China's reverse-engineered Frankenstein EUV chipmaking tool hasn't produced a single chip — sanctions-busting experiment is still years away from becoming operational

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Summary

A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse‑engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML’s EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company’s entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary …