>>507504212> Colgate flag coping.It's going to happen, this is what happens to ALL tech. Think about the steam engine, invented and hoarded by the Anglos. This was more cutting edge than even EUV chips and way more impactful because steam engines directly translated to far higher economic and military power. The French and Germans, who did not have a cultural acceptance of Empiricism (they were still stuck in Continental Philosophy at the time) sent spies into Britain to try and steal Anglo tech.
But despite being cutting edge, all nations on Earth eventually developed their own, and built gargantuan infrastructure around (This is like straight up nation building levels of investment).
Unironically, the level of investment required to roll out steam engine tech makes ASML tech look like a drop in the bucket.
And now we have many other techs that have largely replaced the steam engine traditional tech but still retaining the old steam tech principles and various scientific theories that made it possible.
Likewise, EUV tech will become ubiquitous, and it will be replaced by more advanced tech but the principles of chip technology will likely persist for some time.
It's not even a matter of if, but when, and that when is coming very soon as EUV tech becomes obsolete simply due to physics benefitting alternative tech.