Die USA drängten den niederländischen Hersteller von Chip-Ausrüstung, den chinesischen Verkauf vor Ablauf der Frist zu blockieren

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  1. For those wondering. ASML is essentially the only company that makes the lithography machines that companies like Samsung and TSMC use to manufacture semiconductors, yes there are a few others like Canon and Nikon but at the 5nm level they are the only ones that have figured out EUV Lithography and can manufacture machines.

    Without ASML we do not have modern technology. or we’d have it just not at the pace we do now.

  2. Hell yeah, when Uncle Sam tells you to do something, you do it, no questions asked.

  3. Biden also had both ASML and Applied Materials to shut down their offices in China last summer. Both are involved in helping companies to build state of the art chip making facilities. One analyst described it ‘nearly an act of war’ to pull those businesses out of China on short notice.

  4. It’s amazing how little conflict it’s taken for the US to be pretty much at war with China

    BRICS as an alliance makes sense when you think of this

  5. ASML, TSMC have to much power really. A lot of ppl don’t realize how important they are really

  6. *Thanks for sharing this article, here’s more from the story by Bloomberg News reporters Cagan Koc and Jennifer Jacobs:*

    ASML canceled shipments of some of its machines to China at the request of US President Joe Biden’s administration, weeks before export bans on the high-end chipmaking equipment came into effect, people familiar with the matter said.

    The Dutch manufacturer had licenses to ship three top-of-the-line deep ultraviolet lithography machines to Chinese firms until January when new Dutch restrictions take full effect. However, US officials reached out to ASML to ask them to immediately halt pre-scheduled shipments of some of the machines to Chinese customers, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were confidential.

    Biden is cracking down on Beijing’s attempts to create its own advanced semiconductor industry, and the US and its allies are blocking access to imported technology.

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