ASML.

This is coolbert:

“'ASML has a monopoly on the fabrication of EUV lithography machines, the most advanced type of lithography equipment that’s needed to make every single advanced processor chip that we use today,' . . . 'The machines that they produce, each one of them is among the most complicated devices ever made.'” | Chris Miller.

I stand corrected and was admittedly wrong. I except my error unashamedly!

Control Holland and control the world? Machines used to fabricate micro-electronic semi-conductors as absolutely essential for modern technology a sole monopoly of the Dutch?

"Inside ASML, the wildly successful company that every advanced chipmaker relies on"

Previously my belief that the importance of Taiwan to the world economy cannot be understated. Something like 80 % of all micro-electronic semi-conductors are manufactured in Taiwan. My thought too was the MACHINES to FABRICATE the micro-electronic circuits were also almost entirely a product of Taiwan.

IN THIS I AM WRONG!

"In the southern Dutch town of Veldhoven, near the border with Belgium, sits the only factory capable of assembling a revolutionary machine that’s relied upon by the world’s biggest chipmakers."

EUV LITHOGRAPHY HOLLAND! ASML AT YOUR SERVICE! MACHINES ABSOLUTELY VITAL TO THE WORLD ECONOMY FEW IN NUMBER AND EXPENSIVE!

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"ASML has sold a total of about 140 EUV systems in the past decade, each one now costing up to $200 million, according to Wennink. The price tag for its next machine, called High NA, will be more than $300 million."

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"Today, ASML sells the machines to only five chipmakers. The biggest three — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Samsung and Intel — made up nearly 84% of its business in 2021. TSMC says that in 2019 it was the first to deliver high-volume chips made with EUV and that it has stayed in front ever since, with chip technology at least one node ahead of Samsung’s and Intel’s."

Danger to the world economy let me reiterate extremely serious IF and WHEN there is an actual shooting war between China and Taiwan with intervention on the part of the USA and probably also Japan. We live in a fragile world. Everyone going to suffer.

coolbert.