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jiggawattslast Friday at 9:28 AM1 replyview on HN

That’s my point: the key inputs are not materials but the high tech machinery and the skills to operate them.


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Draikenlast Friday at 2:06 PM

Which is better because?

We can't copy/paste a new ASML no matter how hard you try (aside from open sourcing all of their IPs). Even if you do, by the time you copy one generation of machine, they're on a new generation and you now still have the bottleneck on the same place.

Not to mention that with these monopolies they can just keep increasing prices ad infinitum.

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