China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions

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China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions​

Gareth Corfield
Sat, December 31, 2022 at 12:16 AM GMT+7·3 min read

FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen working on the final assembly of ASML's TWINSCAN NXE:3400B semiconductor lithography tool with its panels removed, in Veldhoven, Netherlands, in this picture taken April 4, 2019. Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie/ASML/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo - ASML/REUTERSMore
China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.
Patent filings reveal that Huawei has made advances in a crucial method of chip manufacture, raising the prospect that the company could eventually start making some of the smallest and most powerful microchips by itself.
Such a development would allow Beijing to skirt Western sanctions. Washington, Brussels and London are currently all blocking access to advanced Western-made computer chips in China over fears the Communist nation could develop new military capabilities beyond the power of Western armies to resist.

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China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions​

Gareth Corfield
Sat, December 31, 2022 at 12:16 AM GMT+7·3 min read

FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen working on the final assembly of ASML's TWINSCAN NXE:3400B semiconductor lithography tool with its panels removed, in Veldhoven, Netherlands, in this picture taken April 4, 2019. Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie/ASML/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo - ASML/REUTERSMore
China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.
Patent filings reveal that Huawei has made advances in a crucial method of chip manufacture, raising the prospect that the company could eventually start making some of the smallest and most powerful microchips by itself.
Such a development would allow Beijing to skirt Western sanctions. Washington, Brussels and London are currently all blocking access to advanced Western-made computer chips in China over fears the Communist nation could develop new military capabilities beyond the power of Western armies to resist.

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The Huawei patent filing, made in November but only revealed to the world this month, describes a way of using ultraviolet light to etch a computer chip’s inner workings into a piece of silicon.
Using so-called extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) technology, transistors can be created that are just nanometres in size. The most powerful computer chips contain millions of transistors and advances in miniaturisation allow for the creation of hugely powerful chips.
The highly specialised technique has only ever been cracked by Netherlands-based company ASML. A €208bn business, ASML’s chipmaking secrets are jealously guarded by both the company and the West.
Dutch foreign trade minister Liesje Schreinemacher told the country’s parliament in November that ASML’s chip technology was a jewel in the country’s crown to be protected.

China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions

China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.

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China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions

China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.

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China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions​

Gareth Corfield
Sat, December 31, 2022 at 12:16 AM GMT+7·3 min read

FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen working on the final assembly of ASML's TWINSCAN NXE:3400B semiconductor lithography tool with its panels removed, in Veldhoven, Netherlands, in this picture taken April 4, 2019. Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie/ASML/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo - ASML/REUTERSMore
China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.
Patent filings reveal that Huawei has made advances in a crucial method of chip manufacture, raising the prospect that the company could eventually start making some of the smallest and most powerful microchips by itself.
Such a development would allow Beijing to skirt Western sanctions. Washington, Brussels and London are currently all blocking access to advanced Western-made computer chips in China over fears the Communist nation could develop new military capabilities beyond the power of Western armies to resist.

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China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions​

Gareth Corfield
Sat, December 31, 2022 at 12:16 AM GMT+7·3 min read

FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen working on the final assembly of ASML's TWINSCAN NXE:3400B semiconductor lithography tool with its panels removed, in Veldhoven, Netherlands, in this picture taken April 4, 2019. Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie/ASML/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo - ASML/REUTERSMore
China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.
Patent filings reveal that Huawei has made advances in a crucial method of chip manufacture, raising the prospect that the company could eventually start making some of the smallest and most powerful microchips by itself.
Such a development would allow Beijing to skirt Western sanctions. Washington, Brussels and London are currently all blocking access to advanced Western-made computer chips in China over fears the Communist nation could develop new military capabilities beyond the power of Western armies to resist.

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The Huawei patent filing, made in November but only revealed to the world this month, describes a way of using ultraviolet light to etch a computer chip’s inner workings into a piece of silicon.
Using so-called extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) technology, transistors can be created that are just nanometres in size. The most powerful computer chips contain millions of transistors and advances in miniaturisation allow for the creation of hugely powerful chips.
The highly specialised technique has only ever been cracked by Netherlands-based company ASML. A €208bn business, ASML’s chipmaking secrets are jealously guarded by both the company and the West.
Dutch foreign trade minister Liesje Schreinemacher told the country’s parliament in November that ASML’s chip technology was a jewel in the country’s crown to be protected.

China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions

China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.

finance.yahoo.com

China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions

China has cracked a microchip design method previously only mastered by the West, in a challenge that could undermine sanctions.

finance.yahoo.com

This article states that Hyawei filed a patent. That means it's got ways to go before a production version can be created. While a production version will be created, there will need to be an entire manufacturing system and process that will be built around these latest chips. China has the industrial and scientific base to do this, so the faster the better.