China has achieved a breakthrough in developing technology crucial to the AI boom, overcoming US efforts to limit Beijing\u2019s access to the systems.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s chip giant Shanghai Yuliangsheng has started production of deep ultraviolet lithography machines, according to The Information, a tech publication.<\/p>\n
These machines, which can reach the size of a double-decker bus, use high-powered lasers to imprint designs on to silicon wafers, which are used to make chips.<\/p>\n
Until recently, only Western companies and allies of the US had the capability to produce these machines.<\/p>\n
The most advanced versions of the technology have largely been the preserve of companies such as Dutch giant ASML and Japan\u2019s Nikon.<\/p>\n
These machines have been cut off from China by US export controls, preventing their production of advanced chips as Washington seeks to slow the development of AI in the country.<\/p>\n
Semiconductor stocks plunged on the report. Trading was briefly halted on South Korea\u2019s benchmark Kospi index after it suffered a collapse of nearly 11pc overnight, following a bleak day on Wall Street.<\/p>\n
Advanced semiconductors, such as those used in AI chips, rely on minuscule circuits, invisible to the naked eye. They can only be manufactured by directing tiny lasers onto microchip wafers, a process known as ultraviolet lithography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has achieved a breakthrough in developing technology crucial to the AI boom, overcoming US efforts to limit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,19226,72,114,8847,61,60,1284,80],"class_list":["post-572421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-big-tech","tag-business","tag-china","tag-companies","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-standard","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}