The use of DUV equipment has greatly impacted the progress of China’s largest semiconductor firm, SMIC, and even though the latter was previously said to have successfully produced its 5nm wafer, mass production continues to suffer from inflated costs and low yields. These setbacks also negatively Huawei, who has been unable to cross the 7nm threshold. Sadly, with ASML barred by the U.S. trade sanctions to provide any Chinese entity with ‘state of the art’ EUV machinery, the only possible route for the country’s experts is to produce in-house equipment. According to the latest report, those ambitions are laid out […]
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