Vavli schreef op 28 december 2022 06:31:
Het enige dat het Westen bereikt met zijn handelsoorlog tegen China, is dat het Chinese bedrijven zo verplicht om sneller innovatief aan de slag te gaan.
Huawei zegt dat het een EUV heeft ontwikkeld en wacht nu op goedkeuring van het patent. Zodra dat in orde is kan China zelf deze EUV wereldwijd gaan verkopen. Allicht niet in de VS en Europa maar de rest van de wereld zal maar wat graag orders plaatsen en dat is dus 4/5 van de wereldmarkt.
The world's only current EUV manufacturer, Dutch firm ASML, filed a similar patent in 2016. But both patents differ in the way light is used in the EUV process. Additionally, Huawei is believed to be working on a way to "bypass" lithography by using optoelectronic wafers and other innovations.
Huawei's work on lithography is extremely important to the company and China. If Huawei can patent its own EUV technology, it will be able to help Chinese chip foundries produce cutting-edge chips. This would help the country get closer to its goal of becoming self-sufficient in semiconductors. More importantly to fans of Huawei's handsets, it would allow Huawei to offer 5G as a native feature on its phones while equipping them with the most powerful and energy-efficient SoCs available.
While Huawei says that it is "back in the game," it still is going to take time for the patent to be issued an an EUV machine built by Huawei. If the company can conme up with a way to bypass the lithography process, that would be the time for Samsung and Apple to start worrying.