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These machines might as well have camo on them, they’re going to be so important to national security wherever they go.
Alan Estevez, a top U.S. official for export policy, will meet with Dutch officials and ASML representatives to discuss the matter next week. The report says the discussion may also include the possibility of expanding the list of Chinese chip factories that are barred from receiving Dutch equipment. If the U.S. and the Netherlands agree to limit the servicing of ASML’s machines in China, this could hurt or even disrupt China’s abilities to produce advanced chips using lithography equipment that its chipmakers already have.
This is a tough one. ASML is the only company in the world that does what it does, they’re the geniuses of geniuses.
If the United States wants them to play ball like this, the bribe would have to be enormous. Like, the same scale as some foreign aid.
https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=4825
US chip giant secures all initial stock from ASML
The US chipmaker preemptive purchased the equipment as it announced its re-entry into the chip foundry, or contract chip production, business, they also said.
The fact that American taxpayers would be footing a significant portion of the associated costs had to have figured in Intel’s risky gambit, especially as the Biden Administration’s CHIPS Act funding has served to socialize these costs for the erstwhile chipmaking behemoth.
Beautiful.
An American company horded the entire first batch of the world’s most advanced technology.
Chips act already paid for itself here.
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The Chinese Commerce Ministry criticized Washington for “coercing” allied nations like the Netherlands into tightening export controls, framing it as a U.S. strategy “to maintain its global hegemony.” The spokesperson added that these measures pose a serious threat to the stability of global semiconductor supply chains and harm businesses’ “legitimate rights and interests.”
The Chinese Commerce Ministry criticized Washington for “coercing” allied nations like the Netherlands into tightening export controls, framing it as a U.S. strategy “to maintain its global hegemony.” The spokesperson added that these measures pose a serious threat to the stability of global semiconductor supply chains and harm businesses’ “legitimate rights and interests.”
Glad to see the Netherlands locking arms with the Biden-Harris administration. ASML’s expertise needs to be treated like a strategic resource.
