The Dutch company ASML, as basically the only company in the world that makes the lithography machines used to produce the most complex microchips, has again become a geopolitical pawn. The United States government is preparing to force the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling almost any chip-making machines to China, NU.nl reports.
  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    6 days ago

    Everybody can reverse engineer it, with that mindset nobody could ever sell anything.

    • deWafelMan@lemmus.orgEnglish
      92·
      6 days ago

      Nope, asml machines are of such complexity that no sane country/company would try to reverse engineer it.

      But China isn’t driven by conventional economics nor honest trade. They want everyone else to become dependent on them as a way to get power and soft colonise others.