China's technological breakthrough will turn the global gadget market: what was able to do

< img src = "/uploads/blogs/f0/d6/ib-FS15vuahn_316240df.jpg" ALT = "China's technological breakthrough will turn the global gadget market: what was able to do"/> ~ ~ < p > Chinese company Semiconductor Manufacting International Corporation (SMIC) has mastered the production < P > The breakthrough is described in the series & nbsp; posts & nbsp; Nbsp; Analytics by William Huo in the social network X (former Twitter). Like & nbsp; considers & nbsp; GIZMOCHINA, this can dramatically change the semiconductor industry worldwide.

< p >SMIC has learned to produce chips for a 5nm technological process, using old Ultraviolet (DUV) old equipment instead of EUV, combined with a very complex process known as “Self-Level Quarterly Template” (SAQP).

~ < P > For many years in the semiconductor industry, it was believed that EUV-lithography machines made exclusively by the Dutch company ASML are indispensable for the manufacture of 5 nm chips and newer. Most analysts believed that China would be stuck at 7 nm due to export restrictions on the part of the United States and their allies who have deprived Chinese companies access to advanced lithographic systems. ~ < P > However, if you believe in Chinese analytics, SMIC moves forward, squeezing a maximum of outdated industrial equipment. According to William Huo, this included the imposition of several stages of lithography and digestion, in particular, using SAQP to simulate EUV accuracy. In this way, the chips are made much slower, more expensive and with a large percentage of marriage, but it works.

< P > The expert added that DUV -based technology is not advanced, but it is quite good to provide 90% of work loads of ABI, 5G and high quality consumer devices. China does not need to match the Apple M3 processors, it is enough to exceed Qualcomm.

< P > “So what further ? go rumors about the 3nm DUV knot using SAOP (self-aligned octuple patterning). Yes, it is madness. But madness & mdash; mdash; mdash; mdash; He died.