It's not the next Jason Bourne flick. The Veldhoven choke point is way bigger than that.

There is a building in Veldhoven, in the Southern Netherlands, where engineers fire droplets of molten tin through a vacuum chamber 50,000 per second. Each droplet is intercepted by a laser, vaporized into plasma, and impelled to emit light at a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers, less than a thousandth the width of a human hair. The plasma is briefly 40 times hotter than the surface of the sun.The machine that does this work is called an EUV lithography scanner, made by a Dutch company named ASML, t...