SMEE wants to be 'China's ASML.' But can it finally figure out how to 'print' semiconductor chips?
Illustration by Hanna Barczyk
In 2002, He Rongming set off for a globe-trotting technology tour. Flanked by a team of engineers from his newly formed company, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE), the then-40-year-old chief executive headed to Europe and the U.S. in order to learn all he could about photolithography, a crucial technology for manufacturing the semiconductor chips used in modern electronics.
He Rongming (center) speaks to Yu Zhengsheng (left), then Party Secretary of Shanghai, who visited SMEE's boot
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