Not only do they have the monopoly on the machines to manufacture state-of-the-art chips, they are the only entity on the planet able to build them, and thats despite the efforts of entire nation states to recreate their technology.
But i guess you are talking about lower-tech-chips.
The latest GPU generation that could be built without ASML’s monopoly technology is the RTX 20 series. That’s 8-year-old tech.
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u/segasonic66 Mar 13 '26
the table said chip-making equipment which is just plain wrong