Comments by "Zhi Han Lee" (@lzh4950) on "How ASML Won Lithography (& Why Japan Lost)" video.

  1. Canon didn't really believe in mirrorless technology I remember (probably due to doubts over its effectiveness). Generally Japanese companies are more conservative & practice more incremental than radical innovation I think e.g. a rice cooker whose pot has a convex base for more even heat distribution (a design adopted from traditional Japanese cooking pots too). Toyota also continue using 4-speed auto transmissions as late as 2012 e.g. in the Corolla Altis, & introduced direct injection to it only in 2013 (8 years after Audi launched it on the A4, though also becuase Japanese car companies sell more cars to developing/undeveloped countries, where petrol is dirtier & would foul up the more delicate direct injection engines)
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  2. Japanese companies still have a global monopoly over photoresist chemicals though interestingly, which affected S Korea's fabs when Japan decided to reimpose customs restrictions on the chemicals' export to S Korea after a S Korea court ruled that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) had to pay compensation for slave labour employed during WW2 & the colonisation of the Korean peninsula
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  3. Yep Canon & Nikon also have a duopoly in DSLRs
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  4.  @lordlee6473  Heard ASML has now agreed not to sell EUV machines that'll be destined for SK Hynix's fab in Wuxi , China at USA's behest
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