China’s Atomic Gamble for AI Supremacy
Reports surfaced this week confirming what many industry observers had long suspected but feared to articulate: China has launched a “Manhattan Project” for semiconductors. This massive, state-backed initiative has a singular, existential goal—to reverse-engineer the ultra-complex lithography machines currently monopolized by the Dutch firm ASML. By cracking the code on Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) technology, Beijing…