Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Dutch Chip Equipment Maker ASML's CEO Questions U.S. Export Rules on China

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 17, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly

RamiK writes:

From Reuters' coverage of NRC Handelsblad's interview with ASML's CEO Peter Wennink regarding U.S. export restrictions on China:

following U.S. pressure, the Dutch government has already restricted ASML from exporting its most advanced lithography machines to China since 2019, something he said has benefited U.S. companies selling alternative technology.

He said that while 15% of ASML's sales are in China, at U.S. chip equipment suppliers "it is 25 or sometimes more than 30%".

Wennink said it seemed contradictory that U.S. chip manufacturers are able to sell their most advanced chips to Chinese customers, while ASML is only able to sell older chipmaking equipment.

Meanwhile, "it is common knowledge that chip technology for purely military applications is usually 10, 15 years old. (Yet) the technology used to make such chips can still be sold to China," he added.

Original Submission

 
This discussion was created by janrinok (52) for logged-in users only, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Dutch Chip Equipment Maker ASML's CEO Questions U.S. Export Rules on China | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 18 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday December 18, @01:09AM (2 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Sunday December 18, @01:09AM (#1282950)

    To be fair, the US is backing the EU and Ukraine against Russia so there's a bit of a tradeoff there.

    You do realize that a big part of the reason why Putin chose to invade the Ukraine is because he's feeling cornered by an expanding US-backed NATO right?

    Meaning most likely the whole Ukraine disaster wouldn't have happened in the first place without the US' imperialistic moves in Europe.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday December 18, @02:27AM (1 child)

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday December 18, @02:27AM (#1282963)

    feeling cornered by an expanding US-backed NATO...US' imperialistic moves in Europe

    The Russians been trying to put the bloc back together since it fell apart as they stabilized their economy. They took over Chechnya first. Moved against Georgia 2nd. And then started working on Ukraine. If NATO and the US is at fault at anything, it's dragging their heels since 2004 and especially around 2008 ( yet another gift-that-keeps-on-giving from the Bush administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine–NATO_relations#Presidency_of_Viktor_Yanukovych_(2010–2014) [wikipedia.org] ) when they blocked Georgia and Ukraine from entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Adriatic_Charter [wikipedia.org]

    --
    compiling...

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday December 18, @02:33AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Sunday December 18, @02:33AM (#1282965)

      p.s. mixed up the anchor in first link. It's this part:

      In November 2008, Chancellor Merkel, Prime Minister Tymoshenko and Ukrainian minister of defence Anatoliy Hrytsenko doubted Ukraine would be granted a NATO MAP at the December meeting.[60] In a Times of London interview in late November, Yushchenko stated: "Ukraine has done everything it had to do. We are devoted to this pace. Everything else is an issue of political will of those allies who represent NATO."[61] Although NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary-General Aurelia Bouchez[nb 1] and Secretary-General Scheffer[nb 2] still supported Ukraine's NATO bid at the time. However, the Bush administration seemed not to push for Georgian and Ukrainian MAPs in late November 2008. Condoleezza Rice told a press conference, "We believe that the NATO-Georgia Commission and the NATO-Ukraine Commission can be the bodies with which we intensify our dialogue and our activities. And, therefore, there does not need at this point in time to be any discussion of MAP."[64] President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev responded that "reason has prevailed".[65] On 3 December 2008 NATO decided on an Annual National Programme of providing assistance to Ukraine to implement reforms required to accede the alliance without referring to MAP.[66][67]

      ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine–NATO_relations#Bucharest_summit:_2008–2009 [wikipedia.org] )

      --
      compiling...