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Two important facts that lots of folks seem to miss. The extreme ultraviolet process was created by and remains owned by the US DOE and LLNL. The US wields enor
by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Two important facts that lots of folks seem to miss. The extreme ultraviolet process was created by and remains owned by the US DOE and LLNL. The US wields enormous control over ASML because of this fact. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/ebooks/PM/EUV-Lithography/2/EUV-LLC-An-Historical-Perspective/10.1117/3.769214.ch2 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/ebooks/PM/EUV-Lithography...
The EUV process is an insane rube goldberg physics "hack" that makes these machines very far from something you can just churn out model T style.