{"id":508161,"date":"2026-06-19T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:08:08","slug":"eu-tech-sector-in-peril-after-china-acquires-asml-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508161\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Tech Sector in Peril After China &#8216;Acquires&#8217; ASML Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU technology sector is under serious threat following reports that China has \u201cacquired\u201d a cutting-edge chip manufacturing machine built by Dutch firm ASML.<\/p>\n<p>According to intelligence gathered by the US government, Beijing is said to have somehow obtained one of the company\u2019s Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography machines, violating American trade controls on China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU technology sector is under serious threat following reports that China has \u201cacquired\u201d a cutting-edge chip manufacturing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,114,113,61,60,48975,5688,80,5155],"class_list":["post-508161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microchips","tag-semiconductors","tag-technology","tag-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}