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> They have a desktop-sized 14nm EUV

Who falls for this crap? An ASML EUV machine costs over $100 million and is delivered in dozens of shipping containers, taking up 2 floors in a fab.

You're going to need really extraordinary evidence that the PRC has a "desktop sized EUV machine" if you want us to believe you.



They announced this during an industry conference last week. It’s entirely different tech to ASML’s.

This is the company/machine: http://lumi-universe.com/?list_27/84.html

You can check the dimensions there, max 80cm. This is only the EUV light source, not an entire wafer fab.


It is not the same kind of equipment. ASML machines use a 500 watt EUV source in order to be able to expose a few wafers per minute. The tabletop device has the output power listed as "1 uw-10 mw". This is a source intended of spectroscopy instrumentation, not for exposing wafers.


> This is only the EUV light source, not an entire wafer fab.

When we say "EUV machine" in the semiconductor context, it's pretty unambiguous that we're talking about a lithography machine using EUV and that can do, at least, ~120 300 mm wafers per hour.

As another comment explained, that machine you linked to is nothing like what we mean by "EUV machine", it's not even attempting to be a lithography tool.

At first I thought you were being willingly misleading but your wording suggests you're not, so I suggest binging Asianometry on YouTube if you'd like to get up to speed on the semi industry.




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