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AI Summary
- Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) is a breakthrough technology that enables production of the world's most advanced microchips used in AI and other applications.
- Only one company, Dutch firm ASML, can manufacture the advanced machines that use laser-vaporized tin droplets to etch circuits finer than DNA strands.
- The US government restricts these chips from reaching China, and the episode explores how this technological breakthrough nearly didn't happen and was incubated through US innovation.