ASML says firm will not be chip industry’s bottleneck

AMSTERDAM: Top computer chip equipment maker ASML will not be a ‌bottleneck for the industry, ⁠as ⁠it was early in the decade, its CEO said on Wednesday, pointing to recent investments in capacity and productivity improvements.

Being a bottleneck “is something we will avoid by all possible means; it is essential to maintaining our current position,” CEO Christophe Fouquet told investors at the company’s annual general meeting in the Dutch city of Veldhoven.