Back in July, I posted about a machine made by ASML, The most important machine in Apple’s universe.
From that post:
The complex machine is widely acknowledged as necessary for making the most advanced chips, an ability with geopolitical implications. The Trump administration successfully lobbied the Dutch government to block shipments of such a machine to China in 2019, and the Biden administration has shown no signs of reversing that stance.
ASML makes the chip lithography machine that TSMC uses to produce Apple Silicon.
The tweet embedded below starts a thread filled with data, images, and video on ASML and that oh, so vital machine. A fascinating read.
1/ What *exactly* does ASML sell?
— Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (@TrungTPhan) August 22, 2021
Its key product is an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machine, which uses advanced light technology to "print" tiny circuits onto Silicon wafers.
Only ~50 are made a year and ASML has a near monopoly on the machine technology. pic.twitter.com/M6xL6QiDzX