ASML

📢 We just published our 2025 Annual Report! From key technology milestones to financial progress, and from sustainability commitments to community investment, 2025 marked important steps across our business. 🚀 Explore the highlights 👇

This week, ASML joins our peers and partners at one of the key annual gatherings for the semiconductor industry: SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning in San Jose, California. With nearly 50 first-author and collaborative papers, we’re presenting innovations from throughout our holistic lithography portfolio. Here are three areas we’re focused on: 🔍 2D scaling with EUV: To keep Moore’s Law alive, we’re delivering unprecedented power from our extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source and bringing High NA EUV into high-volume manufacturing. 🧩 Innovative chip design: Chipmakers are looking beyond shrink for ways to pack more performance into their chips, so we’re developing hardware and software to enable approaches such as advanced packaging and 3D integration. 🤖 Adding AI: We're finding innovative ways to apply AI-enabled tools to solving chipmakers’ challenges so they can achieve the resolution and pattern yield they need. And that’s just a taste of what we’ll be sharing. If you’re at SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, make sure to check out our presentations.

Smart devices. Automated transportation. Generative tools. AI is revolutionizing how we live and work. And while this may feel like a recent change, at ASML, we’ve been using AI for nearly two decades to make our people and our technology more effective. Here are three ways we use AI at ASML: 🏭 With embedded AI, our products can process vast amounts of data to enable continuous, integrated chip pattern optimization. 🔧 Our AI tools predict when a system will need maintenance to prevent failures – and support engineers in quickly resolving issues when they occur. 🔁 Automation of workflows and repetitive tasks makes our engineers more effective by focusing their attention where it’s needed. And we’re not done: By expanding our use of AI to accelerate our innovation and strengthen our customer support, we’ll be even better able to meet customers’ patterning challenges.

The Rayleigh criterion tells us that the smaller the wavelength of light a lithography system uses, the smaller the features it can print. Simple in theory, right? In practice, moving to a smaller wavelength presents myriad physics and engineering challenges. When we were developing our extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, choosing the right wavelength was critical to overcoming those challenges – and making the technology a success.

The power of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography lies in its ability to fit billions of nanoscale transistors into a single microchip. With a resolution of just 13 nanometers, our EUV systems push precision printing to the next level – orders of magnitude smaller than the densest book you can find – to power the devices you rely on every day.

The market for microchips is always changing. When consumers spike demand by flocking to new tech trends – from PCs in the 1990s to mobile devices and cloud computing in the 2000s and generative AI today – chipmakers need to increase production. But to make sure they have the lithography equipment they need, we have to start preparing years in advance.

What does our next-gen High NA EUV lithography system deliver for chipmakers? In December, the world’s first TWINSCAN EXE:5200B High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system was successfully installed at Intel. Here’s how the system will help bring High NA EUV into high-volume manufacturing: 🔍 With a resolution of 8 nanometers, the system can print the tiniest features on the most advanced microchips. 📏 The system’s unprecedented 0.7 nanometer overlay helps ensure accurate pattern placement as transistor density increases. 🏭 A throughput of 175 wafers per hour means the system can expose wafers fast enough to meet the demands of volume production. With this performance, the EXE:5200B will reduce chipmakers’ complexity, cost, cycle time and energy consumption so they can continue to drive affordable scaling and keep Moore’s Law alive.

What happens inside a lithography system? 🤔 Chipmakers can't watch chip patterns being printed, but they still need to understand and control the patterning process. That’s where models and measurements come in: By giving chipmakers deep insights into what’s happening in their lithography systems, these techniques enable the critical layers in today’s advanced microchips.

🚨 BREAKING: We just reported our Q4 2025 and full-year 2025 financial results! 👇 📈 Our full-year 2025 total net sales were €32.7 billion, including €9.7 billion in the fourth quarter — a particularly strong period for ASML that included the revenue recognized for two High NA systems. 🤝 "In the last months, many of our customers have shared a notably more positive assessment of the medium-term market situation, primarily based on more robust expectations of the sustainability of AI-related demand. This is reflected in a marked step-up in their medium-term capacity plans and in our record order intake,” said ASML President and Chief Executive Officer Christophe Fouquet. ➡️ "Therefore, we expect 2026 to be another growth year for ASML's business, largely driven by a significant increase in EUV sales and growth in our installed base business sales” Fouquet said. “We continue to invest in people and footprint to support that growth in 2026 and beyond.” 📊 In 2026, we expect first-quarter total net sales between €8.2 billion and €8.9 billion. We expect R&D costs of around €1.2 billion and SG&A costs of around €0.3 billion. 🔉 “For the full year 2026, we expect total net sales to be between €34 billion and €39 billion, with a gross margin between 51% and 53%," Fouquet said.

Developing and manufacturing a microchip is not only incredibly complex – it also requires significant capital investment. So, once a chip goes into mass production, chipmakers need to produce as many good chips as possible to keep the technology they power affordable. That’s why, at ASML, we help chipmakers maximize one of their key metrics: yield.