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thesmtsolver2yesterday at 11:29 PM0 repliesview on HN

Funnily ASML owes its current success partly to US funded research (straight from Wikipedia):

> Two years later, it joined a consortium, which included Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress.[12]