TAIPEI — A Chinese semiconductor equipment maker linked to Huawei has been quietly developing a wide range of machines to replace offerings by ASML and other foreign rivals to help China resolve the most painful supply chain choke point created by U.S. export controls, Nikkei Asia has learned.
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 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.
