Po poročanju Reuters je Kitajski uspelo to, kar so ameriške administracije poskusile na vsak način preprečiti – kitajski razvojni ekpi, okrepljeni z “upokojenimi” razvojniki iz ASML, je v popolni tajnosti uspelo letos razviti lastno najbolj napredno – EUV – litografijo (tehnologijo za proizvodnjo najbolj naprednih čipov). Projekt je koordiniral Huawei. Ob tem so prijavili še 16 patentov na tem področju. Do 2028 (najkasneje 2030) naj bi stekla proizvodnja najbolj naprednih čipov na tej tehnologiji.

S tem so ZDA izgubile zadnjo možnost izsiljevanja oziroma omejevanja kitajskega tehnološkega, gospodarskega in vojaškega vzpona na globalni vrh. 

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance, Reuters has learned.

Completed in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly an entire factory floor. It was built by a team of former engineers from Dutch semiconductor giant ASML who reverse-engineered the company’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines or EUVs, according to two people with knowledge of the project.

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In April, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said that China would need “many, many years” to develop such technology. But the existence of this prototype, reported by Reuters for the first time, suggests China may be years closer to achieving semiconductor independence than analysts anticipated.

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The breakthrough marks the culmination of a six-year government initiative to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency, one of President Xi Jinping’s highest priorities. While China’s semiconductor goals have been public, the Shenzhen EUV project has been conducted in secret, according to the people.

The project falls under the country’s semiconductor strategy, which state media has identified as being run by Xi Jinping confidant Ding Xuexiang, who heads the Communist Party’s Central Science and Technology Commission.

Chinese electronics giant Huawei plays a key role coordinating a web of companies and state research institutes across the country involving thousands of engineers, according to the two people and a third source.

The people described it as China’s version of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. wartime effort to develop the atomic bomb.

“The aim is for China to eventually be able to make advanced chips on machines that are entirely China-made,” one of the people said. ” China wants the United States 100% kicked out of its supply chains.”

Vir: Reuters