# ASML HOLDING NV

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## Overview

ASML Holding N.V. is a Netherlands-based semiconductor equipment company that supplies chipmakers with the hardware, software and services used to manufacture microchips. Its core products are lithography systems, including extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and deep ultraviolet (DUV) machines; it also provides metrology and inspection systems that help monitor chip production. ASML describes its purpose as unlocking the potential of people and society by pushing technology to new limits. [1](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml)[2](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/vision-and-mission)[3](https://www.asml.com/en/products)

Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Veldhoven, ASML operates at more than 60 locations worldwide. It reported €32.7 billion in net sales for 2025 and 44,175 employees at year-end. [4](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/history)[5](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/locations)[6](https://www.asml.com/en/investors/annual-report/2025)
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## Products & services

ASML’s principal products are TWINSCAN lithography systems, which project circuit patterns onto silicon wafers. Its extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) range includes the NXE series and the High-NA EXE series. The NXE:3800E is designed for high-volume production and can process 220 wafers per hour; the EXE:5200B uses 0.55 numerical-aperture optics to achieve 8 nm resolution and can process 175 wafers per hour. EUV systems use 13.5 nm light to print particularly fine features. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P151214098)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P151214086)[9](https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twinscan-exe-5200b)[10](https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems)

ASML also supplies deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography systems across argon-fluoride immersion and dry, krypton-fluoride, and i-line technologies. Examples include the NXT:1980Di ArF immersion system for volume production and multiple patterning, the NXT:870B KrF system, and the XT:260 i-line system. Complementary products include YieldStar optical metrology systems for measuring pattern placement and other wafer characteristics, HMI e-beam systems such as the multibeam eScan 1100 for defect inspection, and computational-lithography software for modeling and optimizing patterning. [11](https://www.asml.com/en/products/duv-lithography-systems)[12](https://www.asml.com/en/products/duv-lithography-systems/twinscan-nxt1980di)[13](https://www.asml.com/en/products/metrology-and-inspection-systems)[14](https://www.asml.com/en/products/metrology-and-inspection-systems/hmi-escan-1100)[15](https://www.asml.com/en/products/computational-lithography)

Beyond new equipment, ASML provides support for installed systems, including maintenance, field options and upgrades. Service and field-option sales accounted for approximately 25% of total net sales in 2025. [16](https://www.asml.com/en/products/customer-support)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P151231842)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P151216478)
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## Geographic presence

ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, its largest research-and-development and manufacturing site. Its operations extend across Asia, Europe and North America, with manufacturing, assembly or testing facilities in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, South Korea and Taiwan. The company also maintains customer-facing locations in major semiconductor markets, including China, Japan and Singapore. [5](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/locations)[19](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/locations/veldhoven)[6](https://www.asml.com/en/investors/annual-report/2025)

Sales are concentrated in Asia. In 2025, revenue attributed by customer location totaled €32.67 billion: China accounted for €9.52 billion (29.1%), Taiwan €8.34 billion (25.5%) and South Korea €8.16 billion (25.0%). The United States contributed €4.09 billion (12.5%), Japan €1.42 billion (4.3%), Singapore €0.61 billion (1.9%) and EMEA €0.52 billion (1.6%); the Netherlands was reported separately at €4.7 million. [20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/000162828026011378/R14.htm)
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## Business segments

ASML reports **one operating and reportable segment**, encompassing its lithography, metrology and inspection systems and related services. EUV, DUV and metrology and inspection are product categories within that segment, not separately reported segments.[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P96403823)

On a product-and-service basis, EUV systems accounted for approximately 36% of 2025 net sales, DUV systems for 37%, and metrology and inspection systems for 2.5%; service and field options contributed the remaining 25%.[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17370294)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6068669) EUV is used to pattern critical layers of advanced chips, while DUV includes immersion and dry lithography systems. Metrology and inspection products measure patterned features and help control lithography processes.[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75319790)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104589299)
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## Company history

ASML began in 1984 as ASM Lithography, a joint venture between Philips and ASM International formed to commercialize wafer-stepper technology. It introduced the PAS 5500 lithography platform in 1991 and went public in 1995. In 2000, ASML launched its first 300 mm TWINSCAN system; the first production dual-wafer-stage TWINSCAN unit was delivered in 2001. [27](https://www.asml.com/en/company/stories/2024/asml-founding-story)[28](https://www.asml.com/en/company/stories/2021/three-decades-of-pas-5500)[29](https://www.asml.com/en/investors/shares)[30](https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2001/tsmc-installs-first-asml-dual-wafer-stage-twinscan-platform)

ASML shipped a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system in 2010. It subsequently acquired Cymer in 2013 to advance EUV light-source development and Hermes Microvision in 2016 to expand into electron-beam inspection. EUV systems entered high-volume chip manufacturing at customer sites in 2019. In 2023, ASML shipped the first modules of its next-generation High-NA EUV system. [4](https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/history)[31](https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2013/asml-completes-acquisition-of-cymer)[32](https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2016/asml-completes-acquisition-of-hmi)[33](https://www.asml.com/en/investors/annual-report/2019/highlights)[34](https://www.asml.com/en/company/stories/2024/5-things-high-na-euv)
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