China May Be Constructing EUV Lithography Machines on a Massive Scale

Under US pressure, China is compelled to aggressively pursue creative solutions like SSMB-EUV. This could be a game changer if China makes it work.

Over the past few days, news on the possibility of China circumventing US sanctions through an unexpectedly innovative approach called SSMB-EUV has generated substantial public buzz in China. With this cutting-edge technological breakthrough, China could construct an "EUV factory" to replace ASML's individual EUV lithography machines. But is this feasible?

The "EUV factory" pictures circulating online are actually images of the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) facility of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.