ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan
www.bloomberg.com
ASML Holding and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most advanced chip-making machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familair with the matter.
  • @Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -4•7 months ago

    Again, if THATS the case, then you just find your own parameters and experiment with your pwn till its right. You don’t give up on the last car on earth if you’re a mechanic and they took the battery out. You find another that’s compatible or research how you could make your own.

    Saying that a “company” with “trade secrets” is just a dumb patent road block to scare off consumers

    • RichardEnglish
      10•7 months ago

      You underestimate how extremely complex semiconductor photolithography is. It is the most complex manufacturing process ever conceived by humans to produce the most complex systems ever built by humans.

    • gian English
      5•7 months ago

      The fact is these are high tech machines. To follow your example with the car, you don’t need to replace the battery but an ECU, for which there are no available design and you have no idea how to build it.
      Add to this that probably if you make a mistake in your try, you destroy the machine.

      Basically what ASLM is saying is that they can brick the machine with a software update and even if not bricked the machine cannot run long without specialized maintenance and spare parts (that they obviously will not provide anymore). True, China can try to clone them, but even if/when understand how to make them, you then need to make them, a thing which seems out of question for now for China (else they already would have such machines).