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Showing Original Post only (View all)eurpoe has a giant weapon it could use against the US in an economic war [View all]
Its not secret that AI is goign to play a huge role in the future.
In order to make teh chips needed for AI you need highly specialized equipment.
One key machine is an Extreme Ultraviolet lithography machine which is a must have to make teh AI chips.
Theres only 1 company that makes them. ASML,a dutch company. If the EU decided to ban the export of those machines to the US that would destroy the AI business here.
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moonshinegnomie
7 hrs ago
OP
And that's why Generalissimo Trump will march into the Netherlands after he's done with Greenland.
dem4decades
6 hrs ago
#5
Those cow chips will be the mighty engines powering the goldish plated Trump fones!
Hugin
4 hrs ago
#25
And you all thought is was going to be a ballroom. Nope, it's trump's Stable Genius Chip Foundry.
erronis
4 hrs ago
#26
EU would make a quick impact by just boycotting American goods. The Canadians have sobered US booze industry...
dutch777
6 hrs ago
#10
According to the video supplied above, TSMC and others get this technology from ASML
erronis
4 hrs ago
#27
That is the type of discussions they are having, rather than reciprocal tariffs they
Bev54
5 hrs ago
#15
China just developed a 4nm machine, but they do not have an inventory of them yet.
LiberalArkie
4 hrs ago
#23