ASML is the Dutch company that makes the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines used to print the most advanced chip circuits, and it is the sole global supplier of the newest generation of these machines. Without ASML's equipment, no foundry, not TSMC, Samsung, or Intel, can manufacture cutting-edge logic or memory chips, which gives the company an effective monopoly at the top of the semiconductor supply chain. Long order backlogs and multi-year lead times for its machines make ASML a key bottleneck, and sometimes a bellwether, for how fast the rest of the chip industry can expand.
CEO Christophe Fouquet · Founded 1984 · Listed True · HQ Veldhoven, Netherlands · Exchange NASDAQ · Euronext Amsterdam · Website asml.com