I legislatori statunitensi chiedono il divieto di vendita di strumenti per la produzione di chip in Cina: un gruppo bipartisan prende di mira le esportazioni olandesi di ASML di macchine litografiche utilizzate per creare chip avanzati
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/u-s-lawmakers-demand-sales-ban-on-chipmaking-tools-to-china-bipartisan-group-targets-asmls-dutch-exports-of-lithography-machines-used-to-create-advanced-chips
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They are only increasing the motivation to be more independent from anything from the US.
Basically, if you cut through the lofty rhetoric, ASML will soon be serving only the U.S. market and be completely dependent on it.
One morning, the U.S. president will wake up and decide ASML should become American.
By the way, a lot of people missed the news that ASML is cutting 1,700 jobs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/asml-plans-about-1-700-job-cuts-in-netherlands-us-as-sales-boom
This should be a thing, not because the US says so, but because China cannot be trusted to have access to this technology without trying to reverse-engineer it and infringe on european patents to create their own alternative.
No sales to the pedostate either.
“EU lawmakers demand the US to be a nicer trade-partner and ally”
The collection of countries target the US government which is isolating itself from the world stage and driving the EU towards other nations, like China.
Free market for me but not for thee?
F**k US lawmakers
They could do this with the latest gen equipment because they used some US controlled tech in the process.
However this is all just based on soft power and wanting to humor the US as an ally.
America is running low on thees things now.
As a consumer, it’s more beneficial for me if the means of production and technologies are available to as many manufacturers as possible. This will increase competition, lower prices, and expand supply. And the issues of containment and U.S. hegemony are problems for the United States to deal with.
Are these the same US lawmakers who tried to indict 6 people for making a video telling the army they don’t have to obey illegal orders?
The Chinese will get there eventually anyway, so all this will do is slow it a bit.
Why not block Trump from giving away chips to Qatar? Like that’s how China got them last time. Until you curb the beast and his ways to get things done for himself, this is just some bullshit rhetoric that does nothing to stop the issue except keep a few senators in power that aren’t worth a damn anyway
Too late
Do they want to make a deal? We stop selling to China and they send MAGA to a reeducation camp.
I read the other day that Trump gave away the secrets to their most advanced military chips to some Gulfs State in exchange for a bit of hand money. And now this man wants to lecture us?!
It doesn’t really work to not sell them to China because it’ll just make them create their own. What you want is to keep them dependent on the lithography machines. Maybe you just ban them from having the latest version and you keep the latest and greatest for yourself to get an unfair advantage.
US ‘lawmakers’ (ironic coming from a count with no rule of law) can eat a whole bag of dicks. Their time pushing their weight around with sovereign nations is fucking done.
The Dutch government is sovereign and can choose to allow the export of lithography machines- or not- as they see fit. The US has every right to share its concerns, of course, but no right to try to dictate Dutch policy.
As my native Canada has shown so well, dependency on a single market- US, China, Russia, whatever- is the economic kiss of death. Trade diversity is the best bulwark against economic pressure, so it is wisest to deepen and reinforce it. No country should willingly cede it in an attempt appease an unappeasable US government.
Good luck with that Trumpster!
I am actively hoping for China to gain technological parity with the US just to get some fucking price competition.
Hell, if the DRAM is cheap enough to can spy on me for the CCP, Google and Microsoft are already spying on my American hardware anyway.
We’re in for 20 to 50 rough years, and then the USA will get back to the stone age because nobody will want to work with them. Scarlet Maid style.
This just accelerates China’s own development of this technology. Sooner or later it becomes irrelevant whether ASML sells to the Chinese, because they can make their own
Yes the USA is trying to control what other countries do and to stifle any hope for their one time close trading partners to be successful. Blaming the current administration in Washington is the only thing left to do.
US lawmakers? I thought they didnt make these over there
Old tech? Sure, DUV maybe. But EUV—ASML has never shipped any of those machines to China. And the thing is, once they realize that anything made in China that needs a chip won’t be coming anymore, they’ll see there’s nothing they can do about it. These old fossils in those comities don’t understand jag about how economies and high tech can’t survive without each other. Imagine cars, phones, sevice parts, a goddamn air sensor will slow down in delivering. For months, that’s a recession of the western world which it seems cannot live without.
Only more reason to diversify away from the US asap.