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ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the worlds most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter...
Officials from the US government have privately expressed concerns to both their Dutch and Taiwanese counterparts about what happens if Chinese aggression escalates into an attack on the island responsible for producing the vast majority of the worlds advanced semiconductors, two of the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity...
ASML reassured officials about its ability to remotely disable the machines when the Dutch government met with the company on the threat, two others said..
The remote shut-off applies to Netherlands-based ASMLs line of extreme ultraviolet machines, known within the industry as EUVs, for which TSMC is its single biggest client..
TSMC Chairman Mark Liu hinted in a September interview with CNN that any invader of Taiwan would find his companys chipmaking machines out of order...
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