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Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Clearly behind them there's the USA pushing for that.

Isn't this dangerous, like playing with fire? I don't think that China is going to be "oh no the software license is expire, we give up and close all the factories", rather going to invest billions to find an alternative and make ASML irrelevant in the country. It won't be fast to see cloned machines but isn't it better to keep them tied to licenses and expensive periodic maintenance instead of pushing a temporary roadblock that will lead to the development of workarounds, unofficial cheap maintenance routines and cloned machines?

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