News New chip crunch looming? Booming demand from Chinese fabs causing shortage of critical photomask element

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Rising demand from Chinese chip designers is fueling a global shortage of photomasks, a critical component to chipmaking.

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"Photomasks are transparent chunks of quartz"

Was this article written by a technology reporter or a local county newspaper reporter? I quit reading right there.

 

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"Photomasks are transparent chunks of quartz"

Was this article written by a technology reporter or a local county newspaper reporter? I quit reading right there.

Why so picky? I had no idea what they were made from. This is a general audience tech site, not tailored to engineers or covering just semiconductor production.

Anton has been covering the semiconductor business for at least a decade, here and at Anandtech (and possibly elsewhere). It's possible he's gotten feedback to try and make his articles more approachable, as they can often be dense with jargon.