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I doubt they have anything viable right now. Having actually watched these EUV machines get installed, seen the insides up close and personal, and talked to the techs about them extensively; there is a reason nobody else has made them yet. They're incredibly complex, requiring extreme care and precision, a ton of power, and they are fickle. I was at GF Fab 8 when they got their EUV machines; it was a process, I'll tell you that much. Custom cranes had to be installed in the fab just to facilitate any sort of meaningful work on them, and they were down a lot.
i absolutely believe you that the technology of these old machines is much too complex and this is an argument why the Chinese have to make a better technology to replace it :
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/03/10/news-chinas-homegrown-euv-machines-rumored-for-q3-trial-production-spelling-trouble-for-asml/