Dutch company ASML — famously the sole producer of the latest photolithography machines for fabricating cutting-edge chips — is under fire for selling hardware to a Chinese defense firm with ties to the ruling party.
Although ASML claims that the technology it sold to Chinese chip manufacturers was old and not able to "produce state-of-the-art chips," as reported by Nos,analysts have still raised concerns over its dealings with a firm developing quantum technologies, which could have implications for military technology development and deployment.
