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Given the amount of money ASML is printing, they could easily build a decent fab that will over time compete directly with eg TSMC. But I doubt they have the ba

Given the amount of money ASML is printing, they could easily build a decent fab that will over time compete directly with eg TSMC. But I doubt they have the balls to compete against their customers, which is a shame. (by "easily", of course, I mean "super hard but possible"). If there's any European company that knows how to source and train people who can operate fabs, it's ASML.

amelius 5y ago
> But I doubt they have the balls to compete against their customers, which is a shame. Regulators will block this.
- skrebbel 5y ago
  Why? The EU very much wants to be able to make their own chips. The world is clearly moving towards each bloc wanting to be more self-sufficient.
  - amelius 5y ago
    There are other semiconductor plants in the EU.
Cthulhu_ 5y ago
Doesn't have to be ASML itself, they can branch off and start a company near it though and develop close ties to it and the local university.