one company on the planet can build this machine, and every chip you own depends on it asml, out of the netherlands, makes the machines that print computer chips nvidia, apple, intel, samsung, not one of them can produce a chip without asml somewhere in the chain china burned 43 billion dollars trying to copy it and still hasn’t printed a single working chip the precision sounds made up, picture firing a laser from the moon and landing it on one penny sitting on earth 100,000 parts, 5,000 suppliers, spread across 60 countries, and asml builds barely 15 percent of it in house feed it a full megawatt of power and you get 25 watts of usable light back, the most expensive machine ever made running on the most inefficient light source in history nikon gave up, canon walked away, nobody else got close it began in 1984 in a leaky shed with 31 people, today it’s worth almost 700 billion dollars everyone chasing them sits 10 to 15 years behind, and that gap isn’t shrinking save this o...