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Re:Chip machine maker ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO by tonyhb on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:57PM (#38493046)
The research wasn't done by them — it was paid for by the US gov't and developed at US labs. ASML were given the research knowing that it could work.
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Re:Chip machine maker ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO by _fizz_buzz_ on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:28PM (#38493416)
That is a bit of an oversimplification of what happened. A lot of basic research was done by US labs. But it took ASML almost 20 years to convert this research into a production ready system and nobody else succeeded. And they also got some big research grants from the EU[1]

[1]https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/28160

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Re:Chip machine maker ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO by janc_ on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:19PM (#38493942)
IIRC there is also some IMEC research in those ASML machines (which might also have been partially EU funded)?
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Re:Chip machine maker ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO by ahartmetz on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:31PM (#38493455)
The US had an EUV project that ran like 2-3 years and cost a few millions. ASML spent two decades and billions on it. That's like saying that the Manhattan project was given to the US by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn.
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