Intel, TSMC and Samsung invested 465.438 billion euros, 838 million euros and 503 million euros respectively. In the process of R&D, ASML's R&D is actually open and communicative, and they will ask the opinions of these three companies in turn. Because ASML mask aligner's task is to expand Moore's Law as much as possible. Moore's Law was put forward by Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel: under the condition of constant price, the number of components that an integrated circuit can accommodate will double every 18-24 months, and the performance will also double.
From mask aligner's point of view, several countries can produce independently, but at present, no country can achieve the top level by itself. Even the United States and Japan can't do it alone, but the Netherlands has produced the most advanced mask aligner. How did it do it? In fact, the reason is that the Netherlands is only assembling mask aligner, not developing and producing it itself. Now this state-of-the-art mask aligner is an assembly product of an international brand, and all kinds of spare parts are provided by various scientific and technological powers in the world.
Master the core technology. The most advanced EUV lithography technology, ASML has the second largest number of patent applications in the world, which shows that even if the parts are widely outsourced, they still have unremitting pursuit of the core technology. Unique cooperation mode. ASML has a very peculiar rule that only by investing in ASML can he get the priority of supply, which means that his own customers must invest in themselves first. Finally, I hope that China can develop in the chip industry and will not be restricted by foreign countries in the future.