ASML only setup customer equipments initially. After that they have no control.
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ASML only setup customer equipments initially. After that they have no control.
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Your statements are empty, pointless, flat out wrong, and based on nothing other than your imagination.
Your logic is really pathetic. Someone with this level of thinking cannot present any valuable arguments nor can he have respectable knowledge in any scientific field... We know the earth is round because we have evidence. If there was no evidence, of course, nobody can claim it to be any shape.
My viewpoint is that you should prove your claim. In terms of history, it is not necessarily contradictory to yours, just that when you tell a story, it must have evidence if it is not fiction.
That's not how logic works; you don't just make claims for other people to disprove. You need to back up your claims with evidence; the burden of proof is on you. Just because your basic facts are right does not mean that your conclusions from them are correct. You made some huge statements that China was leading in this tech in the 50's and that it was self-sufficient ( at a leading level as well). So you need to prove both, and you have failed. I don't need to contradict anything.
Of course it matters. Ownership means that the US was talented enough to develop everything but control simply means political power. When your article said that China was close to the US in semiconductor technology, it meant close to what the US had developed, which is terribly insufficient, NOT what the US controls through fear. Big difference. And what the US controls through fear, it can lose control of when they fear someone else more.
Why are you focused on history instead of now? As things pertain to the current situation, regarding the potential/ability of focused lasers to be used in mass production and on whether companies can hire employees to monitor their systems daily, you were wrong twice. That's most pertinent to today's technological landscape.
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Well, there have to be Chinese companies making all of these and more... The EUV photoresists, the chemical and plasma etching gases, the EUV plasma producing lasers... Every single piece of it and with Chinese made equipment only...
Can this inorganic titanium photoresists be coated unto silicon wafers so that the process described can be used to pattern the circuits of extremely transistor dense chips?
It might be possible to develop techniques that would use focused laser beams for large scale manufacturing of IC chips, including ones of 5 nm nodes or less...
But which country has lost ASML support?
Taking Taiwan back is going to happen sooner than you think, if China thinks ethnic Chinese worldwide is under threat, in this struggle between cultures. China should ask for all illegal and random sanctions against Chinese companies to be dropped, otherwise Taiwan will be brought back under PRC control.
If they can randomly ban tiktok and wechat from the app store, what is going to stop them from banning banking apps and food delivery apps? Their intentions are very clear. They are going to disrupt the daily lives of the average Chinese wherever they are.
This latest sanction is a desparate last ditch effort by the Trump Administration to try to stop Huawei's Business. They probably heard about Huawei's plans to set up FABs to manufacture 40nm, 28nm and eventually 14nm and so forth. Unfortunately they will not suceed in stopping Huawei, just slowing it down a little while Huawei makes efforts in starting its own Chip production FAB with the SMEE 22/28nm Litho machine.
Huawei will be setting up a FAB with Local equipment to produce 28nm Chips next year. This will be sufficient to make FPGAs and SOCs for its 5G Base Stations. I can bet you that 14nm Chips will be produced by Huawei shortly after for its Mobile Phones. The 14nm Chip Tech is mature and is already being produced by a number of FABs in China and Huawei will eventually get its hands on this 14nm Finfet design. After that Huawei will look at 7nm Chips.
SMIC is currently already setting up a FAB in Beijing to produce 28nm Chips using all local equipment. News is that the new SMEE 22/28nm Litho Machine will be used in this FAB.
Apart from the new SMEE 28nm Litho Machine, quite a large number of 14nm to 28nm Semiconductor Equipments will be released by Local Companies by next year. This will allow fully localised Chip production lines to appear by next year.
Overall this latest action by the Trump Admin may delay Huawei by 6-12 months but it will ensure that more FABS with Localised equipment will be built.
Huawei will be setting up a FAB with Local equipment to produce 28nm Chips next year. This will be sufficient to make FPGAs and SOCs for its 5G Base Stations. I can bet you that 14nm Chips will be produced by Huawei shortly after for its Mobile Phones. The 14nm Chip Tech is mature and is already being produced by a number of FABs in China and Huawei will eventually get its hands on this 14nm Finfet design. After that Huawei will look at 7nm Chips.
SMIC is currently already setting up a FAB in Beijing to produce 28nm Chips using all local equipment. News is that the new SMEE 22/28nm Litho Machine will be used in this FAB.
Apart from the new SMEE 28nm Litho Machine, quite a large number of 14nm to 28nm Semiconductor Equipments will be released by Local Companies by next year. This will allow fully localised Chip production lines to appear by next year.
Overall this latest action by the Trump Admin may delay Huawei by 6-12 months but it will ensure that more FABS with Localised equipment will be built.
Output. The problem is output. For effective photoetching what matters is the total quantity of photons. A smaller wavelength means a higher energy photon. For the same amount of energy input you will get fewer shorter wavelength photons than longer wavelength photons. X-ray light sources certainly exist, but the ones that exist just don’t generate enough photons to make an effective scanner (putting aside how the high energy photons from X-rays cause secondary interactions in your etch process that would pose their own problems). It’s not like generating EUV light was a challenge in principle either. What made it difficult was finding a way to do it that would generate sufficient photon count output for a production quality scanner.