[davidhyde]

> “I would ban the sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Chinese fabs”.

Ahem, ASML, who makes the manufacturing equipment for TSMC is a Dutch company, not a US one.

[mrDmrTmrJ]

The UV light source that ASML uses for its lithography machine is technology that was acquired in the 2013 acquisition of San Diego-based Cymber. The tech stack for the advanced light source dates back to the "EUV LLC Initiative," led by DARPA in the mid-1990s.

US origins of the key technology here give the US a veto here regardless of ASML's Dutch headquarters.

[manuelmoreale]

> US origins of the key technology here give the US a veto here regardless of ASML's Dutch headquarters.

Is this an actual thing? Genuinely asking. Not that rules and laws seem to matter anymore to the current US administration anyway

[nine_k]

First sale doctrine called, reminded about itself.