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China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along (wccftech.com)
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[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This seems about right. Progress was originally supposed to be 5-10 years. I'm not too sure on how effective these prototypes are. My guess is that their progress of EUV sources is quite far now, but that they'll still need to have greater progress in regards to domestically created collector & debris mitigation systems, projection optics, mask blanks and other things.

Edit Addendum: Note, article agrees with the timeline of 5 years behind for China. Since their EUV source(presumably) works differently from ASML's LPP EUV(many think China is going LDP route for EUV source), research may still go up to 10 years, as they will likely need to account for this when researching the other components in a full scanner. Alot of significant modifications or straight up new shit will have to be made. And even then, it'll need to be commerically viable to compete with the West.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And even then, it'll need to be commerically viable to compete with the West.

Well, unless they invaded Taiwan...

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If Taiwan gets invaded they'll just blow their chip fabs, they've said as much multiple times and presumably have a plan in place to do it at a moment's notice. If that's what China is after I don't know that an invasion is going to work even if they succeed. It could deny future chip production to other countries though.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what I mean

Doesn't matter if China's chips are economically viable if they're the only ones making advanced chips...

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean, it kinda still does, but even if they did eventually invade, it wouldn't necessarily make China the only game in town. There are already other fabrication plants going up around the globe, an invasion would definitely accelerate their development.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

China seems to be closest though, if they reach viable modern CPUs first...

But realistically, I think China made a deal with the West to hold off on Taiwan until we have at least one modern chip fab working in the US and Europe

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

they’ll just blow their chip fabs

The US has said they will blow them up "for them". TSMC is supportive of US puppetted militarist fascism in Taiwan, but has backfired a bit from Trump. Tarriffs on Taiwan, and more restrictions on Chinese operations. TSMC definitely wants to avoid war even if it likes politicians that hype up weapons gifts, but also independently subsidizes it.

War is going to depend on US dictated decoupling, that black market can't get around. The fascists will have a hard time trusting US backing for the island, as Trump has been softer on China than Taiwan so far this year.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did anyone think they would not?
Given enough time it's inevitable any determined organization could make it.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Given enough time and an enormous budget it’s inevitable any determined organization could make it.

This kind of milestone isn't reachable by most countries in the world mostly because of the price tag attached to it

[–] 7isanoddnumber@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“China has reportedly built” Ok I’m gonna stop you right there. China reports it’s built a lot of stuff. It almost never actually builds anything.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Long time ago that was true.

Still doesnt mean that they built this well enough yet, but they are building alot of things that actually works right now.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -1 points 17 hours ago

Delusional, pure cope

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

China has made massive breakthroughs. In chips, SMIC/Huawei are advancing impressively in terms of products, but it is unclear how good yields/costs are, even if they are shipping commercial products.

Still, this PR does give hints that this is Garage hacked EUV with cannibalized parts they cannot make yet, and 4 year time scale is far out enough. There was PR of EUV breakthrough this spring too, and don't recall if this claim is additional advancement over that.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oops, wrong thread, h/t snoons.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

wrong post :)

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