A better title would be "New EUV light source built in Shenzhen". Light source said to be working, not fabbing chips yet. Few technical details in the Reuters article.

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nullhole 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

They built the project, the bomb hasn't gone boom yet though.

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		There's a lot of machinery for moving the wafers around precisely in vacuum. But that's ordinary engineering, although the speeds at which ASML moves wafers are impressive.

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jiggawatts 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The light source is the “easy” bit. The mirrors, masks, and the rest of the machine are all individually as difficult if not more so.

The wafers have to be positioned to nanometer accuracy repeatedly and at high speed! It’s hard to believe that’s even possible, let alone commercially viable.