SMIC wants to be better equipped against TSMC and is planning a 9 billion US dollar factory building near Shanghai. The capacity is said to be 100,000 wafers per month and would thus come close to TSMC's Gigafabs. But the question remains: Who equips the fab? No newest machines because of trade boycott The technologies to equip such modern semiconductor factories are not available in China. Import bans on the part of the USA affect, among other things, ASML as the world's largest factory equipment supplier, but also Applied Material and Lam Research. The most modern lithography systems and tools…