Is it possible for BYD to conquer 7 nm chips and mask aligner and surpass ASML?

It is impossible to surpass ASML. At present, there are many companies that can design and develop 7-nanometer chips. With BYD's technical ability, it should not be a problem. As for BYD's research and development of mask aligner, that's just talk, so you don't have to take it seriously.

China once asked a German industrial expert about the manufacturing of high-end mask aligner. The expert said that it will take only a few months for China to imitate high-end mask aligner from the perspective of industrial technology capability, but it will take at least seven or eight years for China to build high-end mask aligner with independent intellectual property rights.

This gentleman admits that China is a country that has completely industrialized and has the most complete industrial system in the world. It will be a piece of cake if China forcibly imitates ASML's high-end mask aligner without considering intellectual property rights and international reputation! However, if China wants to legally develop the electronic information industry, China cannot infringe the intellectual property rights of ASML.

As the high-end mask aligner of ASML involves tens of thousands of intellectual property rights, and the high-end mask aligner of ASML occupies the best technical path, it will be very difficult for China to manufacture high-end mask aligner with independent intellectual property rights.

without seven or eight years, China can't solve the problem of independent intellectual property rights of high-end mask aligner, and it can't bypass the technical path of ASML high-end mask aligner! This is also the reason why ASML executives once clamored that even if all the drawings, technical parameters and manufacturing process of ASML high-end lithography were handed over to China, China could not build a high-end mask aligner! In fact, the United States has nothing to do with Huawei's 5G technology, which is also the same reason.

In view of the technical difficulty in developing high-end mask aligner, BYD obviously does not have such technical strength.

If BYD wants to build a high-end mask aligner, there are probably only two ways: one is to spend huge sums of money to acquire ASML； wholly; Second, spend money to buy ASML's technology patents, and then start to manufacture high-end mask aligner. However, from the current situation, BYD is almost impossible to succeed!