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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by abdullahkhalids on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:57PM (#42771834)
While EUV lithography machines are surely a contender, the most complicated machine every made is likely the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A 27 km tunnel in which protons (with cross section about 10^-28 square meters) collide head on. Hard to imagine this amount of alignment is possible.
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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by tonfa on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:22PM (#42772658)
One differentiator is that it's factory produced (not just a one off)
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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by sciencesama on Monday January 20, 2025 @02:36PM (#42772235)
It’s not complex just gigantic, repeated sections. Definitely not downplaying it but definitely euv is damn complex !!
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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by codeulike on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:58PM (#42773553)
True, perhaps if we call EUV Lithography the most complicated fabricator machine that actually makes something. Whereas LHC is a scientific experiment.
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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by bravo33 on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:33PM (#42774465)
It is nothing compared to the EUV machines and not as complicated either and with a utility value much less than even regular DUV machines.
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