Huawei Admits China Lacks EUV Hardware, Bets on Radical ‘Logic Folding’ Architecture to Outsmart U.S. Sanctions

Huawei Technologies Co. executive Richard Yu acknowledged that China remains reliant on older Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) lithography while domestic research teams race to build native Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) equipment, revealing that the telecommunications giant is pivoting to a radical system-level “logic folding” architecture to bypass Western semiconductor sanctions. Speaking during an international media roundtable, Yu, Huawei’s executive director and chairman of its consumer business group, stated that while EUV machines remain essential for fabricating advanced microchips, Huawei is deploying system engineering workarounds to compensate for blocked access to cutting-edge fabrication nodes. The technical disclosure follows the launch of Huawei’s flagship…