that China went through decades of research in 2 years and is on the cusp of having the world's only complete and competitive IC manufacturing line. They just comfort themselves with, "Does China have it now? No!? We win!" What about tomorrow? There is no tomorrow for those who bet against China.
Oh and btw, the first complete IC manufacturing line was in the US over 50 years ago.
The the US has regressed because it now needs a Dutch firm and Asian expertise.
