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- The Dutch govt is slowly nationalising the chip industry, by making taxes so high no company can survive international competition, and then using this tax money to buy stock in all deep tech companies calling it investing.by jurschreuder
- But luckily Germany saved the world by shutting down their power plants for goodby saddat
- Europe is still going through the hangover from the last night's party - automobile industry, consumer appliances, heavy machinery, democracy, globalism, tourism, single market, EU policies and so on. They are yet to wake up to whatever happened over the past few decades. To be fair, Europe is not a single country or has strong central control like Anerica does.by zkmon
- Happy to hear India got mentioned by the same executive during that conversation. We are just started buying from them. I went to Semicon India 2026, held in delhi last week. The energy was amazing. Really pleasant. all big names including ASML.by ramshanker
- Semiconductor fabs involve a lot of hazardous chemicals, process changes and high energy consumption. Exactly the kind of thing European regulations tend to deter or slow down. Which is somewhat fine if there is nowhere else to build it, but if other places are easier, well...by HPsquared
- What a strangle "Europe is failing!" comment thread, when ASML is a European company selling to all of the factories.by sho_hn
- Just for context, because I was curious: the when they say no orders, that's following 2 known orders in 2024 and 3 in 2025.by viraptor
- It seems to be "dump on Europe" day which I'm sure is popular but lets just stop for a second and ask what the sales of ASML machinery to the US would be without the CHIPS act .... a massive subsidy. Aren't subsidies supposed to be a bad European thing??? I'm confused. Are we free market proponents or planned economy proponents?by t43562