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U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China
nltimes.nl/2026/08/20/us-preparing-force-netherlands-ban-asml-selling-china
Some company in China just duplicated ASMLs shtick, didn’t they ?
Yes and no. It’ll still take many years to get to the same level. ASML has a huge head start
Replying to @qevlarr@lemmy.world
This feels again a bit dismissive. My whole life I have heard “it is okay, China is years away from doing any catch up, unlikely anything happens” and then China proceeds to catch up every. Single. Time.
if China has replicated the technology, then that is fucked for ASML and any headstart they have will not feel like one in 5 years when suddenly China speeds past with cheaper and better tech.
I hope ASML won’t just sit idle and will instead double the effort into making sure the lead they have stays that way.
most recent one I can remember was “Chinese cars are years away from quality and safe cars of western countries who have a massive headstart” recently also been hearing that about memory production.
Replying to @vetskari@sopuli.xyz
I get that, nobody should get complacent. I’m from Eindhoven and I know many people at ASML. They are not complacent. They knew this day would come. They’re racing for the next big thing even after EUV, of course they are, but nothing lasts forever. The head start is real, China can make a couple of these machines where ASML builds 60 per year. And these machines don’t have anywhere near the chip production capacity of ASML’s