Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines to get China far closer than previously thought to independence from foreign tech

If this were a game of Civilization, we'd certainly be moving into the "Future Era", which the game's wiki describes as containing "marvels beyond the dreams of ancient prophets, and terrors more fearsome than any apocalypse." I mean, we literally shine extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light created by molten tin at 50,000 times or more per second to trace miniscule circuits onto silicon wafers. All in the name of beaming Netflix and games into our eyeballs from increasingly small devices with better battery life.