alt Hacker News> “I would ban the sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Chinese fabs”.
Ahem, ASML, who makes the manufacturing equipment for TSMC is a Dutch company, not a US one.
> “I would ban the sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Chinese fabs”.
Ahem, ASML, who makes the manufacturing equipment for TSMC is a Dutch company, not a US one.
The UV light source that ASML uses for its lithography machine is technology that was acquired in the 2013 acquisition of San Diego-based Cymber. The tech stack for the advanced light source dates back to the "EUV LLC Initiative," led by DARPA in the mid-1990s.
US origins of the key technology here give the US a veto here regardless of ASML's Dutch headquarters.