Brandon Weichert: China's Attempt to Reverse-Engineer ASML's DUV Machine Ends in Failure
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Vendors and fabs don't always have a lot of respect for each other. The vendor is a spy. Half the time the vendor makes a serious problem worse and takes 0% ownership. The other half the time, as in this case it seems, the tool owner made a mess and the vendor could see that, and is preparing the groundwork to inevitably take 0% ownership.
Finding a tool in a state isn't necessarily nefarious, is my point. Its par for the course.
Finding a tool in a state isn't necessarily nefarious, is my point. Its par for the course.
I think only the tools in SMIC's FinFET fab are not serviced anymore. Yet the fabs still operate. And have been doing it for years already.
The idea some people have that the Chinese cannot make their own lithography machines is ludicrous on the extreme. Now that they are being forced to, they will do it. It is a question of when not if.
The idea some people have that the Chinese cannot make their own lithography machines is ludicrous on the extreme. Now that they are being forced to, they will do it. It is a question of when not if.