– Why is ASML’s technology so difficult to remake?

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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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This video explains it very well: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_OOta7Y6Ik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_OOta7Y6Ik)

Basically. You need few hundred *billions* of dollars, several established corporations and a strong government to coordinate it … and you still might fail.

To be fair the progress slowed down recently so it’s easier to catch up now then it was when Japan tried it.

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