By Che Pan and Laurie Chen<\/p>\n
BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) – Top Chinese semiconductor executives have called for a coordinated national effort to develop operational lithography systems during the 2026-2030 period, underlining Beijing’s push \u200cfor greater technological self-reliance.<\/p>\n
Zhao Jinrong, chairman of Naura Technology Group, Chen Nanxiang, chairman and president of \u200cYangtze Memory Technologies Corp, and Liu Weiping, chairman of Empyrean Technology, co-authored an article alongside leading semiconductor institutes that was published online late \u200bon Wednesday.<\/p>\n
They urged the government to pool national resources to integrate technological breakthroughs across institutions.<\/p>\n
Semiconductor manufacturing has emerged as a critical battleground in the China-U.S. technology rivalry since 2020, with Washington actively imposing restrictions to stop China from expanding advanced production capacity below 7-nanometer.<\/p>\n
“Taking lithography machines as an example, ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment has 100,000 components supplied by \u200c5,000 suppliers, with ASML merely serving \u2060as the integrator,” the executives wrote in Science and Technology Review, a journal affiliated with China’s science and technology professionals association.<\/p>\n
Dutch firm ASML Holding has become the world’s sole \u2060supplier of EUV lithography machines, essential for producing the most advanced semiconductor chips used to power smartphones, AI and advanced computing.<\/p>\n
“How to establish China’s ASML, so that the ‘integrated’ can jump out of the barrier of ‘fame and fortune’, and uniformly allocate \u200bfunds \u200band human resources is an urgent issue that relevant departments \u200bshould immediately formulate implementation plans,” they wrote.<\/p>\n
SEMICONDUCTOR \u200cAND NATIONAL STRATEGY<\/p>\n
China has made breakthrough progress at different institutions in EUV laser light sources, wafer stage, and optical systems, but integrating these components into a complete system remains a challenge that must be solved during the 15th five-year plan period, they said.<\/p>\n
The article also identified bottlenecks in electronic design automation (EDA) software, materials such as silicon wafers and electronic gases as key areas requiring national-level coordination.<\/p>\n
China designated semiconductors as a core pillar of its \u200cnascent industry alongside aviation, biotechnology and the low-altitude economy in its \u200blatest government work report released on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Chinese Premier Li Qiang highlighted \u200bbreakthroughs in domestically driven chip research and development \u200befforts during the report.<\/p>\n
The five-year roadmap made no specific mention of lithography machines, calling \u200cinstead to ‘improve advanced process manufacturing capabilities, accelerate the \u200bdevelopment of key equipment, materials \u200band components.<\/p>\n
China’s chip production capacity at the mature 28nm node and above accounts for 33% of global capacity and remains unrestricted in both manufacturing and design, according to an article published in Science \u200band Technology Review.<\/p>\n
In the same article, \u200cthe executives also called for setting up public platforms with the most advanced process capabilities to \u200bresearch, develop and verify the latest device structures, process equipment, components, materials and EDA software.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200bChe Pan and Laurie Chen; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Che Pan and Laurie Chen BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) – Top Chinese semiconductor executives have called for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3186,114,160411,1657,184,160415,160414,85,46,58270,160413,160412],"class_list":{"0":"post-323402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asml","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chen-nanxiang","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-empyrean-technology","14":"tag-euv","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-lithography-machines","18":"tag-memory-technologies-corp","19":"tag-naura-technology-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}