Dutch government takes ASML export measures off Uncle Sam's hands

ASML has moved to assure customers and investors that it is subject to no new restrictions following an announcement that expands the Netherlands government's own role in export control measures. The Netherlands' Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Reinette Klever, said on Friday that "national" export control measures …

[VoiceOfTruth]

"ASML has not always been pleased with the export restrictions placed on it as these curtailed its sales to China, the company's largest export market other than Taiwan."

Mealy mouthed. ASML has NEVER been pleased with these restrictions, and suggesting anything else is dishonest. The USA is cutting ASML's business. Looking ahead, China would be a bigger market for ASML. Instead China will develop its own technology, and ASML will shrink.

[Adrian Harvey]

In British English, “not always been pleased” means that they have hated it with a passion hotter than a supernova.

British English is an elegant weapon for a more civilised age…

[CowHorseFrog]

The US should be checking what UAE and other middle east friends are doing instead of worrying about good friends like the Dutch.

[EricB123]

Who Wants to Play Lacky to Anyone or any Other Country?

Can't blame ASML or the Dutch on this one.

[Alan Brown]

AMSL's primary disadvantage

If it's proven that something is possible but the sauce is secret then SOMEONE ELSE will independently invent it by simple dint of having a target to aim at (eg: According to modern analysts, the Soviets were _at worst_ 18-24 months behind USA in developing the atomic bomb even without the spying that went on)

That may occur via replication or may be due to an entirely different discovery that gives the same result - in an number of cases (eg: transistors) the alternative methods (junction and then thin film) may turn out to be magnitudes more scalable (There's never been a point contact integrated circuit as one example)

If AMSL is able to do business in China there's vastly LESS pressure on researchers to come up with independent alternatives to EUV lithography - and if the Chinese manage to do so (eg: perhaps by perfecting electron beam litho at scale) the resulting flood of competing lithography devices will likely put them in danger of going out of business