Europe’s irreplaceable innovator: ASML’s CEO on powering the digital future

Christophe Fouquet, CEO of ASML, tells Jean-François Manzoni how the world’s only EUV lithography machine maker became Europe’s most indispensable company – and what comes next.

Few companies can claim to sit at the center of modern technological progress. ASML is one of them. The Dutch multinational is the only company in the world capable of producing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines – the technology behind the smallest, fastest, and most powerful semiconductor chips.

Without ASML, the world’s most advanced computing systems, from AI data centers to smartphones, simply would not exist. Tune in to find out more.

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