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FRANCE. ESSONNE (91) GRIGNY.AMD SHIFT MANAGER (LEFT) AND WAFER FAB TECHNICIAN (RIGHT) PRESENTING 300 MM WAFERS IN 90 NM PROCESS TECHNOLOGY WITH HUNDREDS OF AMD MICROPROCESSORS. THE DIFFERENT COLOURS REFLECT DIFFERENT PROCESS STAGES WITHIN THE HIGHLY COMPLEX MANUFACTURING PROCESS WITH SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF PROCESS STEPS. IN REALITY, WAFERS NEVER WILL BE EXPOSED TO CLEANROOM AIR FOR CONTAMINATION FREE MANUFACTURING REASONS. WAFERS ARE HANDLED IN VACUUM CASSETTES AND A SOPHISTICATED CLEANROOM LOGISTICS CONCEPTS CALLED AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM. Photo by Christophe Lepetit/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dutch Government Tries To Stop ASML From Moving Out

Handout photo dated 2020 shows ASML Cleanroom Assembly in Veldhoven, Netherlands. The Dutch government is scrambling to ensure that the country’s largest company, the semiconductor equipment maker ASML, does not move operations or expand abroad after the tech firm voiced concerns over the country’s hardening stance on migrants. For months, ASML, which sources parts from around the world but assembles its machines in Veldhoven in the the south of the Netherlands, has been warning against any moves that could hinder its ability to attract skilled foreign labour. The company mostly imports its parts from different countries, but builds its machines in the south of the country, in Veldhoven. Currently, the company is reported to be considering France as an alternate location to The Netherlands. Photo by ASML via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dutch Government Tries To Stop ASML From Moving Out

Handout photo dated April 2019 shows ASML Cleanroom Assembly in Veldhoven, Netherlands. The Dutch government is scrambling to ensure that the country’s largest company, the semiconductor equipment maker ASML, does not move operations or expand abroad after the tech firm voiced concerns over the country’s hardening stance on migrants. For months, ASML, which sources parts from around the world but assembles its machines in Veldhoven in the the south of the Netherlands, has been warning against any moves that could hinder its ability to attract skilled foreign labour. The company mostly imports its parts from different countries, but builds its machines in the south of the country, in Veldhoven. Currently, the company is reported to be considering France as an alternate location to The Netherlands. Photo by ASML via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dutch Government Tries To Stop ASML From Moving Out

Handout photo dated 2020 shows ASML Cleanroom Assembly in Veldhoven, Netherlands. The Dutch government is scrambling to ensure that the country’s largest company, the semiconductor equipment maker ASML, does not move operations or expand abroad after the tech firm voiced concerns over the country’s hardening stance on migrants. For months, ASML, which sources parts from around the world but assembles its machines in Veldhoven in the the south of the Netherlands, has been warning against any moves that could hinder its ability to attract skilled foreign labour. The company mostly imports its parts from different countries, but builds its machines in the south of the country, in Veldhoven. Currently, the company is reported to be considering France as an alternate location to The Netherlands. Photo by ASML via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dutch Government Tries To Stop ASML From Moving Out

Handout photo dated February 2020 shows ASML Cleanroom Assembly in Veldhoven, Netherlands. The Dutch government is scrambling to ensure that the country’s largest company, the semiconductor equipment maker ASML, does not move operations or expand abroad after the tech firm voiced concerns over the country’s hardening stance on migrants. For months, ASML, which sources parts from around the world but assembles its machines in Veldhoven in the the south of the Netherlands, has been warning against any moves that could hinder its ability to attract skilled foreign labour. The company mostly imports its parts from different countries, but builds its machines in the south of the country, in Veldhoven. Currently, the company is reported to be considering France as an alternate location to The Netherlands. Photo by ASML via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows Recovery team members prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is transferred to a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen en route to the cleanroom, Sunday, September 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is lowered into the parking lot in front of the cleanroom hangar by helicopter, Sunday, September 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows On Scene Commander of Recovery Jasmine Nakayama attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, September 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows On Scene Commander of Recovery Jasmine Nakayama attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, September 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Osiris-REx Returns Sample Of Asteroid To Earth

Handout photo shows On Scene Commander of Recovery Jasmine Nakayama attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, September 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 30, 2016 of what looks like a teleporter from science fiction being draped over NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is actually a "clean tent." The clean tent protects Webb from dust and dirt when engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland transport the next generation space telescope out of the relatively dust-free cleanroom and into the shirtsleeve environment of the vibration and acoustics testing areas. In two years, a rocket will be the transporter that carries the Webb into space so it can orbit one million miles from Earth and peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observ

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated May 16, 2017 of the towering primary mirror of NASAs James Webb Space Telescope stands inside a cleanroom at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it will undergo its last cryogenic test before it is launched into space in 2018. In preparation for testing, the wings of the mirror (which consist of the three segments on each side) were spread open. This photo shows one fully deployed wing, and one that is moments from being fully deployed. An engineer observes the move. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 26, 2013 of The robotic arm lifts and lowers a golden James Webb Space Telescope flight spare primary mirror segment onto a test piece of backplane at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. While the team practices the positioning that will be done on the actual telescope in the cleanroom, Dave Sime, an assembly crew chief, inspects the mirror placement from the underside of the backplane. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telesc