[spokeshave]

The designs for the high end chips are almost all American with some Japanese. The standard for these chips is around 5 nanometers.

1...Applied Materials (inventor of cluster tools) has a manufacturing facility in China

2..Also required to manufacture chips is ability to grow 12 inch diameter pure silicon crystal ingots from a single seed.

3..Now with the ingot...its necessary to slice it into discs.
This is done with a continuous wire thread around a mandrel that cuts off multiple discs at a time.
Discs then cored and broken into square or rectangular substrate

4..The resulting chip is manufactured in assembly plants mostly in Japan and South East Asia...called Back End manufacturing.

[rodguy911]

Is this the tyupe of setup going on inthe west on the 2 billion dollar chip making project?