ASML’s Worst Nightmare Is Finally Taking Shape in China

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• CH

  @chuckalison4581 · 1 month ago

  I'm not mad at China. The underdog overcoming adversity is the most American thing ever.

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• AD

  @adolphdooley3632 · 1 month ago

  China has “ENGINEERS” to create technology; the United States has “LAWYERS” to use laws to stop technology from being created.

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• IC

  @IceCream-8888 · 1 month ago

  Necessity is the mother of invention.<br>Impossible is Possible <br>🇨🇳

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• RA

  @rafraf4725 · 1 month ago

  It is just so incredible. &nbsp;<br>We got used to it. The phones, the chips, etc. It is only when you stop and really think about it how incredibly small those things are. I mean... I don&apos;t think we can truly comprehend it.

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• AL

  @alex2792 · 1 month ago

  The number one problem facing the U.S. (and largely Western Europe) is the fact that China is run by really smart people while the so called “democracies” are run by exceptionally stupid and corrupt clowns.

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• AL

  @alminswedish1073 · 1 month ago

  I welcome any progress that China makes in any technology. USA and other western countries have no right to actively sabotage China, that is outright criminal. Go China!

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• TV

  @tvftheventuresfile · 1 month ago

  Crazy how fast China is moving on this. ASML still has a huge lead, but I wouldn’t bet on that gap staying this wide forever.

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• AS

  @asia_2050 · 1 month ago

  Developing domestic EUV and advanced DUV lithography isn&apos;t just about optics—it&apos;s mastering laser-produced plasma, ultra-pure chemical resists, and sub-nanometer mirror precision simultaneously. ASML’s real moat was a 30-year global supply chain integration, and trying to recreate that within a single border is an unprecedented engineering challenge.

• MI

  @michaelhuang2477 · 1 month ago

  Allow me to give you a parallel: everytime we develop new antibiotics, antibiotic and resistance emerges get bacteria that would normally susceptible. No matter how hard we fight bacteria always fight back. What this video is demonstrating is called selection pressure. Once you introduce selection pressure, something will rise to the challenge and overcome that pressure.

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• KA

  @kaizokou7572 · 1 month ago

  Well there&apos;s a key difference when ASML did it. Now they know it&apos;s possible, ASML didnt even know if it was possible when they stared

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  @51mm5 · 1 month ago

  The nail comparison really got me.

• WA

  @Wanderers-Bulgaria · 1 month ago (edited)

  Fact-Check on the Fingernail Growth:<br>​<br>​• 1 Å = 0.0000001 mm (10^-7 mm)<br>• 5,000,000 Å/s = 0.5 mm every single second<br>• In 1 day (86,400 s): 0.5x86,400 = 43,200 mm = 43.2 meters (141 feet) of nail per day!<br><br>​In reality, human fingernails grow about 3 to 3.5 mm per month (~1 nm/s or ~10 Å/s), not 5 million Å/s.<br><br>The claim of 5,000,000 Å/s is FALSE (off by a factor of roughly 500 000 times).

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