If this were a game of Civilization, we'd certainly be moving into the "Future Era", which the game's wiki describes as containing "marvels beyond the dreams of ancient prophets, and terrors more fearsome than any apocalypse." I mean, we literally shine extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light created by molten tin at 50,000 times or more per second to trace miniscule circuits onto silicon wafers. All in the name of beaming Netflix and games into our eyeballs from increasingly small devices with better battery life. And the Western civilisation isn't the only one to broach the Future Era and have this capability, it now seems.
According to two Reuters sources, China now has a prototype EUV chipmaking machine. It's not yet produced a working chip—that's anticipated to happen in 2028 by the Chinese government and more likely to be 2030—but it is apparently creating EUV light. The light source being one of (admittedly quite a few) technical marvels of the EUV machine today.
