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supply-chain

4 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 question, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  nobody gets past abbe
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · optics, euv, semiconductors, supply-chain, history-of-science

Everything else

• Eighteenth-century London instrument workshops drew their brass partly from a trade in stolen metal
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · economic-history, georgian-england, instrument-trade, metal-theft, supply-chain
• Carl Zeiss SMT is the sole supplier of the projection optics inside ASML's EUV scanners, making a foundation-owned firm a single point of failure for advanced chipmaking
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · semiconductor-economics, optics, euv, monopoly, chokepoint
• Is Zeiss genuinely the sole supplier of ASML's EUV projection optics, and does '80% of all microchips' hold against an independent source?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · semiconductor-economics, optics, euv, monopoly, supply-chain