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Hikikomori 3 hours ago

The laser source, not the rest of the machine.

WarmWash 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US used this agreement to bar ASML from selling the machines to China in 2018.

The machine is a clump of metal without the light source.

alephnerd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The metrology is coming from Taiwan and California (HMI) as well. The Veldhoven campus "only" does final assembly (which should not be underestimated either - it's complex and high precision work).

But it's the light source and the metrology that is the blocker.

Edit: can't reply

> And mirrors from Carl Zeiss

Absolutely! But note how Zeiss/Trumpf is not ASML. If the US DoE changes the terms of the Cymer partnership and pressures Taiwan (who have just purchased $8B in US military equipment and whom the EU logistically speaking cannot protect) to revert the HMI acquisition, ASML is over.

Additonally, a lot of the muscle around Zeiss/Trumpf's mirrors is also at the Zeiss office in the Tri-Valley because of their partnership with LLNL.

And both China [0] and Japan [1] are in the process of building an Ex-ASML supply chain for EUV, NA EUV, and DUV, and will likely reach that point by the late 2020s to early 2030s.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manh...

[1] - https://www.nikkei.com/nkd/company/us/SNPS/news/?DisplayType...

Hikikomori 3 hours ago | parent [-]

And mirrors from Carl Zeiss. Heavy lifting on "only".