{"id":1039999,"date":"2026-06-21T02:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1039999\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:25:49","slug":"us-tells-asml-its-concerned-one-of-its-chipmaking-tools-may-be-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1039999\/","title":{"rendered":"US tells ASML it&#8217;s concerned one of its chipmaking tools may be in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Fri, Jun 19, 2026 \u00b7 01:40 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[BENGALURU] US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has told ASML that Washington is concerned that one of its top chipmaking machines may have found its way to China in violation of US-led export restrictions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday (Jun 18).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Lutnick expressed these concerns to senior leaders of the Dutch firm in a series of meetings, the report said. ASML has pushed back against those concerns, noting that EUV, or extreme ultraviolet, lithography tools used to print tiny chip circuits are made in small quantities and require constant upkeep from ASML employees, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">ASML\u2019s most advanced EUV systems are roughly the size of a school bus and weigh 180 tonnes. \u201cASML has never shipped an EUV machine to China nor have we shipped to China any component, module or equipment specially designed to be used in an EUV machine,\u201d Bloomberg quoted an ASML spokesperson as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The US Commerce Department, ASML and the White House were not immediately available for comment outside business hours when contacted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6 inline-block\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Reuters reported in December that Chinese scientists have developed a prototype of an EUV machine that was built by a team of former engineers from ASML, an effort described as China\u2019s version of the Manhattan Project. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Fri, Jun 19, 2026 \u00b7 01:40 PM [BENGALURU] US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has told ASML that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1040000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3090],"tags":[166324,51,1700,16,15,32311],"class_list":["post-1039999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asml","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-china-trade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116785730487999787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}