We could have more ASML's immediately if we eradicate the desire to covet technology for one in-group, over another.

> reshaped society

Invalidate all of ASML's patents = get cheaper chips, sooner.

It is intellectual property which gives some of us the ability to build these things and sell them to others - get rid of this phony concept and we can have more nice things...

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brookst 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And if you had done that 10 years ago we wouldn’t hve EUV at all. You’re proposing ending future development to make today’s products cheaper.

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wahern 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The article might disagree. See the subsection, "The importance of tacit knowledge". OTOH, if that tacit knowledge is indeed so critical then there's less risk (e.g. regarding future investment incentives) to narrowing patent protections. OTOOH, ASML's supply chain is deep and complex, and the patent portfolio is presumably similarly diffuse, which makes it difficult to analyze or even, short of a complete patent regime overhaul, identify which patents to open up to accelerate adoption.

	▲	rigonkulous 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ASML's supply chain is deep and complex - and secret. But if it were F/OSS (just imagine it) from sand to chip, that complexity would have a wider scope of human attention applied to it. What is happening with ASML now, once happened with the wheel. Think about that.

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bombcar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or you could have nobody bother to invest in things like this because of no reward, or they become closely guarded trade secrets of which the Elves keep and nobody else is even allowed to know they exist.

	▲	rigonkulous 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"no reward" is weak, because of course you wouldn't make a wheel, say, unless you intended to roll somewhere. You're basically saying "ASML's entire production line is worthless unless it is rare and coveted", which is .. obviously not true .. because of course the output is immensely useful. The world needs more chipfabs, not less. A properly scaled chipfab in places like Broome or Santiago, or .. indeed in orbit .. would go a long way to sorting out the worlds fires. The thing stopping us, is the international, imperial system of patents and intellectual 'property', which make nation states subservient to each other on the basis of ideas. The ideas could be spreading far and wide, but we humans are keeping them in our cage, in which the only reward is having other cages to extract wealth from ..

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runako 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a great way to lower the cost of the current generation of the tech while ensuring there is no next generation of the tech.

	▲	rigonkulous 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think that makes any sense whatsoever. If everyone could make these machines, there'd be more of these machines. There are so many examples of this out there, already, that I find this specious "no next generation" argument to be either simply coming from bias, or ignorance. For sure, we only care about Taiwan because there is one Taiwan. End patents: no more Taiwan problem.