This guy is a gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTgrWmOk4q8
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Why ASML won:
They went against standard philosophy -> Standard philosophy is you always have multiple vendors.
ASML went entirely against this, instead they found the best supplier in the world for each one of their critical components, and they signed an exclusivity deal with each one.
So ASML couldn't buy from anyone else, and the company couldn't sell to anyone else.
So China is still trying to catch up, because they are not able to buy ANY of the parts of the stepper.
They went against standard philosophy -> Standard philosophy is you always have multiple vendors.
ASML went entirely against this, instead they found the best supplier in the world for each one of their critical components, and they signed an exclusivity deal with each one.
So ASML couldn't buy from anyone else, and the company couldn't sell to anyone else.
So China is still trying to catch up, because they are not able to buy ANY of the parts of the stepper.
> If I have to advise young people who want to learn a new field - unless it's very new - I advise to look up books before 1965, preferable British books, because in Britain they write with esoteric expertise about a very narrow subject.
> So good books, they have to be old, the author usually has a hyphenated name...
> So good books, they have to be old, the author usually has a hyphenated name...
@cjd if I were to advise young people, I'd just tell them to get their hands dirty. Learn welding or something else that's actually useful. I'd also tell them that this "you can be whatever you want to be, just take a loan and go study" stuff is pure nonsense. But I'm a known misogynist and a drunk, so what do I know ;)
That's good advice just on account of the fact that universities are no longer teaching anything useful as they did 60 years ago.
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1@cjd I'm kinda thing that it's a good advice just because a welder makes 50k a year on average in the States, while your average master of arts in the liberal studies is unemployed and lives on food stamps ;)