Creating a version of an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is very difficult, no one has done it, and no one is even trying to do it, so controls on the software tools and machine tools would have a meaningful impact in slowing down China's semiconductor capabilities.
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“creating your own version of an extreme ultraviolet tool is not easy. In fact, it's very, very hard. No one's done it. No one's even trying to do it, so far as we're really aware”
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Professor Chris Miller - “Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology”— MIT Security Studies ProgramCreated: 8/11/2026, 1:42:53 AM
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