China just pushed the semiconductor fight into a new chapter. Inside a sealed compound in Shenzhen, scientists built a prototype EUV lithography machine that Washington has tried to block for years.

A report from Reuters claims that scientists in China have created a prototype of a machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering artificial intelligence.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China has built and begun testing a prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machine in a covert government program, a move that could challenge Western control over the ...