Asked about rivals by TechCrunch last month, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said the gap between wanting the technology and having it remains vast, adding that "when you start from scratch, the challenge is enormous."
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acadia11 Market cap aside it’s worth way more than this arbitrary KPI, as the only supplier of EUV tooling in the world, its value is considerably higher … as a single failure point. Nvidia isn’t Nvidia without ASML, TSMC isn’t TSMC without ASML, The kinds of chips they could implement and power available would be years behind where we are now. Reply
umeng2002_2 Single suppliers are a huge strategic threat to our very way of life. Never mind the cost inflation due to a lack of competition. This goes for TSMC, nVidia, Zeiss, etc. Reply
pablo_max3045 Most valuable company "ever"? The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was worth 78 million Dutch guilders, which translates to $7.9 trillion. You know, the company that literally invented the stock market concept. Reply
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