{"id":75349,"date":"2025-12-19T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:44:32","slug":"china-advances-on-its-ai-manhattan-project-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75349\/","title":{"rendered":"China advances on its AI &#8216;Manhattan Project:&#8217; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Chinese scientists have prototyped a machine capable of producing powerful AI chips despite Western efforts to prevent such advances, a Reuters investigation revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The extreme ultraviolet lithography system, which etches tiny circuits onto silicon wafers, was built by former engineers of Dutch semiconductor giant ASML <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:who worked under fake names;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">who worked under fake names<\/a> and used parts from older ASML machines; one prominent China watcher suggested it was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/niubi\/status\/2001326094428021157\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:massive security failure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">massive security failure<\/a>\u201d by Dutch authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The project, which aims to produce working chips by 2028, marks a major breakthrough in Beijing\u2019s quest for semiconductor self-sufficiency, described by some as China\u2019s own Manhattan Project. Investors appear bullish on China\u2019s homegrown processors: Shares in a chip startup <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/ipo\/chinese-ai-chip-startup-metax-surges-on-trading-debut?utm_campaign=IC_asia_daily_free&amp;utm_source=NA_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=article_link&amp;del_type=1&amp;pub_date=202512171230000900&amp;seq_num=9&amp;si=82d09493-5037-4e24-a7a7-3333c7c932e6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:soared 693% in its trading debut;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">soared 693% in its trading debut<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/jd-capelouto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:J.D. Capelouto;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">J.D. Capelouto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have prototyped a machine capable of producing powerful AI chips despite Western efforts to prevent such&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37393,37446,75,84,83,1924,9,24,63,37861,37862],"class_list":["post-75349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-asml","tag-chinese-scientists","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-project","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tiny-circuits","tag-western-efforts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}