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Introduction: Not installed anymore? Netherlands ASML changes attitude: Foreign media: EUV lithography equipment may "lagged behind"
Since my country's Huawei company was suppressed, we have begun to notice the development of the domestic semiconductor industry. For domestic technology companies, if they want to produce semiconductor chip , then the first thing we need to solve is the stuck problem of lithography machine . If there is no lithography machine, then we will always be stucked by others to develop; then is there a way to bypass lithography machines?
Is there a way to bypass the lithography machine?
Now in the global lithography machine market, Dutch ASML company is the dominant one; the advanced EUV lithography machine it produces is a necessary equipment for producing chips below 7nm. Because of this, even if an EUV lithography machine is as expensive as 1 billion, it is still in short supply in the market; it is worth mentioning that under the restrictions of the US " Vasenar Agreement ", even if my country has money, it cannot buy advanced EUV lithography machines; since it cannot be bought, we can only find ways to develop ourselves. With the continuous efforts and breakthroughs in the domestic market, ASML's attitude towards the Chinese market has also undergone a great change. What's going on?
Netherlands ASML changed its attitude and increased its development in the Chinese market
At first when my country expressed its intention to independently develop a lithography machine, ASML said: Even if the drawings were made public, China could not make them! However, with the continuous development and breakthrough of the entire Chinese market, ASML has now realized the importance of the Chinese market, so she simply stopped installing and began to increase its layout and development in the Chinese market. ASML plans to expand the team of Chinese employees to 1,700 people, and establish multiple offices, R&D centers and maintenance centers in China!
Foreign media: EUV lithography equipment may "lagged behind"
While ASML is accelerating its development in the Chinese market, my country has been trying to avoid EUV lithography machines; after all, fighting hard with EUV lithography machines does not have much significance for the development of domestic technology companies, and traditional silicon-based cores The development of films needs to follow the Moore law . It is difficult to break through after reaching below 1nm, so the country has also begun to look for new opportunities to replace it, and the new photonic chip is the opportunity for China's chip; it is reported that with the continuous efforts of domestic technology companies to research and development, the first domestic multi-material photonic chip production line is coming, and it is expected to be completed as early as 2023. In this regard, foreign media have also stated: EUV lithography equipment may be "lagged behind"! Compared with silicon-based chips,
photonic chips not only have stronger performance, but also have lower power consumption. It can be said that this is also the best direction for future chip development. In addition, photonic chips can also bypass EUV lithography machines. Then, the EUV lithography machines produced by ASML are indeed as foreign media said: they will fall behind! When the performance of traditional silicon-based chips is approaching the physical limit, everyone is trying every means to develop new alternative materials. The emergence of photonic chips also made ASML not expect that the substitutability of EUV lithography machines will be so high!
Now TSMC's chip process technology has been developed to 3nm, which is getting closer and closer to the physical limit of 1nm. The market does not have much time left for ASML companies, so ASML no longer installs, directly changes its attitude towards the Chinese market and begins to try every means to please the Chinese market. However, we will not be easily confused by ASML. In the lithography machine market, only when we increase our efforts in independent research and development and insist on taking the path of independent innovation can we go further. I wonder what you think about this?
