[Global Network Reporter Qi Yue] According to Bloomberg News, the CEO of the Dutch lithography machine giant ASML said in an interview at the company headquarters in Wildhofen, the Netherlands on the 25th local time that the US-led strategy against China China's semiconductor export controls will eventually lead to China's successful development of its own technology in the field of high-end chip manufacturing equipment.
Bloomberg reported that Wenningke said that Chinese semiconductor companies "must participate in global competition," so they want to buy equipment that is not made in China. "If they can't get these machines, they will develop them themselves. It takes time, but in the end." They will achieve their goals."
Wennink also said that "the "laws of physics" in China are the same as here, and the more pressure you put on them, the more likely they will work harder" to build lithography equipment that can rival ASML.
When talking about the negative impact of US export control measures, Wennink said that the personnel restrictions announced by the United States in October last year "caused all kinds of problems for individuals and companies", "It is definitely not something to be happy about." matter".
Overall, he said, export controls would "create a level of confusion" that "will affect efficiency and innovation and affect us all".
On October 7 last year, without any prior warning, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed the most extensive restrictions on chip-related exports to China in history.
In addition to prohibiting the export of advanced chips, technology and equipment, "Americans" are also prohibited from supporting the "development or production" of advanced chips in Chinese companies without permission.
In order to comprehensively suppress China's chip industry, the United States is still putting pressure on the Netherlands, requiring it to adopt the same export control measures as the United States on chip equipment.
Facing the coercive policy of the United States, Dutch government officials and high-level ASML have expressed their reluctance to follow the voice of the United States several times.
Schreinermacher said in November last year that the Netherlands would not follow the United States one by one, nor should the United States expect the Netherlands to copy its practice of restricting China in semiconductors.
Later, Schreiner Maher emphasized: "It is important that we defend our interests, including our national security, but also our economic interests." ASML CEO Wennink said in an interview last December , Questioning the "double standard practice" of the United States.
He said it seemed contradictory that U.S. chipmakers could sell the most advanced chips to Chinese customers, while ASML could only sell older chip-making equipment.
Wennink said ASML “has lost enough” by not exporting the latest technology to China.
On January 15 this year, Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Schreiner Macher stated in a TV program in the country that the Netherlands will not hastily accept the new restrictions imposed by the United States on the export of chip manufacturing technology to China.