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| The 'Most Complicated Machine Humans Have Built' - Biden Wants To Sell It To China |
| 2021-07-07 |
| [HotAir] I’ve written about this before but yesterday the NY Times published an interesting piece on the EUV lithography machines produced by ASML and how those machines really determine who can manufacture cutting edge microchips. As you probably know, there’s a concept called Moore’s Law which suggests that the complexity of microchips doubles every two years while the cost of the chips is cut in half. And for the most part that has held true since the first CPUs were introduced in the 1970s. But cramming more and more transistors into the same physical space gets harder to do over time. With each successive generation of chips, the number of transistors packed into a square millimeter has to climb. Actually making that happen turns out to be massively difficult. In fact, it required expertise from different companies around the world to allow for the creation of the world’s first EUV lithography machines. The machine itself is about the size and shape of a bus and costs $150 million dollars each. |
| Posted by:Slavilet Chirt2694 |
| #6 I think if Biden tried to remove the limits on China buying scanners Korea/Japan/Taiwan would put up a big stink. A very big stink. I also think the idea one of those articles put out that China could invade Tiawan and grab their ASML scanners is naïve. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-07-07 13:02 |
| #5 s/TMSC/TSMC/ |
| Posted by: KBK 2021-07-07 13:01 |
| #4 If Taiwan is overrun, I hope there are plans in place to destroy the TMSC fabs there. |
| Posted by: KBK 2021-07-07 13:00 |
| #3 That's been pre-determined and paid most likely. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2021-07-07 10:47 |
| #2 Biden wants to sell EUV lithography machine technology to China? What is the "Big Guy's" cut? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-07-07 09:12 |
| #1 Don't give anything to the China! China should have to steal everything. Taiwan should move its factories to the US. If China invades, the factories in Taiwan should be destroyed before the VIP's leave. |
| Posted by: boomerc 2021-07-07 05:37 |