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AI · 07/29/2026

China Is Building Its Own DUV Lithography Tools, and Five Machines Is the Wrong Number to Watch

China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography tool order includes five machines this year and twenty next year. This development signals a shift in the…

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AI · 05/20/2024

SMIC 5nm: Pushing DUV Past Reason

SMIC 5nm means leading-edge logic on DUV at punishing cost, driven by China's need to build Huawei's Ascend AI chips after the US banned…

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CHIPS & AI · 09/05/2023

SMIC 7nm: The Mate 60 Shock

SMIC 7nm shipped in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000S, a DUV-built chip that proved export controls could not cap China at 14nm.…

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CHIPS & AI · 04/20/2021

SMIC N+1: A 7nm-Class Node Behind a Closed Door

SMIC N+1 is a 7nm-class node built without EUV, after the 2020 Entity List cut SMIC off from the one machine the industry uses…

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