Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard.<\/p>\n
ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe\u2019s most valuable company and the only maker in the world of the sophisticated lithography machines that are used to make cutting-edge AI chips.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exceptional that I\u2019m coming here to broadly outline our concerns to Congress,\u201d Sjoerdsma told Bloomberg after the meetings. \u201cThe stakes for the Netherlands may be very high.\u201d<\/p>\n
China accounts for 19% of ASML\u2019s net system sales. The MATCH Act would go further than existing controls, extending curbs to ASML\u2019s deep ultraviolet immersion machines on top of the long-standing ban on its most advanced extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, tools reaching China.<\/p>\n
As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools \u2014 gear first shipped about a decade ago \u2014 the same machines the MATCH Act would now relegate as off-limits.<\/p>\n
The bill, introduced in April, hasn\u2019t yet faced a full House or Senate vote; Bloomberg notes it would likely need to be folded into a larger package to pass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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