Comments by "genuinenness befitting" (@genuinennessbefitting4734) on "How Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry Won" video.
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@planesrift The United States allows it. What nonsense are you talking about?
The United States not only betrayed Taiwan twice in the 1970s but also suppressed Taiwan in this decades-long high-tech competition.
In 2002, two Japanese companies, Nikon and Canon, monopolized the world's photolithography machine market. At that time, ASML was still a tiny company, relying on orders from TSMC to survive.
Intel established the EUV LCC Alliance to use American dry-type photolithography machines to seize American photolithography machine technology. Major manufacturers such as Motorola, AMD, and IBM were allowed to join the alliance, but TSMC was excluded from the EUV LCC alliance.
Subsequently, TSMC cooperated with ASML and used its immersion lithography technology 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
The United States did not invest a penny in the research and development stage of modern EUV, and no American engineers participated in the research and development.
Immersion lithography technology is TSMC's technology and has made significant contributions to the global semiconductor industry and TSMC's advanced manufacturing processes. It has also allowed TSMC to jump six generations of technology after the 55nm node.
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