ASML would be tricky to nationalise or take private since it’s a joint venture with significant investment from the Americans. A lot of money was poured from different places to pioneer EUV lithography which was considered a moonshot at the time. There is a lot of cross licensing to consider too:
In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet and in 1999 joined a consortium, including Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the CRADA it operates under is funded by the US taxpayer, licensing must be approved by Congress. It collaborated with the Belgian IMEC and Sematech and turned to Carl Zeiss in Germany for its need of mirrors.[25]
In 2000, ASML acquired the Silicon Valley Group (SVG),[26] a US lithography equipment manufacturer also licensed for EUV research results, in a bid to supply 193 nm scanners to Intel Corp.[27][28]
ASML can only work if everyone plays nice. Bold assumption these days heh.
ASML would be tricky to nationalise or take private since it’s a joint venture with significant investment from the Americans. A lot of money was poured from different places to pioneer EUV lithography which was considered a moonshot at the time. There is a lot of cross licensing to consider too:
ASML can only work if everyone plays nice. Bold assumption these days heh.
Thank you, I wasn’t aware of this