Russia using old ASML machines to make microchips for weapons

Re:Russia using old ASML machines to make microchips for wea... by blackeyeblitzar on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:22PM (#41459676)

This is a battleground with other opponents of the US too. Apparently ASML, with the support of the Dutch government, may revisit US led restrictions on their sales and support for China:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-ceo-says-us-motivati...

I am not sure what freedom ASML has either. As I recall, the EUV technology they use was actually from a DARPA funded research project, and maybe the US has some licensing restrictions as a way to control it.

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Re:Russia using old ASML machines to make microchips for wea... by protomolecule on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:30PM (#41460160)

There is a long way from DARPA research project to commercial technology. It took more than a decade for ASML to make EUV lithography work.

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Re:Russia using old ASML machines to make microchips for wea... by ahmeneeroe-v2 on Thursday September 05, 2024 @05:28PM (#41460549)

That's not really relevant to the licensor/licensee relationship, but from an academic perspective, how long would it have taken without the underlying US-taxpayer-funded research?

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Re:Russia using old ASML machines to make microchips for wea... by protomolecule on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:45AM (#41463910)

I got interested and started googling. Guess what I have found: "The EUV story begins in the mid-1980s in Japan when, building on multilayer mirror research done in Russia in the 70s, Hiroo Kinoshita projected the first EUV images." [0]

[0] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2022/making-euv-lab-to-...

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