A sprawling industrial complex being built by Huawei near Shanghai will be used to research and develop chip-making equipment to help the tech giant overcome restrictions imposed on it by the United States, local sources said.
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China's technology giant is building an R&D center in Qingpu District, Shanghai, which is scheduled to be operational in June. This is said to cover 2 million square meters (21 million square feet) and will employ nearly 30,000 technical staff.
The site is expected to conduct research on technologies for sectors such as wireless networks and smartphones, and according to Nikkei Asia will also be the site of its plan to develop and build lithography machines for the production of cutting-edge chips.
The Nikkei report also claims that Huawei has successfully hired a number of engineers who have worked with leading global suppliers of chip manufacturing equipment, such as Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA and Netherlands-based ASML, which is currently the sole supplier of the most advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography.
