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alwayesterday at 8:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Everyone’s interest except, perhaps, the Taiwanese state… where TSMC’s know-how lives, and whose help you’d need to transfer it elsewhere.

I keep hearing SMIC has allllllmost caught up, of course…


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astrangeyesterday at 9:38 PM

EUV is an American technology which we decided to license to ASML/TSMC instead of Nikon/Canon. They do have their own knowledge but are not irreplaceable.

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