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Re:U.S. Steel Shareholders Approve Sale to Japan's Nippon Steel by jandrewrogers on Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:23PM (#40035416)
It is no different than the US Congress granting ASML, a Netherlands company, a license to produce EUV lithography technology. Japan and the Netherlands are closely integrated geopolitically with the US for all practical purposes. China, by contrast, is aggressively adversarial in its geopolitical ambitions.

The difference really couldn't be more stark.

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Re:U.S. Steel Shareholders Approve Sale to Japan's Nippon Steel by selimthegrim on Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:31PM (#40035472)
Didn’t they shut down Nikon’s EUV program and give the IP to ASML?
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Re:U.S. Steel Shareholders Approve Sale to Japan's Nippon Steel by throwaway2037 on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:27AM (#40040278)
Who is "they"?

I Google'd for "Nikon’s EUV program". First hit: https://www.nikon.com/company/ir/ir_library/event/pdf/2023/2...

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    > Nikon exited the development of EUV lithography systems about 10 years ago due to the enormous investments required for the development.
I could not find anything about "giv[ing] IP to ASML". Can you provide a reliable source?
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Re:U.S. Steel Shareholders Approve Sale to Japan's Nippon Steel by selimthegrim on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:11AM (#40041607)
There were some allegations elsewhere on HN that the US government had a hand in this.
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