Comments by "genuinenness befitting" (@genuinennessbefitting4734) on "Europe’s Plan to Invest in Semiconductors" video.

  1. In 2002, two Japanese companies, Nikon and Canon, monopolized the world's photolithography machine market. At that time, ASML was still a small company, relying on orders from TSMC to survive. Intel established the EUV LCC Alliance to develop photolithography machines using American dry methods and seize American photolithography machine technology. Major manufacturers such as Motorola, AMD, and IBM are allowed to join the alliance, but TSMC is excluded from the EUV LCC alliance. Subsequently, TSMC cooperated with ASML and used the immersion lithography technology developed by TSMC to conduct research and development at F12B, the TSMC R&D headquarters located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. At that time, there were two EUV R&D units in the world, but Intel's EUV LCC alliance failed. TSMC spent 1 million wafers for testing at the F12b factory and finally successfully created EUV for manufacturing advanced chips. Dr. Anthony Yen, Director of Nanoimaging Technology Development at TSMC, later served as Vice President of R&D at ASML https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Alums/OECE/2018/anthony-yen
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  2. Europe never has been an important chip producer, back in 90s, Japan was the biggest player not Europe.
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  3. Semiconductor is a capital-intensive industry, and labor cost is not a critical cost factor, so why is Europe's semiconductor outsourced to other areas? Do we talk about the same chip industry, or is Europe weird to outsource components for irrelevant reasons?
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