The patent from Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment is still under review, but producing EUV tools in China would break a monopoly held by ASML.
  • IHave69XiBucks
    10·
    6 days ago

    Maybe im just a radical, but if the US is gonna sanction China what reason does China have to respect foreign patents? Just copy the tech?

    • Sodium_nitride
      4·
      5 days ago

      Copying tech is not so easy, especially when much of high technology is designed with preventing such copying in mind (thanks capitalism for spending effort on important matters such as slowing down technological adoption).

  • Che's Motorcycle
    8·
    6 days ago

    Am I reading this right? They’ve had EUV for more than a year now, but can’t use it due to patent review?

    A newly revealed patent from Chinese lithography systems maker Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE) shows how domestic firms could progress in the local advanced lithography tools market despite US sanctions.

    The “extreme ultraviolet [EUV] radiation generators and lithography equipment” patent, filed in March 2023, was published publicly on Tuesday and is still being vetted by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, according to a record from company registry website Qichacha.