ASML ensures the supply of chip foundry equipment, enabling semiconductor manufacturers to accelerate production.

High NA EUV lithography scanners, the size of a truck and costing over 300 million euros each, are essential equipment for the world's leading chip manufacturers to build smaller and more powerful microprocessors for the next decade.

The Dutch chip foundry equipment manufacturer holds a key position in the global semiconductor industry.

ASML, Europe's largest technology company, is leading the lithography market, a crucial link in the semiconductor manufacturing process where focused beams of light are used to create electrical circuits.

“Some component suppliers have had difficulty meeting our requirements for the appropriate technological quality, resulting in some delays,” Wennink said. “However, the company is still confident in delivering the first shipments this year.”

To date, only TSMC, Intel, Samsung, memory chip manufacturer SK Hynix, and Micron have been equipped with the advanced lithography equipment (EUV standard version) from the Dutch company. These devices are the size of a bus and cost 200 million euros each.

Under pressure from the US government , the Netherlands is currently not granting ASML licenses to export EUV machines to Chinese chip manufacturers.

Meanwhile, China has just signaled that it is still making certain advances in semiconductors even without ASML's machinery.

Huawei and SMIC, two leading technology companies in mainland China, have launched the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, which uses a domestically produced chip based on a 7-nanometer (nm) process, only about two generations behind the latest processors currently available.

However, experts believe that China has reached its semiconductor development limit as it can no longer access more advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. For example, Apple's iPhone 14 chips are manufactured using a 4nm process, while the iPhone 15 generation uses a 3nm process. All of Apple's chips are manufactured using ASML equipment.

(According to Reuters and Bloomberg)

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