While China wants to be self-sufficient when it comes to the production of chips, the U.S. has come up with ways to prevent this from taking place. One way that the U.S. has accomplished this is by pressuring the Netherlands to prevent Dutch firm ASML from shipping its most advanced lithography machines to China. These large and expensive machines are necessary when it comes to the production of cutting-edge chips.What these lithography machines do is etch circuitry patterns on a wafer.
The Netherlands is looking to embrace China as a trading partner and is becoming less interested in listening to American concerns about China building its own chips for military use. No EUV machines have been sold to the Chinese by ASML, and the U.S. is now trying to get the Dutch to ban sales to China of immersion lithography technology, the most advanced type of Deep Ultraviolet Lithography equipment that ASML offers.
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)
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