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Semiconductor chips, the essential building blocks of the digital world, are at the center of a brewing conflict. The Netherlands, home to the world's most valuable chip tool maker ASML, followed Japan and the U.S. in unveiling details of new controls that could reduce exports of the technology to China. But at the same time, this move is expected to have significant implications for the Dutch chip equipment makers. Dai Kaiyi takes a deeper look.