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• Dutch company Founded in 1984 (33 years ago)
• Headquarters: Veldhoven, Netherlands
• Manufactures Photolithography equipment for printing circuits on 300mm wafers using a light source
• 60-70 offices in over 16 countries
• 17,000 Employees
• 8 Billion in Revenue
• 1.2 Billion in R&D spend per year
• Approximate 85% market share (Key Competitors: Nikon & Cannon)
• DUV: Mature products / EUV: Cutting edge “new” products
• DUV: Deep Ultraviolet Lithography
• EUV: Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
• New technology – 3400 EUV machine (Size of a city bus)
• Primary customers: Chip makers like: Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung etc..
• 120 million per “unit cost”
• ASML machines are one of many in a series of different machines in a FAB used in the microchip manufacturing process
• Key driver in the forward progression of “Moore’s Law” (Gordon Moore – founder of Intel 1965)