US ‘suggests’ EU impose a chip export ban on China
US ‘suggests’ EU impose a chip export ban on China ASML is not about to voluntarily leave China, where it has sold a thousand chip-making tools over the decades By JEFF PAO OCTOBER 31, 2022 Dutch firm ASML thinks it gave up enough when it halted exports to China of the world's first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines for mass production (pictured). It wants to keep exporting its older DUV technology despite American entreaties. Photo: ASML The United States reportedly is calling on the European Union to impose a semiconductor export ban on China – but Chinese officials and media doubt the Americans, simply by asking, can persuade the Europeans to give up a highly lucrative export market. Bloomberg reports that the Biden administration is urging the EU to share information and coordinate enforcement to reinforce the United States’s bilateral restrictions on exports to China, similar to what the US and EU did to Moscow earlier this year. That report comes after Alan E