You underestimate the sheer complexity of it. You’re talking $1B, I am talking a blank check. That’s probably 100s of different research teams, each with a $?B, whose “research” would have to industrialized.
Then there’s integration and SW. Not to mention performance, metrology, diagnostics.
Now you have to actually integrate these new tools into a new leading node process. This by itself takes years, assuming you have the tools. China does have existing Immersion process nodes, but still.
Even with unlimited resources, I claim China can’t have EUV within 10 years. Maybe not even 20.
Then there’s integration and SW. Not to mention performance, metrology, diagnostics.
Now you have to actually integrate these new tools into a new leading node process. This by itself takes years, assuming you have the tools. China does have existing Immersion process nodes, but still.
Even with unlimited resources, I claim China can’t have EUV within 10 years. Maybe not even 20.