• Feniksrises@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The reason why Japanese companies pulled out is because the Japanese economy crashed.

    ASML was never really smarter than everyone else they just managed to bleed money longer. They won in the boardroom not the lab.

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        1 year ago

        The year 1995. It took 15 years for Japan to reach the same GDP. It’s GDP is once again below that level and in constant decline.

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          1 year ago

          Except that the major Japan vs USA/ASML EUV race was ramping up in the late 90s through to about 2010. Canon hit the wall around 2008 during the global financial crisis that rocked the US just as hard if not harder, Nikon kept limping until signaling defeat and cutting back around 2011 or so. The 1995 Japanese economic crash is very real but it had no effect on the EUV race since that was decided a decade later.

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              1 year ago

              You miss the point of my comment. Japan was ramping UP funding and organization around EUV in the late 90s and early 00s. The exact opposite effect of what you are implying. The financial crunch only arrived a decade later.

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                1 year ago

                It all didn’t just fall to the ground and break. Plenty of industries saw the effects late.