I've been telling y'all the Ukraine war is just a way to hurt the Russo-Sino war machine. The US govt doesn't care if they win.

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[–]MuskyIndependent[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We're trying to replicate the tech. IBM recently built the largest chip manufacturing plant in North America and there was a $8bn subsidy towards increasing domestic production. I'm not saying we can't replicate it but we haven't. If China would just chill till our capacity was there, we wouldn't give two fucks about Taiwan which makes them pushing the issue concerning. Like they want to pick a fight.

As such, I don't see why China wouldn't be able to catch up regardless. What does it matter whether China becomes dominant right now or in the next twenty years

I don't think it's a given. So far China has built itself on stealing IP, producing cheap goods of questionable quality, and rampant real estate speculation that's falling apart. They don't really innovate.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If the US were trying to replicate the tech, wouldn't there be some major trade war between The Netherlands and the US? Also, while I don't know the exact compartimentalization of information and know-how, but doesn't the US part of ASML know what the part in The Netherlands knows?

Also, the mirrors would have to be copied as well, and I doubt even ASML could eliminate that dependency.