SMIC used gear from pplied Materials and Lam Research to manufacture an advanced 7-nanometer chip for Huawei in 2023.
chip equipment suppliers including Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc and Naura Technology Group Co have been trying to catch up with their American peers, but their offerings are still not as comprehensive or sophisticated. China’s top lithography system developer Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group Co still lags a few generations behind what industry leader ASML is capable of.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-08/huawei-chip-breakthrough-used-tech-from-two-us-gear-suppliers?srnd=homepage-asia…