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Advanced chip in Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone produced on ASML DUV machines: sources
- China’s SMIC used ASML’s less-advanced DUV machines together with tools from other companies to make Huawei’s 5G-capable chip, sources say
- ASML will be restricted from January to ship some of its most advanced DUV lithography machines to China
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China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) used equipment from ASML Holding to manufacture an advanced processor for Huawei Technologies' new 5G smartphones that alarmed the US, according to people familiar with the matter.
In a suggestion that export restrictions on Europe’s most valuable tech company may have come too late to stem China’s advances in chip making, ASML’s so-called immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) machines were used in combination with tools from other companies to make the chip for Huawei, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing information that is not public.
ASML declined to comment. There is no suggestion that their sales violated export restrictions.
The firm’s shares dropped as much as 2.1 per cent in Amsterdam after the report, and were trading 0.6 per cent lower at €558.5 (US$591) apiece as of 3.54pm local time.
The US has been working with Japan and the Netherlands to prevent China from accessing advanced semiconductor technology of the kind demonstrated in the 7-nanometre chip that powers Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro series to curb the country’s technological advancement and prevent it from gaining a military edge.
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