Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips" video.

@transformerstuff7029 The world isn't in trouble. Anyone who doesn't have this technology is in trouble, because no matter what agreements they have they are at the mercy of the countries that have this technology. When your society requires a specific technology just to function you are at the mercy of who supplies that technology. Its why the Chinese captured and trapped the Rare Earths industry. Its why other countries have done the same in other spaces.
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@Alvin Walker Sorry mate but like many other people in the world you are under the false apprehension that anything can just be reverse engineered and that's just NOT TRUE. Sorry for the long answer, but its not just for you it for anyone else wondering. I have degree in aerospace and 30+ years work in automation, control systems and robotics. Some stuff just can't be reverse engineered even when you know that task. It could be a lack of skills, knowledge or resources. Some things are just hard to do. I see it in robotics and CNC all the time. Yes there's been some extraordinary advances that make stuff easy for people to do. But once you start chasing precision its just keeps getting harder. A good example is respirators. Early in the COVID pandemic there was a world wide shortage of respirators and there were many announcements from a variety of amateurs and professionals. There's a YT channel called Real Engineering that's hosted y an engineer who once worked at one of the worlds largest manufacturers of respirators. He did a video on how respirators HAVE to work. It wasn't just what they do but HOW and WHY they do what they have to do. All the amateurs and professionals missed the fact that respirators aren't just an air pump they are hyper-precision air pump. They have to be because they are helping an already gravely ill person possibly with lung damage stay alive. That requires extremely accurate pressure and flow sensors that require very specialised electronics to read them. That alone makes them hard but then you also need software that's super reliable and a pump that can be precisely controlled. Its not impossible its just damn hard and can't be done with normal industrial parts which was what so many people proposed. If you aske the simple question - can it be reversed engineered? The answer is always yes, but that doesn't answer the question of how hard it is to do. That respirator company the guy from Real Engineering worked for released free to the world an older already certified respirator design. All anyone had to do was sign an agreement on the intellectual property and they could just start manufacturing respirators. The problem was many countries just didn't have the skills to make respirators or they couldn't get some of the parts. PLUS in many cases countries didn't have enough nurses trained to the level needed to operate & monitor respirators. This Dutch chip machinery isn't one technology its a collection of hyper-precision technologies anyone of which would be incredibly difficult to reverse engineer even if they handed over all the details and design documentation.
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