Chinese chip start-up aims to build 5-nanometre equivalent chips with…

Shanghai-based Yuanjiwei has launched an 8-inch pilot production line for 2D semiconductors and claims it will produce 5-nanometre-equivalent chips without EUV lithography by 2029, marking a shift from laboratory research to manufacturing validation amid US export controls on advanced chipmaking equipment. If you make materials, tools, or equipment for chip manufacturing, China just moved 2D semiconductors from theory to production scale - and they're doing it without the EUV machines they can't buy from you. Your customers in Asia will soon have a domestic alternative that skips your most expensive step.