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ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan

  * Firms can remotely shut off advanced EUV chip-making machines
  * US officials concerned over risk of conflict to chip industry

WATCH: ASML and TSMC have ways to disable the world's most
sophisticated chipmaking machines. Tom Mackenzie reports.Source:
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By Diederik Baazil, Cagan Koc, and Jordan Robertson
May 21, 2024 at 3:26 AM EDT
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May 21, 2024 at 6:43 AM EDT
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ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways
to disable the world's 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 world's advanced
semiconductors, two of the people said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.

 
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