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willco

Is anything less than state-of-the-art feasible?

Feasible, yes. Basically by moving used toolsets and maybe facilities of an existing fab.

However, your are correct. The most modern used equipment allowed to ship to Red China currently has been .18 micron 200mm tools. (From TSMC).

Any 200mm/130nm tooling by 2010 could probably get approval. Gossip has 300mm/90nm with a chipset-process by 2010. Sounds like a stretch to me, although not completely impossible (i.e. depending what China throws in this deal politically).

K.