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TBH I'm glad it's not sold off. Europe has barely any large world leading companies in the digital sector. ASML is one of those world leaders. As for your amer
by est31 7y ago
TBH I'm glad it's not sold off. Europe has barely any large world leading companies in the digital sector. ASML is one of those world leaders.
As for your american influence point, I'd certainly prefer if a strong EU council would block the sale instead of our transatlantic partners, but EU council can't even prevent OBOR in central europe...
- joshuaissac 7y agoHow does preventing ASML from selling products to Chinese customers help it stay a world leader? A strong EU council would not block such sales.
- mtnGoat 7y agoif no one can sell to them, the Chinese market is a moot point. Sometimes national security interests supersede a single darling companies bottomline. Plus, considering the Chinese track record of stealing technology, if that machine goes to China, ASML wont be the only one making it in a couple years.
- yorwba 7y agoThe article is not about ASML getting sold, but about ASML selling (or rather, not selling) their product to customers in China.
- tomp 7y agoWe've learned in the past few years that Chinese will unscrupulously reverse engineer and/or steal any technology they can.
- yorwba 7y agoThe article says that ASML keeps selling earlier-generation equipment. Apparently, that can't be reverse-engineered and/or stolen as easily. (Or maybe just buying it is cheaper than going through all that hassle.)
- est31 7y agoOh thanks for pointing that out. I read that wrongly.