[sjcoles]

Dead in the water without EUV just like OG Intel 10nm. The number of masks required to etch these chips without EUV makes it a non-starter for anything with a larger area than the BTC mining chip that they produce.

I am very curious the yield and number of masks required.

This article outlines struggles Intel had with multipatterning and 10nm on DUV.

https://www.eetimes.com/intels-10nm-node-past-present-and-fu...

E: Furthermore, I don't think SMIC has any packaging technology that would allow them to leverage chiplets.

[rowanG077]

It's not like EUV is magic pixie just ordained by the gods to be unachievable by china. I would be surprised if china doesn't have EUV within 10 years.

[anhphamfmr]

EUV technology was proven possible in the 80s. However to make it happen and comercialize took the West a few decades.

[HyperSane]

It took 40 years to actually make EUV commercially viable.

[rowanG077]

I dont see how that is relevant. If anything that leads me to believe it will be much faster then 10 years since China can just follow the known working path.