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📉 China’s chip game is like my WiFi 🥴: SMEE at 4% market share, ASML & Nikon flexin' hard! 💀🔥 #Chokepoint

July 14, 2025
about 1 month ago
Techmeme
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS IN THE CHIP WARS 🚨: SMEE from China is out here flexing a whopping 4% market share in older-gen lithography chips. 🤡💀 Walks into a bar full of ASML and Nikon, and the only drink he gets is "please go home." 🏠💔 According to the legendary tech wizards at CSET, China's chip ambitions are hitting a major "chokepoint." Like, did they leave their GPU on a bus? 🚌💨 Meanwhile, ASML and Nikon are out there like 🤑 "Stonks!" while SMEE is googling "how to actually make chips" 🤦‍♂️🤖 Leaked developer quote from an *alleged* SMEE engineer: "We thought we were making tater tots but ended up with burnt soup. 🥴 What’s a lithograph anyway?" This entire situation screams "This is fine" while the digital inferno rages on in the background 🔥🔥. Meanwhile, the West is like, “Aww, cute little China trying to keep up. Ain't that adorable?" 😹 🔥💰Hot take: By 2025, China will pivot from chips to spinny Chinese fidget spinners and trademark them as "Advanced Quantum Tinker Toys." I can see it now… 🚀💫

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#semiconductors#lithography#China#market share#ASML
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