"What is there to stop them?" Washington for sure is trying their very best and has so far been quite successful.

fauigerzigerk 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US has successfully stopped them from acquiring the machines. That's not the same as stopping them from acquiring the capability to make them. On the contrary.

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defrost 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ASML of the Netherlands agreed to go along with past US requests to not supply China with bleeding edge machines, so China is making do with the older models while working hard to break the non-US hardware monopoly.

Washington, via the recent MATCH Act, has requested ASML to not supply or maintain any of the older equipment.

ASML has travelled to Washington to tell US Congress to take a long walk off a short pier.

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chvid 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If history is a guide, the Dutch will do what the US asks of them.

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toxicunderGroov 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sadly yes, wish we'd just told them to fuck off and make a deal with China, they are the future - but we seem to be very scared of daddy.

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Gud 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why, so China can copy the technology and produce their one 5 years later?

	▲	toxicunderGroov an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Its not impossible but If it was that easy the Americans and Taiwanese would have already done that.