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davedxyesterday at 7:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Have you heard of ASML? NXP?

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joe_mambayesterday at 7:43 PM

Please don't move the goalposts. What computer parts does ASML or NXP make?

ASML only makes the lithography machines, 85% of which go outside the EU (let that sink in). And then fabs in Taiwan, Korea or the US use those ASML machines to etch US IP for computer chips. EU doesn't make any computer parts domestically.

And NXP mostly makes various microcontrollers and small chips, not high margin IP decenter centric parts like ASICS, FPGAs, CPUs or GPUs.

So not only are you the ignorant one here, but you also have the audacity to insult others with so much confidence.

@dwa3592 below. Firstly, why are you moving the goalposts in bad faith again just to stir an argument? What does that have to do with my original comment?

And secondly, there's other lithography machines out there, not just ASML.

And thirdly, the IP Nvidia, AMD, etc develop to etch on silicone via ASML machines makes them more valuable than ASML.

Fourthly, repeating my "let that sink in" phrase is just childish and low-IQ trolling, unworthy of this platform.

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