AMSTERDAM, Jan 28 (Reuters) - ASML has become Europe's most valuable company thanks to its dominance in making lithography systems, huge "chip printing" machines that cost $250 million each and are ...

There should be few companies better placed to benefit from the artificial-intelligence boom than ASML Holding. The Dutch company has a near-monopoly on the specialized lithography machines used to ...

AI spending is expected to stay elevated in 2026.

The company logged record quarterly orders, showing how tech clients continue to plow money into tools for making sophisticated semiconductors.

Luc Van den Hove, CEO of the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre in Belgium, emphasizes the importance of these machines, stating they provide "patterning precision, scalability, and energy ...