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China reportedly builds protype EUV light source

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What happened: On December 17, Reuters reported that a secret Chinese project to develop EUV lithography – tech mastered by Dutch firm ASML that’s key to advanced chipmaking – has produced a prototype extreme-ultraviolet light source.

Reliably generating EUV light is a difficult first step in achie...