Although Chinese companies can no longer get advanced chipmaking tools from American, Japanese, or Dutch companies, they can still get advanced fab equipment from South Korean companies. A case in point is Nextin, a South Korean maker of optical wafer inspection equipment, which is expanding its presence in the Chinese semiconductor market, according to DigiTimes and The Elec reports.
Nextin is said to have signed a deal with an undisclosed Chinese client for KRW7 billion ($5.39 million) for one Aegis 3 machine, according to DigiTimes. This model is claimed to offer 30% faster inspection speeds compared to the Aegis 2, and a computing performance of 1.47 TFLOPS .
