With US and Western sanctions against its advanced chip manufacturing efforts weighing heavily, China is allegedly stepping up efforts to poach employees from key chip manufacturing equipment providers such as ASML and its suppliers. ASML’s advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) scanners are one-of-a-kind machines indispensable for manufacturing high-end advanced semiconductors. According to a fresh report in the Wall Street Journal, Chinese efforts to scoop up employees from ASML’s key supplier Zeiss have intensified to an extent that Germany’s domestic intelligence authorities have become involved. Zeiss’ lenses are essential to making ASML’s machines that manipulate ultraviolet light to an extent to allow […]
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