GCEIP 500 Global rank #78 · Netherlands
ASML: the specialist equipment maker at the frontier of chip production
ASML makes the lithography systems that chipmakers use to print tiny circuit patterns onto silicon wafers.
The company
What it does
ASML is a Dutch technology company and a major supplier of lithography systems for semiconductor manufacturers. Its equipment uses light to create increasingly fine patterns in the production of integrated circuits.
Across markets
Advanced lithography is one of the processes that allows chipmakers to increase transistor density and improve performance. ASML’s systems are therefore part of the supply chain behind computing, communications and AI hardware. The technology is difficult to build and globally consequential, but its effect depends on customers’ manufacturing yields, chip design and the energy required to operate data-centre products.
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GCEIP view
What the record tells us
GCEIP sees ASML’s role as a rare industrial capability with effects far beyond the Netherlands. Its specialised equipment sits at a bottleneck in advanced chip production, giving the company strategic weight across the technology sector. The contribution is measured by the manufacturing capabilities it enables, alongside the resilience and responsible management of a concentrated supply chain.
Published recognition
Selected results
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- TIME100 Most Influential Companies · 2025View source
TIME100 Companies selection
Named by TIME editors among 105 businesses for company-specific influence, impact, innovation, ambition or success; analysis of the specific business case pending