The 37-year-old company is the only firm in the world capable of making the highly-complex machines that are needed to manufacture the most advanced chips.
. Each machine reportedly has over 100,000 components and it takes 40 freight containers or four jumbo jets to ship. Last year, ASML sold just 31 of these enormous pieces of equipment, according to its financials.
Transistors are one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics and they enable an electric current to flow around a circuit. Generally speaking, the more transistors you can fit onto a chip, the more powerful and efficient that chip will be. "ASML is absolutely critical to the entire semiconductor ecosystem," Peter Hanbury, a semiconductor analyst at Bain & Co, told CNBC. "In some ways it's just as important as TSMC."
"ASML has around 4,000 suppliers that they're aware of and their suppliers have suppliers as well," said Miller.The mirrors, for example, are made by German firm Zeiss in partnership with ASML and they're the flattest structures humans have ever made. The light source in ASML's EUV machine emits tiny balls of tin, about 30 microns wide, that are blasted twice by the world's most powerful carbon dioxide lasers. The first blast "gets it ready" and the second, stronger pulse turns it into a plasma which is 400,000 degrees Fahrenheit in temperature, Miller said.
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