State-owned enterprises hold about 40% of SMIC's shares. SMIC's investment decisions may also be motivated by China's desire to build a self-reliant supply chain rather than maximizing profit. A mix ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed a solid-state deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser that emits 193nm light in lab conditions—a wavelength critical for semiconductor ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a light source that produces 193-nm DUV light, but it is years away from ...

Huawei, SMIC reportedly advancing LDP lithography, eye 3Q25 trial, 2026 rollout China is making significant strides in ...

Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in a matter of months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race ...

Many conclude from this that China could soon be producing chips using highly complex extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology. This would be a huge success for the country, as so far only ...

There is much excitement about the semiconductor industry moving to 28nm and 20nm process technology. For a majority of products, however, it will be several years before these leading-edge process ...

Using this first tool we will be able to explore its viability for manufacturing. MAPPER’s solution is a serious candidate to become the future lithography standard.” MAPPER’s technology MAPPER ...

Soft lithography is a fabrication technique used to create micro- and nanoscale patterns. Developed in the early 1990s by George M. Whitesides and colleagues, it simplifies pattern formation by using ...

Intel has started using two leading-edge ASML High-NA Twinscan EXE:5000 EUV lithography tools, the company revealed on Monday at an industry conference, Reuters reports. The company uses these ...

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