ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company's monopoly: no one is coming for us | TechCrunch
… Today we ship tools to China — allowed by export controls — but it’s a tool we first shipped in 2015. …
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China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself | TechCrunch
… The news of travel restrictions follows a series of escalating economic countermeasures: in 2025, Beijing imposed two rounds of export controls on 14 rare earth materials critical to high-tech military manufacturing, and separately barred state-funded data centers from deploying foreign AI chips. …
Korea's biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data | TechCrunch
… Unlike economies more heavily weighted toward services or software, these countries have long relied on large-scale production, export-driven industries, and highly optimized supply chains. …