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I've always found it fascinating that ASML is European but the latest nodes come out of Taiwan.
by SanjayMehta 4mo ago
I've always found it fascinating that ASML is European but the latest nodes come out of Taiwan.
- alephnerd 4mo agoASML the holding company is European, but a large portion of their IP is firewalled within the US or Taiwan, though plenty of IP is generated within Netherlands. Much of Asia (eg. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Philippines, and now Vietnam+India) as well as the US has spent decades working and financing both backend and frontend semiconductor processes, but European states fell behind in the 2000s and 2010s.