Samo Burja

Founder of Bismarck Analysis and writer of the Bismarck Brief. Author of two named Tier-2 pieces the vault cites as its primary independent theoretical grounding for the ASML/Zeiss EUV mirror advantage: "The Tradition of Knowledge Behind ASML" (2023) and "Carl Zeiss' Tradition of Knowledge in Optics" (2025, paywalled beyond its preview). Burja frames ASML/Zeiss's capability as "intellectual dark matter" — tacit, cross-organizational know-how traceable back to Philips's NatLab labs in the 1970s — and names Martin van den Brink as its living carrier. Also supplies the corroborating later chapter (Nikon's abandoned 2008 EUV prototype) for the vault's correction of the Nikon/Canon exclusion story.

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• claim-nikon-canon-euv-exclusion-was-consortium-politics-not-failed-imitation