@BlackWindMnt bro a SBBS laser and from what I gather it can power multiple EUVL?
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@Overbom So true bro, I understand your feelings But I give my reason, aside from being the same ethnicity (possible unification) if given the chances their expertise will quicken the pace of Chinese IC development and it will operate in China therefore under Chinese control. We had see how Taiwanese compatriot like Mr Chang and Mr Liang help SMIC BIG time and those are individuals , we're talking a major Corporation here and it's the biggest fish in the pond.
There is a prevailing pattern, if a foreign corporation or company is successful so successful that it trump an American company, it will be sanctioned , restricted ,kidnap and even charge on farcical account. How low the US will get to remained number one, pathetic!
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She cited Dylan Patel, that's all I need to know.
All scientists use secondary sources when writing, but the difference is, unlike boba consultants scientists have the capability to evaluate secondary sources for reliability and can also either obtain primary sources or generate primary data themselves.
Empyrean I believe is limited by node availability. The industry advances in parallel from EDA to foundry to packaging equipment .They are at 28nm and should be at 7nm in 2023/4.
Remember that it's easier to catch up than to push the frontier.
Just last week, Huawei founder said that chip making is just processes and sooner or later, Huawei and China will have the most advanced capabilities. I wouldn't bet against him
As long as Western sources, especially those from high profile mainstream media, such as the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, or the BBC do not report of the existence of the 28 nm machine, even Western tech niche sources reporting on its existence will not be believed by many persons who just have it in their mind that a Chinese company and Chinese citizens do not have the capability to produce very high resolution DUV machines. Imagine, that fellow mentioned sources that say that the 90 nm lithography machine is not capable of mass production. Nlalyst might even indeed believe that himself.
@Weaasel bro, I'm waiting for @foofy info regarding its official handover? it may take a while but it will surely be a momentous event. The way the Chinese system works I bet an existing machine is already being put to its paces producing chips while waiting for a Feng shui expert for scheduled date ..LOL
Another one is the result of N+2 7nm chip mass production, Huawei 14nm 3D stacking Chiplet and an improve laser for DUVL and LPP. Hope to hear at least one of them before the year 2021 ends.
90nm is the single feature resolution, it can be described as a simple equation based on the characteristic of the dry SMEE DUV machine, the light source is 193nm wavelength, the NA of the optics is 0.75, so the resolution is k * LS / NA 0.35 * (193 / 0.75) = 90 nm, this is the maximum resolution without any other enhancement like multiple pattern or computational lithography. Add better optics and you can get a better resolution. Add an immersion system and you can increase the resolution even more, but most of the resolution increase in DUVL after 45nm comes from the software, not the hardware, so ASML is right to worry about the boost of lithography from China because computational lithography is an area that the Chinese are really hard at work.
The physical limit using immersion lithography is 50nm for an NA of 1.35, that is why ASML can export machines to China because in theory their machine do not broke the 45nm of the Wassenaar Arrangement, made for EUV , but ASML can go as low a 38 using super resolution techniques with software and hardware to correct for aberrations, that is old technology. So is not far fetch to think that SMEE can archive 35-28nm.
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