China starts production of home-grown immersion DUV chipmaking tools

Posted by u1hcw9nx 1 hour ago

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Comment by u1hcw9nx 1 hour ago

>Despite the market reaction, analysts say the news is unlikely to impact ASML's earnings trajectory in the mid-term. "Producing a handful of immersion DUV tools is not the same as producing tools that can be used for high-volume manufacturing, where yield, overlay, throughput and reliability over thousands of wafer runs are what matter," JP Morgan Chase analysts wrote in a note on Tuesday.

Comment by DivingForGold 1 hour ago

Poo bear and his Chinese are "junkyard wars", cobbling together low tech trying to give the impression they are manufacturing cutting edge high tech. They always had a problem attempting to manufacture single crystal alloy jet turbine blades, they always had to buy Russian.

Comment by u1hcw9nx 1 hour ago

Have you not kept up with China in the last 10 years?

China is already in their third and fourth generation superallloys with DD6 and DD9 (nickel-based single-crystal superalloys). They are deployed in three different engines.

It's the same with DUV. Just 5 years ago they were 20 years behind. Now they are maybe 5 years behind. Maybe next 2-3 years they are still not getting the yield par with ASML but just watch.