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The tech cold war’s ‘most complicated machine’ that’s out of China’s reach
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The tech cold war’s ‘most complicated machine’ that’s out of China’s reachBy Don Clark, New York Times
Last Updated: Jul 05, 2021, 02:49 PM IST
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The complex machine is widely acknowledged as necessary for making the most advanced chips, an ability with geopolitical implications. The Trump administration successfully lobbied the Dutch government to block shipments of such a machine to China in 2019, and the Biden administration has shown no signs of reversing that stance.
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The complex machine is widely acknowledged as necessary for making the most advanced chips, an ability with geopolitical implications.
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April 9, 2021
The world is running short of semiconductor chips running so short that Subaru has temporarily closed a plant in Japan, 5G network rollouts are delayed, Apple is worried about production hiccups, and new PlayStation 5s are nearly impossible to find. The reason for the shortfall may be plain to see production slowdowns during the pandemic, compounded by booming demand for consumer technology but the shortfall itself shows the stunning ubiquity of the chip today, and the dense complexity of the supply chains that produce it.
Which makes it all the more remarkable that a single Dutch company sits at the very heart of this $439 billion industry. At its headquarters in Veldhoven, in the Netherlands, ASML assembles photolithography machines, which etch circuit patterns onto chip wafers using low-wavelength light. Other companies make such machines too, but ASML controls more than 60% of the market; in 2019, its revenue was 11.8 billion euros ($13.2 billion). It is also the