{"id":248233,"date":"2026-06-25T00:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:08:36","slug":"europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is pushing back on Washington&#8217;s chip war | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/8170\" target=\"_blank\">MATCH Act<\/a>, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe\u2019s 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s exceptional that I\u2019m coming here to broadly outline our concerns to Congress,\u201d Sjoerdsma <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-24\/netherlands-lobbies-us-to-drop-chip-curbs-targeting-asml-sales\" target=\"_blank\">told Bloomberg<\/a> after the meetings. \u201cThe stakes for the Netherlands may be very high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China accounts for 19% of ASML\u2019s net system sales. The MATCH Act would go further than existing controls, extending curbs to ASML\u2019s deep ultraviolet immersion machines on top of the long-standing ban on its most advanced extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, tools reaching China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/05\/asml-ceo-christophe-fouquet-no-one-is-coming-for-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told TechCrunch<\/a> in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools \u2014 gear first shipped about a decade ago \u2014 the same machines the MATCH Act would now relegate off limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill, introduced in April, hasn\u2019t 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<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/24\/europe-is-pushing-back-on-washingtons-chip-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s most valuable company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}