Europe’s biggest producer of advanced chipmaking technology has joined the United States in its escalating standoff with China
. The Netherlands announced Wednesday, via a letter from its trade minister to parliament, that new restrictions on overseas sales of semiconductor technology were needed to protect national security. While the letter didn’t name ASML Holdings, Europe’s biggest tech firm, the curbs will affect the Dutch company, which is a key supplier to global chipmakers, including those in China.
It also restricted the ability of American citizens to provide support for the development or production of chips at certain manufacturing facilities in China. Chips are vital for everything from smartphones and self-driving cars to advanced computing and weapons manufacturing. Veldhoven-based ASML is a global leader in the production of lithography machines, which employ light to print patterns on silicon.
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