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Reuters
Tue, December 9, 2025 astatine 12:16 AM CST 1 min read
AMSTERDAM, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Customers of spot instrumentality shaper ASML see astatine slightest 1 firm with links to the Chinese military, Dutch tv programme Nieuwsuur reported connected Tuesday.
The institution said in a effect that it could not corroborate the report, but that it abides by each export laws, and truthful immoderate instrumentality it has sold was either granted an export licence oregon does not autumn nether restrictions.
Nieuwsuur reported that ASML had sold parts to a subsidiary of state-owned China Electronics Technology Group, an important supplier to the Chinese army.
The study was based at slightest successful portion connected Chinese import and export data. It said ASML has besides sold instrumentality to Shenzhen International Quantum Academy, arsenic good arsenic chipmakers SiEn (Qingdao) and SMBC, a subsidiary of SMIC .
ASML, the biggest shaper of instrumentality utilized to manufacture chips, does not disclose accusation astir its customers.
Chipmakers astir the satellite are known to use its tools, including SMIC, China's biggest chipmaking firm. China was ASML's largest marketplace in 2024, representing 36% of income oregon astir 10 cardinal euros ($11.6 billion) worth.
(Reporting by Toby Sterling, editing by Bart Meijer)
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