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VWWHFSfQ 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in ...

> There is a reason why ASML's next-generation research photolithography machine is currently being installed and developed in upstate New York, and not somewhere in the Netherlands. The same reason that Cymer is still in San Diego instead of being relocated to Europe.

What is the reason?

petcat 29 days ago [–]

Because it's American tech funded by the USA CHIPS Act and the Department of Energy. Tightly controlled by the US government.

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