{"id":22354,"date":"2026-06-25T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:00:16","slug":"europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is pushing back on Washington\u2019s chip war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard.<\/p>\n

ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company and the only maker in the world of the sophisticated lithography machines that are used to make cutting-edge AI chips.<\/p>\n

“It’s exceptional that I’m coming here to broadly outline our concerns to Congress,” Sjoerdsma told Bloomberg after the meetings. “The stakes for the Netherlands may be very high.”<\/p>\n

China accounts for 19% of ASML’s net system sales. The MATCH Act would go further than existing controls, extending curbs to ASML’s deep ultraviolet immersion machines on top of the long-standing ban on its most advanced extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, tools reaching China.<\/p>\n

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now relegate as off-limits.<\/p>\n

The bill, introduced in April, hasn’t yet faced a full House or Senate vote; Bloomberg notes it would likely need to be folded into a larger package to pass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard. ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company…<\/p>\n

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