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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You’re making incredibly high-precision tools. To make those, you need slightly less precise tools and components. To make those…
None of the tooling and components that go into this stuff is off-the-shelf. They’re all bespoke, there’s very few people out there making them, and those people might not be willing or able to sell them to you anyhow.
To replicate ASML’s machines, you need to assemble the whole chain of suppliers for the components that go into those machines, the tooling to make the machines, and people with the skills to make it all work.
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