{"id":324092,"date":"2025-12-19T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324092\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:35:08","slug":"how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-to-rival-the-west-in-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324092\/","title":{"rendered":"How China built its \u2018Manhattan Project\u2019 to rival the West in AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    SINGAPORE \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines (EUVs), according to two people with knowledge of the project.<\/p>\n<p>EUV machines sit at the heart of a technological Cold War. They use beams of extreme ultraviolet light to etch circuits thousands of times thinner than a human hair onto silicon wafers, currently a capability monopolized by the West. The smaller the circuits, the more powerful the chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2013 In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,127473,891,127472,4755,86,5134,127474,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-324092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asml","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chipmakers","14":"tag-huawei","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-u-s","17":"tag-u-s-china-relations","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}