India, Nov. 12 -- While China is racing to close the lithography gap with homegrown tools from Huawei-linked SiCarrier and Yuliangsheng, the reality is that extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography remains an entirely different universe. Machines capable of printing sub-5nm chips are not just complex-they're the pinnacle of global scientific collaboration.

Take ASML, the Dutch firm that holds a virtual monopoly in EUV. With Intel, TSMC, and Samsung as its main clients, ASML's dominance isn't merely about technological leadership-it's about an ecosystem that no country can replicate overnight.

As Focus: The ASML Way reveals, ASML doesn't exactly build EUV scanners-it conducts them like a symphony. Instead of crafting the optics, light sourc...