> “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.
Ahem, ASML, who makes the manufacturing equipment for TSMC is a Dutch company, not a US one.
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
That’s not guaranteed at this point, but it’s also not off the table since all the old rules are being shredded as fast as possible.