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Lots of people have said it before. ASML bought Silicon Valley Group after ASML was not granted an EUV license for whatever reason along with a couple of famili
by wil421 3y ago
Lots of people have said it before. ASML bought Silicon Valley Group after ASML was not granted an EUV license for whatever reason along with a couple of familiar Japanese companies. EUV LLC is owned by the DOE/US government and others in a private/public consortium.
In the 2000s ASML bought Silicon Valley Group (SVG) to develop EUV lithography. Now ASML has to abide by the EUV LLC license terms which include US congressional oversight.
It’s the US governments tech commercialized by a Dutch multinational company who also has to abide by Dutch export and government restrictions.
- diggan 3y agoThanks a lot for the elaborate explanation that went into specific details of why things are like they are.
- Kon-Peki 3y agoTo expand just a little bit more - the core technology for EUV was developed at US national laboratories run by the Department of Energy and paid for by the US taxpayers. The licenses and limitations are the standard used for all technology coming out of the national laboratories; it is only unusual because ASML is not located in the US.