One would expect that reverse engineering technologies wouldn’t be impossible.
The importance of these technologies for China is huge.
Moreover, they have a massive budget and probably also own a couple of ASML’s euv lithography machines.
Why is it that they cant remake these machines?
I heard some sources say that it might take them a decade.
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It’s like stealing recipes from a world-class chef.
You’ve got the recipe now, but you still need world-class cooking skills to make the dish.
And even if you do have your own world-class chef, where are you going to get that particular wine that’s used in the sauce?
That’s from a world-class vintner in the same town as the chef you stole the recipe from.
So now you need to steal his grapes, too. And a world-class vintner to grow them. But nobody even grows grapes round here.
And then there’s the organic, unpasteurised cheese from the locally-raised goats.
Oh, and it’s cooked in custom-made pots in a specialised oven (fired by peat from local moors, natch).
What ASML does is *incredibly* complex. Even if you’ve stolen their cookbook, you still need to develop the world-class technical skills to use it, and all the other cutting-edge supporting technologies.
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