37 high-end DUV lithography machines!ASML officially announced that the export authority of 7nm lithography machine has been revoked.
The lithography machine is indeed very good and powerful, but unfortunately it has become a big bargaining chip for the United States to suppress China's scientific and technological development.
This "crown jewel of Western industry", composed of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of parts, works in tandem at the nano level, and controls its production.
But when Lao Mei, the big brother of the capitalist world, asks, you promise to agree, and you have to agree if you don't agree.
As a result, ASML in the Netherlands recently officially announced that the export authority of 7nm lithography machine was completely revoked.
The Chinese are really not surprised by this resultAlthough we once had to rely on ASML's lithography machine, we finally understood that the core technology should not be bought, bought, or bought
The US has banned and banned it, and the lithography machine that can give China is getting worse and worse.
Today's ASML has monopolized the world's highest-end lithography machines, and even the shipments of low-end lithography machines are as high as 90%, which can be said to be the lifeblood of global chip development.
However, the United States has a paper "Wassenaar Agreement", and China can no longer buy ASML's EUV lithography machine.
Then there is the "US-Japan-Netherlands Semiconductor Agreement" in 2023, and even mid-to-high-end DUV lithography machines are banned from being sold to China.
In order to maintain the huge Chinese consumer market, ASML made a rather "compromise" statement to the United States, agreeing to impose a ban on China, but last year it won a shipment license for several months.
As a result, Chinese companies have a chance to breathe, and in the third quarter of 2023, they purchased ASML lithography machines in large quantities, accounting for 46% of ASML's revenue.
Now in 2024, the boots have finally landed, and ASML officially announced that the export authority of the two 7nm lithography machines has been revoked, and it may not be able to continue to export advanced DUV products to the mainland in the future.
Now Chinese companies can mainly obtain NXT: 1980DI lithography machine with a resolution of 38nm, with multiple ** manufacturing technology or can manufacture 7nm process chips.
What about Chinese chips?
Many people speculate whether China's chip manufacturing will enter a vacuum as a resultWill a large number of domestic chip manufacturing production lines be forced to stop?
First of all, before the full landing of the US chip sanctions, Chinese companies took the opportunity to introduce a large number of lithography machines from the Netherlands, according to ASML data, 1,400 lithography machines have been located in Chinese mainland, which has made sufficient semiconductor equipment reserves for China's chip production.
The second is China's efforts to accelerate the domestic self-development of lithography machines.
Regardless of the cost of capital investment, tens of thousands of semiconductor researchers are the real magic weapon for us to face one US chip sanction after another.
Something. In any case, what the US is doing is harming others and not benefiting itself.
In 2023 and 2022, the total amount of the global semiconductor industry has fallen by about 30%. The U.S. is pressing forward step by step in the field of lithography machines, damaging the global industrial chain.
If the global industrial chain finally breaks down, it will eventually be China's domestic technology chain that will take root from its "corpse". List of high-quality authors