No sales, and no service.
There’s a new development just about every other day on the seemingly ever escalating tech war between China and the US. The latest development is a request from the US government to Dutch-based ASML that it stop servicing advanced chip making equipment the firm has sold to China.
ASML is already banned from selling extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines to China.
According to Reuters, a US delegation is due to meet with Dutch government officials and executives from ASML on Monday to discuss the matter. By halting the servicing of equipment Chinese companies already own, the US hopes the chipmaking capabilities of Chinese manufacturers could be disrupted, if not completely shut down in some instances.
