ASML rides Nvidia’s coattails with lasers and huge chip ‘printers’

AMSTERDAM: As artificial intelligence firms jostle for the Nvidia chips needed to power the AI boom, Dutch ‍firm ASML has carved out a key niche in the supply chain: building the laser-using machines needed to print them.

ASML, which counts Taiwan’s TSMC and ⁠Intel amongst its clients, makes the huge precision machines needed to print the minuscule circuitry onto silicon chips, dominating the market for the high-end microprocessors needed for AI.