There China requires technology to create 5G processors. We have seen the efforts of Huawei and – above all – of SMIC to get to produce the Kirin 9010 at 5nm, a sort of small miracle considering the limited means that companies in the Far Eastern country can access due to the ban imposed by the United States. To further speed up the process, something else is needed, and the Beijing government is aware of this, having recently expressed itself through the words of the Minister for Commerce Wang Wentao.
We hope that the Netherlands respects the trade pacts with China, the minister said in summary in front of his European alter ego, Geoffrey van Leeuwen. It’s the Netherlands itself crucial partner to focus onas a world leader in the field of photolithography for chip production. ASML Holdingbased in Veldhoven, is theonly supplier in the world of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. The problem is that since March 2023, relations between the Netherlands and China have more than cooled, with the ban on semiconductor production technology for China desired by the government in The Hague.
Now China is once again publicly asking that the Northern European country guarantee normal trade in lithography machinery, so as to complete the transition towards the most recent and advanced technologies. The new top of the range Huawei P70 will soon arrive on the market: initially it was thought it could be based on the Mate 60’s Kirin 9000s, but in recent days the rumor has emerged according to which SMIC would have succeeded in producing the new Kirin 9010 with productive at 5nm.
