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Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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**The History of UV Lithography and the Role of ASML **

President Biden is trying to pressure the Dutch government into not shipping chip making equipment to China./nThis is a surprising geopolitical situation to be in./nASML is the biggest company in the Netherlands and is critical to the economy of the Netherlands./nThe process of developing the started here in the United States, it Intel, and then it got completely away from Intel./nASML was set on the trajectory to become the only producer in the world of machine tools that can produce UV light and use it to produce semiconductors.

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