HISTORICAL FACTS: 6 - Caught on Camera

ASML’s $8B Deal: More Than a Purchase, It's a Prophecy

ASML's recent deal with a major memory chipmaker confirms its essential role in the accelerating, multi-year buildout of artificial intelligence hardware.

MarketBeat · Mar 25

SK hynix places record $8 billion order for ASML EUV lithography machines — should pay for up to 30 EUV machines over two years, serving HBM and advanced DRAM production

SK hynix disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it will purchase 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) worth of EUV lithography equipment from ASML.

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 24

Microsoft-backed start-up raises $40 million for helium atom beam lithography that could print chips at atomic resolution — 0.1nm beam is 135 times narrower than ASML's EUV light

Lace Lithography raised $40 million in Series A funding on Monday to develop a chipmaking tool that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to pattern silicon wafers.

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 24

China's top chip execs claim ASML alternative 'small, fragmented, and weak' — Chinese industry titans call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools

China's most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 5

The company behind the machines that make pretty much all our computer chips reckons it has worked out how to increase production capacity by 50%

All it takes is a little more light...

PC Gamer · Feb 24

ASML makes breakthrough in EUV chipmaking tech, plans to increase speed by 50% by 2030 — new 1,000-watt light source fires three lasers at 100,000 tin droplets every second

ASML to use a new CO2 laser system and tin droplet generator to increase EUV light source performance to 1000W and lithography tool productivity to 330 wafers per hour in 2030 and beyond.

Tom’s Hardware · Feb 24

The Supply Chain Quietly Powering the AI Boom—And 4 Ways to Play It

Get a clear map of the nanotech stack behind AI chips—lithography, fabrication tools, and ultra-pure materials—and why these suppliers matter for long-term investors.

MarketBeat · Feb 23

These 5 Stocks Are at the Center of the AI Supply Squeeze

AI adoption is accelerating globally, but infrastructure buildout is lagging, creating bottlenecks across memory, chips, data centers, and power.

MarketBeat · Feb 23

It’s ‘Time to Shine’ for Applied Materials Stock, According to Analysts. Should You Buy AMAT Here?

The semiconductor equipment maker crushed expectations and delivered guidance that has Wall Street buzzing about a multi-year growth cycle.

Barchart · Feb 18

New Leveraged ETFs Are Just More ‘Bull Crap’ to Me. Here’s the Real Red Flag Investors Are Missing.

Direxion just launched four new 2x leveraged ETFs. I’m sick of investors chasing leverage – and here’s why.

Barchart · Feb 13