Japan Turns Photoresist into ‘Little Steel Balls’: Is China’s Chip Industry Facing a Stranglehold or a Counterattack?
First, a fun fact: Making chips is like baking a cake, where the photolithography machine is the oven and the photoresist is the baking paper. Without the paper, the cake will burn at the bottom. Currently, 90% of the world’s high-end “baking paper” is printed in Japanese, and the finest types are measured in individual … Read more