That’s right
ASML Holding N.V. (Netherlands) is the only commercial producer of full EUV lithography systems used in western high-volume chip manufacturing.
Chip manufacturer companies (TSMC, Samsung, Intel, SK hynix, Micron ) do not make EUV machines .
However they need EUV tools (almost exclusively from ASML) to fabricate chips.
Could be funny
3 Bloomberg: That news sent shares of #chip-equipment maker #ASMLHolding to a record high, with its #marketvalue topping $500 billion. #ASML has grown to be Europe’s most valuable company as the only producer of the cutting-edge #lithography machines that #TSMC needs … 🧵
Japan’s Nikkei 225 opened higher, tracking gains in US tech stocks after strong earnings from ASML Holding, with semiconductor shares leading the advance and the dollar-yen rate easing to 150.720.
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European stocks open lower as tech sell-off continues globally, with ASML Holding shares dropping over 3% amid persistent risk-off sentiment and U.S. tariff concerns
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https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=52114
"[...] a remarkably complex process that involves hitting molten tin droplets in midflight with a powerful CO2 laser. The laser vaporizes the tin into a plasma, emitting a spectrum of photonic energy"
Modern wafer photolithography is truly a marvel.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-na-euv #asml #ASMLHolding
