ASML
ASML · NASDAQ (ADR) · Technology · Semiconductor Equipment · Lithography
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WHAT IT DOES
ASML builds lithography machines — the room-sized instruments that print billions of transistors onto silicon. Its most advanced (EUV) machines use technology no competitor has replicated, at any price.
HOW IT MAKES MONEY
Selling machines at hundreds of millions of dollars each, then servicing and upgrading an installed base that runs for decades. Every fab expansion anywhere on Earth eventually places an order in the Netherlands.
WHY WE TRACK IT
One layer deeper than TSMC: if the foundry is the chokepoint of chips, ASML is the chokepoint of the chokepoint. Its backlog is the longest-dated read on semiconductor conviction that exists.
THE SIMPLE THESIS
The only true monopoly in the AI supply chain. The question is never competition — it is how fast customers can absorb machines, and what governments allow it to sell, and where.
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