Comments by "JX" (@J_X999) on "As EU Woos Xi Jinping, Italy To Scrap China BRI Deal For Semiconductor Deal With Arch-Rival Taiwan?" video.

@TheUltimateOpportunist They can now. They've recently developed 14nm EDA software and they've bought the tools needed to make them. We all knew that was coming, it's just the barrier of sub-7nm.
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@TheUltimateOpportunist Yep, the problem is that semiconductors can't shrink endlessly. I've talked with many people who work for the chip industry, mostly in circuit design, and they all said that once TSMC gets past 1nm, the development will slow dramatically due to the physical limits of silicon. Each generation will be more time consuming and expensive then their predecessors. This may give China time to catch up. The bottleneck is EUV. China has everything apart from EUV. Huawei filed an EUV patent, but it's just a case of getting the thousands of parts to actually make it, which will require a lot of investment.
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