The home country of semiconductor equipment maker ASML wants to protect its own economic interests.
In the 1980s, American policymakers saw Japanese chip makers as their biggest threat.
Despite roadblocks, China’s largest semiconductor maker has acquired technology and skills to produce the most advanced chips.
The EUV lithography machines are essential to producing modern chips. And the US has stopped China from acquiring them.
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can remove tin contamination from ultraviolet lithography machines manufactured by the Netherlands-based ASML, which is at the centre of the US-China chip war.
SMIC has developed a 7nm semiconductor, placing the Chinese behemoth in the league of Intel and others.
The move means that US companies will need to get a license to sell sophisticated technology to SMIC.
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