Comment by alwa
21 hours ago
Everyone’s interest except, perhaps, the Taiwanese state… where TSMC’s know-how lives, and whose help you’d need to transfer it elsewhere.
I keep hearing SMIC has allllllmost caught up, of course…
21 hours ago
Everyone’s interest except, perhaps, the Taiwanese state… where TSMC’s know-how lives, and whose help you’d need to transfer it elsewhere.
I keep hearing SMIC has allllllmost caught up, of course…
EUV is an American technology which we decided to license to ASML/TSMC instead of Nikon/Canon. They do have their own knowledge but are not irreplaceable.
Nope, it's Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...
Nope, it's not. From your own link:
> In 1991, scientists at Bell Labs published a paper demonstrating the possibility of using a wavelength of 13.8 nm for the so-called soft X-ray projection lithography.[4]
> To address the challenge of EUV lithography, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories were funded in the 1990s to perform basic research into the technical obstacles. The results of this successful effort were disseminated via a public/private partnership Cooperative R&D Agreement (CRADA).[3]
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If it was Japanese we'd be talking about Canon and Rapidus instead of ASML and TSMC.