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.
When I put things back together there are always extra parts. I certainly would not want the job of reverse engineering an EUV system.
Yes, this is old news but it did happen.
I was working with an EDA company when a China customer called for support. It turned out they were not a customer but ended up paying for the pirated software they had been using. This was known as the most expensive support call on record.
Yes, this is old news but it did happen.
I was working with an EDA company when a China customer called for support. It turned out they were not a customer but ended up paying for the pirated software they had been using. This was known as the most expensive support call on record.
If you believe some people they are in trial runs already. Anyway it is one thing to make a functional prototype, quite another to make something with mass production capability. Or to serial produce it.
A good example is the rest of the Chinese semi tools industry. They will only have parity in market share with Western vendors later this decade. Even when they can make a viable product the production capacity is not there yet.
Funnily enough the amount of money allegedly spent , anything but cheap [talk inclusive]