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From the text: Amid the recent chip shortage, triggered by the pandemic’s economic shock waves, ASML’s products have become central to a geopolitical struggle b
by abbassi 5y ago
From the text: Amid the recent chip shortage, triggered by the pandemic’s economic shock waves, ASML’s products have become central to a geopolitical struggle between the US and China, with Washington making it a high priority to block China's access to the machines. The US government has successfully pressured the Dutch not to grant the export licenses needed to send the machines to China, and ASML says it has shipped none to the country.
- kleton 5y agoIn fairness, ASML, the US government, and SMIC all know that SMIC would buy exactly one of these before making their own.
- drlobster 5y agoHaving an EUV scanner in your possession is not even half the battle. Building the mirror systems alone is an enormous effort taking thousands of engineers at Zeiss. Not just the figuring and coating of the mirrors but the metrology for them takes a bunch of bespoke systems developed by Zeiss.