US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early(theregister.com)
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US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/us_pushed_asml_to_cancel/
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The west is only buying time for the inevitable.
Beginning of the end for Western chip manufacturing.
Old business proverb: "Never, ever turn away a paying customer. That's business you will never get back again."
Without those Chinese sales ASML can't get enough funding to maintain its technological lead. Those sales will go to the fledgling Chinese FAB builders instead, allowing them to catch up and then surpass ASML.
In ten years' time, ASML will be no more, and Western semiconductor manufacturers will be very sick if not already dead. And yet another Western industry will become yet another Chinese monopoly, following all those other previous Western industries to oblivion.