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Re:DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to... by tedd4u on Sunday July 26, 2026 @02:33PM (#49060959)
And, “TSMC and ASML, currently, the only supplier of tools that could make cutting-edge 2nm chips, have added a ‘kill switch’ that will disable TSMC’s EUV machines remotely. According to Bloomberg.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-euv-machine...

Re:DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to... by edg5000 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:00PM (#49178080)
If you had physicial access to the machine, you could disable that feature. It would take some work since it must be baked into binaries, but far easier than creating a new EUB machine from scratch, I presume.