China’s SMIC has reportedly produced 5nm chips without EUV using DUV and SAQP, signaling a bold shift in chipmaking amid ...

"BREAKING: China made 5nm chips without EUV ... to advanced deep ultraviolet (DUV) techniques and innovations like Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP), calling the result "Moore's Law ...

DUV works, but to hit 5nm, it requires a ton of additional patterning steps. That makes everything slower, more expensive, and much harder to produce. Clearly, neither we nor China should expect ...

Shenzhen-based SiCarrier unveiled new 5nm-capable fabrication tools at SEMICON China 2025. The company claims its proprietary deep ultraviolet (DUV) and non-optical process equipment ...

It has been reported that this corporation has registered a patent for DUV equipment processes that can replace EUV lithography equipment in the 5 NANO process.. Additionally, Huawei is reportedly ...

South China Morning Post notes that SiCarrier grabbed headlines in 2023 with a patent for making 5nm chips using DUV tools—a breakthrough linked to Huawei’s 7nm chip in the Mate 60 Pro. According to ...

SiCarrier bets on DUV for 5nm chips as SMIC's yield stalls at one ... The company has developed Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) to bypass EUV restrictions, though the added process ...