ASML

What fuels innovation? 🤔 At ASML, it's a combination of pioneering ideas and expert execution. Our diverse teams unite researchers, developers, architects and assembly technicians – all working together to keep powering technology forward with you.

Most electronics from the 1990s seem obsolete today. But the lithography technology used to make them? As relevant as ever. Here are three technologies we introduced in the 1990s that are still critical for today’s chip manufacturing: 🔧 The PAS 5500: Our breakthrough platform was launched in 1991, and today, about 1800 systems – more than 90% of the systems we’ve ever built – are still operational in the field. ⚡ KrF & ArF light sources: Using smaller wavelengths enables chipmakers to print ever-smaller chip features, so we introduced lithography systems with 248 nm krypton fluoride (KrF) and 193 nm argon fluoride (ArF) laser light sources. Today, at least one of these deep ultraviolet (DUV) technologies is used to make nearly every chip. 🔦 Scanners: By illuminating just a small part of a pattern at a time, scanners enable chipmakers to optimize their imaging better than with steppers that print an entire chip pattern at once. This remains key to accurately printing those ever-smaller chip features. What 90s tech are you still using today?

What's the secret to faster, more powerful microchips? It's all about shrink. Printing smaller chip features means chipmakers can squeeze more transistors onto a chip – and that improves performance, functionality and energy efficiency. CD, or critical dimension, measures a lithography system's ability to deliver shrink. Learn about how we use physics to engineer our lithography systems and push the limits of CD. 🔎👇

At ASML, our innovation has long been driven by chipmakers’ need to print smaller and smaller chip features. Not every chip feature needs to be printed with the highest-resolution lithography system. It’s the most critical layers that rely on the most advanced technology. And if you zoom in on those critical layers, you’ll find the components that make possible everything the chip does: the transistors.

What does giving back to the community look like at ASML? 🌱 From cleanrooms to classrooms, and from food banks to concert halls, our employees are finding meaningful ways to contribute. This is how ASMLers worldwide are using their time and skills to support STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, protect the environment and open doors for future innovators.

How often does luck tip the scales in innovation? 💡 At ASML, the journey to mastering EUV lithography wasn't just about cutting-edge research and relentless effort. Sometimes, even the smallest, most unexpected discoveries can change everything... Here's how a touch of good fortune met brilliant minds to make the seemingly impossible, possible. 🚀

What does it take to make a 'good' microchip? Building a microchip is more than just printing tiny components. It’s also making sure those components are properly connected by aligning layer after layer of circuitry, in chip after chip, on wafer after wafer, with nanoscale precision. And to help us optimize that alignment, we turn to a key quantity: overlay.

The gaming industry will be worth ___ by 2030. Can you fill in the blank? 🤔 From early arcades to today's immersive virtual worlds, the industry's explosive rise can be credited to breakthrough game design and advances in semiconductor technology that enable ever more complex, lifelike experiences. 🎮

🚨 BREAKING: We just reported our Q2 2025 financial results! 👇 📈 Our second-quarter total net sales came in at €7.7 billion, at the top end of our guidance. The gross margin was 53.7%, above guidance, primarily driven by higher upgrade business and one-offs resulting in lower costs. 🔎 We see continued progress in litho intensity, particularly in DRAM, and the introduction of the TWINSCAN NXE:3800E reinforces that momentum. Meanwhile, EUV adoption is advancing as planned, including High NA. This quarter, we shipped the first TWINSCAN EXE:5200B system. 📊 Looking at 2026, we see that our AI customers' fundamentals remain strong. At the same time, we continue to see increasing uncertainty driven by macro-economic and geopolitical developments. Therefore, while we still prepare for growth in 2026, we cannot confirm it at this stage. ➡️ We expect third-quarter total net sales between €7.4 billion and €7.9 billion, with a gross margin between 50% and 52%. We expect R&D costs of around €1.2 billion and SG&A costs of around €310 million. For the full year 2025, we expect a 15% increase in total net sales and a gross margin of around 52%," said ASML President and Chief Executive Officer Christophe Fouquet.

What's the secret formula for real innovation? 💡 At ASML, it starts with building a workplace where everyone can help advance the tech behind everyday life, feel they belong, own their career growth and dare to imagine the seemingly impossible.