According to a new report, ASML reportedly offered to provide the United States with information about its Chinese customers. The offer came after it was caught selling more machines that went against an agreement stopping the sales of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) and deep ultraviolet light (DUV) lithography machines to China.
According to NL Times, the Netherlands and the U.S. agreed in January 2023 that the former would stop selling and exporting its DUV lithography machines (with EUV machines already banned) to the U.S. rival starting in September 2023, with the ban taking full effect by January 2024. In the meantime, there was a gentleman’s agreement between the two nations that ASML would only ship a limited number of DUV machines that it was contractually obligated to deliver, and stop further sales of these devices.
