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by Cthulhu_1 days ago |
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upvoteby petcat1 days ago|
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> the biggest company in the Netherlands and its products (ASML and high end lithography machines), is built on top of the works of only a handful of researchers.

This is... wildly wrong. ASML is a multi-national company that licenses IP largely from USA and Japan, but also Taiwan and Germany. The actual EUV light source is developed and produced in California by Cymer, which ASML acquired in 2013. But ASML was only permitted to acquire the company under a strict technology sharing and export control agreement with the US government. Additionally, a huge portion of the photolithography research is directly developed (and owned) by US companies and research organizations such as IBM, Albany NanoTech, and SEMATECH.

There is a reason why ASML's next-generation research photolithography machine is currently being installed and developed in upstate New York, and not somewhere in the Netherlands. The same reason that Cymer is still in San Diego instead of being relocated to Europe.

[0] https://www.eetimes.com/asml-to-build-400-million-us-researc...

[1] https://www.eetimes.com/asml-sematech-team-on-manufacturing-...

[2] https://research.ibm.com/blog/euv-center-albany-nstc

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upvoteby RandomLensman1 days ago|
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The laser and optics for the EUV light source are from the US?
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upvoteby chuckadams1 days ago|
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The laser is from the US, the optics are German (Zeiss)
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upvoteby RandomLensman1 days ago|
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Isn't TRUMPF a German company?
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upvoteby petcat1 days ago|
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OP was slightly mistaken. The laser itself is provided by TRUMPF, a German company. Cymer (USA) integrates that laser with tin droplet, plasma, optical, vacuum, and control technologies to create the complete DUV/EUV light sources.
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upvoteby VWWHFSfQ1 days ago|
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> There is a reason why ASML's next-generation research photolithography machine is currently being installed and developed in upstate New York, and not somewhere in the Netherlands. The same reason that Cymer is still in San Diego instead of being relocated to Europe.

What is the reason?

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upvoteby petcat1 days ago|
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Because it's American tech funded by the USA CHIPS Act and the Department of Energy. Tightly controlled by the US government.
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