ASML Berlin AG

ASML Berlin AG designs and builds the lithography systems that allow chipmakers to mass-produce microchip patterns on silicon. Founded in 1984 in the Netherlands, the company supplies the machines, together with hardware, software and services, used by semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Its systems help make chips smaller, faster and more energy efficient.

The company's EUV lithography systems are among the most sophisticated machines ever built and are used to pattern advanced microchips at very small scales. Alongside EUV, ASML produces lithography systems and a full portfolio of supporting hardware and software for chipmaking. Technical work spans lithography systems, EUV lithography, photolithography, patterning on silicon, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

ASML employs over 40,000 people across 60 locations in 16 countries, having grown from modest beginnings as a start-up in a leaky shed in the Netherlands in 1984. Chips produced with its equipment are used in smartphones, medical devices and other modern electronics. The company describes its mission as pushing technology to its limits, and notes that its customers include the world's top chip companies.