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ASML have a defacto monopoly. These machines being this complicated is a giant plus for them. edit: To give an example from another industry, Dave from EEVBlog
by cf1241290841 3y ago
ASML have a defacto monopoly. These machines being this complicated is a giant plus for them.
edit: To give an example from another industry, Dave from EEVBlog has a nice teardown for a DLP projector from the upper price segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3eGqjV9yG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3eGqjV9yG0
You can argue that an important design criteria building this was often the pricetag of the end product.
- baq 3y agoOTOH the reason for their monopoly isn’t for the lack of trying from the competition… it’s amazing they got EUV to work at commercial scale.
- cf1241290841 3y agoMost definitively, every new generation they put out is a technological marvel.