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Re:Canon, [], launches ASML challenge with machine to make t... by Goodroo on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:42AM (#37871176)
This will be interesting because the few potential customers like TSMC and Intel are shareholders of ASML and thus their captive market.

Most people don't know that EUV was actually a DARPA funded project to pry away semiconductor leadership from the Japanese

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Re:Canon, [], launches ASML challenge with machine to make t... by gary_0 on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:33PM (#37873208)
EUV has quite the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...

> "Congress denied Japanese companies the necessary permission as they were perceived as strong technical competitors at the time"

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