🚨 BREAKING 🇨🇳 | The Chip Monopoly Is Being Challenged
China has reportedly built a prototype EUV lithography machine — the most critical and complex tool needed to manufacture advanced semiconductor chips, according to Reuters.
Until now, ASML held a near-total monopoly on EUV technology. Each machine costs around $250M and is essential for producing chips used by Nvidia, AMD, and manufactured by TSMC, Intel, and Samsung.
🔥 What’s New:
Prototype developed in Shenzhen
Successfully generated EUV light
Currently under testing
No working chips yet
2028–2030 cited as target timeline
⚡ Why It’s Huge:
Part of a 6-year state-backed program
Compared to China’s “Manhattan Project” for semiconductors
Former ASML engineers reportedly involved
Huawei coordinating across labs and suppliers
🎯 Goal:
Build advanced chips on 100% China-made machines, fully independent from U.S. and allied supply chains.
🧠 Big Picture:
If successful, this could:
Break ASML’s EUV dominance
Reshape global chip geopolitics
Impact AI, crypto mining hardware, and high-performance computing
Accelerate the tech decoupling between China and the U.S.
⏳ Still early — but the direction is clear.
The chip war just entered a new phase.
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