ASML of the Netherlands agreed to go along with past US requests to not supply China with bleeding edge machines, so China is making do with the older models while working hard to break the non-US hardware monopoly.
Washington, via the recent MATCH Act, has requested ASML to not supply or maintain any of the older equipment.
ASML has travelled to Washington to tell US Congress to take a long walk off a short pier.
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ASML of the Netherlands agreed to go along with past US requests to not supply China with bleeding edge machines, so China is making do with the older models while working hard to break the non-US hardware monopoly.
Washington, via the recent MATCH Act, has requested ASML to not supply or maintain any of the older equipment.
ASML has travelled to Washington to tell US Congress to take a long walk off a short pier.
If history is a guide, the Dutch will do what the US asks of them.
Sadly yes, wish we'd just told them to fuck off and make a deal with China, they are the future - but we seem to be very scared of daddy.
Why, so China can copy the technology and produce their one 5 years later?
So the Dutch can make more money and pay less for ai, memory, cpus etc that currently is being monopolized by big tech.
Its not impossible but If it was that easy the Americans and Taiwanese would have already done that.
They are all economically aligned with the Netherlands in a way mainland China never will be.
Having a reliable supplier in such a time will be a deterrent to building their home grown alternative.