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  A PR piece from Military Aerospace...ur kidding right?
  All aircraft carriers are WWII tactic and strategy.   Cruise missiles made carriers obsolete the way carriers made battleships obsolete.
context: “The Netherlands' ASML stands to lose about a quarter of the revenue it used to earn from China. It's the only company that makes the most advanced lithographic machines - the tools that make "leading edge" chips.”
  I work for a company that does a lot of work for ASML and it’s partners. ASML isn’t the least worried about this all as there is way too much demand worldwide to realistically speak of ‘losing revenue’. Supply has always been short, so again, here in the Netherlands people aren’t worrying yet and won’t be anytime soon. >
  
  However small the chance, there is a possibility of China stealing enough to produce their own. For exampke there was a brief dip on ASML stock price on news of some pattern filings by Huawei... >
  
  Even if China were to steal the plans to produce the chip manufacturing machines that ASML produces, it would take them a decade or more to build the facilities and engineering know-how to put them into action.  And by that point they would still be a generation behind.
  It is kind of crazy how fast that industry evolves, and the reason ASML is the sole producer of the machines that make the most advanced chips in the world is because they were the first to build them and the requirements to even try to catch up to them is effectively impossible because they are already building the manufacturing for the machines that will build the next decade's computer chips. >
  
  ASML may have the best FactoryFactory, but invest in me. I'm building the FactoryFactoryFactory of the future. >
  
  I got my 2 year old chip the other day. Stale as the dickens. >
  
  Chips in China are even older. >
  
  Biden policy shines again where it counts while Trump/GOP worries about maintaining white supremacy and enslaving women and immigrant labor. >
  
  Please educate yourself what you call Biden’s policies are actually trump policies 
  You do realize Biden is actually just continuing trumps policy toward China. As a matter of fact go back and look at all the crap trump took from the democrats and republicans when he campaigned on reigning is China. Remember China China China  the Republicans said he was going to destroy free markets as if there were any free markets. And the democrats said the tariffs would just be a be financial burden on consumers. Eventhough magically democrats thought big bad corporations would just pass on the tariffs to consumers but apparently democrats do not think corporations are smart enough to pass on corporate tax hikes to consumers and not a single reporter is smart enough to the difference. >
  
  This is a hilarious comment. Tell other people to educate themselves, yet has no idea what policies have been implemented over the last 2 years. >
  
  Actually Taiwan winning.... >
  
  They are building factories in us.  So Taiwan and us are winning. >
  
  
  Semiconductors were invented in the US, but over time East Asia emerged as a manufacturing hub, largely because of government incentives, including subsidies.
  
  How dare those Asian countries "pick winners". >
  
  China is probably putting the lion's share of its research and production effort into weapons in the runup to the coming war over Taiwan. >
  
  China spends $250B a year on military.
  US spends $1.2T a year on military.
  You want to win, you spend the money on mfg computers chips not WWII aircraft carriers, US has 18, China has 2. >
  
  US Military spends like a 3rd of that on research and development.  That includes semiconductors. >
  
  Like no it doesn't as you can see from the actual Pentagon budget.
  Does spend a lot of WWII aircraft carriers though and those 600 military bases...yikes.