China Memory Giants Stockpiled ASML Scanners: Servicing Ban Is Only Lever Left

China's leading memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, have stockpiled three years of deep ultraviolet lithography machines from ASML to outlast Western export bans; the critical leverage now lies in ASML's ability to service these machines, which require biannual specialist maintenance to sustain production yields.

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