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The research wasn't done by them — it was paid for by the US gov't and developed at US labs. ASML were given the research knowing that it could work.
by tonyhb 3y ago
The research wasn't done by them — it was paid for by the US gov't and developed at US labs. ASML were given the research knowing that it could work.
- _fizz_buzz_ 3y agoThat is a bit of an oversimplification of what happened. A lot of basic research was done by US labs. But it took ASML almost 20 years to convert this research into a production ready system and nobody else succeeded. And they also got some big research grants from the EU[1] [1]https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/28160 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/28160
- janc_ 3y agoIIRC there is also some IMEC research in those ASML machines (which might also have been partially EU funded)?
- ahartmetz 3y agoThe US had an EUV project that ran like 2-3 years and cost a few millions. ASML spent two decades and billions on it. That's like saying that the Manhattan project was given to the US by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn.