China's SiCarrier emerges as challenger to ASML, other chip tool titans

How fast can China catch up?

"... Shenzhen SiCarrier Technologies, backed by the Shenzhen government, has been developing equipment in chip fabrication and has set machines from companies such as ASML, Applied Materials and Lam Research as its benchmark, sources briefed on the matter said. The machines it is working on involve lithography, chemical vapor deposition, measurement, physical vapor deposition, etching and atomic layer deposition, all fields that are currently dominated by companies from the Netherlands, U.S. and Japan, they said. SiCarrier has been working closely with Huawei's growing team of specialists in chip production and chip equipment making, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter said. ..."

China's SiCarrier emerges as challenger to ASML, other chip tool titans - Nikkei Asia "Huawei-linked machine maker aims to overcome key bottleneck from U.S. export curbs"