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ASML is a Dutch company that makes photolithography systems, including the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines essential for advanced chip manufacturing.
Chinese startup Langdao Silex displayed a laser-produced-plasma EUV source rated above 15W with 90% domestic components, Tom's Hardware reported. TrendForce, citing various sources, says commercializing it needs another three to five years.
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Besi shares fell 3% to 158.50 euros after SemiAnalysis read 27 ASML patent filings as evidence of a hybrid bonding tool. ASML has not confirmed the tool, so the market is pricing a patent count.
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Nvidia's slice of China's data center chip market fell to 34% over the first six months of 2026, according to IDC data cited by Reuters. Its AI accelerator shipments dropped 44% from a year earlier, a fall that fits the backfire argument critic Rakesh Kumar makes in Fortune.
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ASML said on Oct 14 that its 2027 and 2028 supply will not fully meet demand even after planned 30% capacity increases in both years. Some customers are also asking to order for 2029 and 2030, which ASML calls interest, and it gave no count or value.
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Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank lost 9.5%, 11% and 9.3% in Asia while the 30-year Treasury yield fell 9.1 basis points. The drop added only 2.6% to the present value of a 30-year dollar, so the cause looks like AI borrowing and late revenue, with inflation as an add-on.
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The CoinShares mining ETF WGMI fell 10.7% on October 14 while bitcoin fell roughly 2%, Alpaca market data show. Gartner's neocloud warning and a hotter inflation report arrived the same day, so one session cannot separate them.
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Terafab will reportedly receive its first ASML EUV scanner in mid-2027, months before SemiAnalysis expects the shell of its development fab to be done. That is about three years ahead of the projected volume date at the Grimes County fab.
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Seoul's KOSPI fell 0.44% to 6,008.81 on Oct. 14, its sixth straight daily loss and 14.21% below its Oct. 2 close. Yonhap tied the reversal of a morning gain to ASML, yet that session supplied only 2.7% of the 994.93 points lost.
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MSCI ACWI Ex-US Value beat Growth by over 600 basis points in Q3 and over 850 year to date, ClearBridge said. Over 600 of the roughly 880 basis points came in that one quarter. The lead now depends on how the July AI selloff resolves.
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Bristlemoon Global Fund lost 8.4% in the September 2026 quarter, net of fees, though ASML, Sandisk and Lam Research helped in September. Its manager blames a narrow market, with the S&P 500 2% off its high and 83% of members more than 10% off theirs.
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ASML will raise prices 10% on every EUV and DUV spare part sold to Samsung and SK Hynix, starting with January 2027 deliveries. 2027 maintenance budgets need a line for it, even though neither source says how much it adds to a fab's operating cost.
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Korea's KOSDAQ rose 4.24% this month through Oct. 11 while the KOSPI fell 3.1%, Korea Exchange figures show. Seoul Economic Daily reported that the buying is concentrated in chip materials and equipment suppliers, so anyone buying the small-cap index is holding a narrow bet on chip spending.
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TSMC's September revenue rose 54.6% from a year earlier to about $16 billion. Sales were 0.6% below August's, CNBC reported, so September's faster growth rate came from a weaker year-ago month while the monthly level held near NT$512 billion.
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Samsung led the 3bn euros at a mark above 21bn, ASML extended High NA commitments to Samsung and TSMC on schedules running out to 2033, and neither disclosure says how large Samsung's cheque actually was, which is the number this turns on.
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CTS counts 343 ASML immersion DUV scanners bought by Chinese fabs since 2012 and says 270 of them can be shifted to 7nm-class work without EUV. For supply planning, that puts export-control risk in the DUV installed base and in how long those machines stay serviced.
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Russia's ZNTC has its first 130nm stepper for 200mm wafers in internal testing, about 25 years after Intel adopted the node. With chipmaker qualification still ahead, Tom's Hardware expects commercial wafers around 2029 at the earliest.
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Chinese-owned chip plants held 343 immersion DUV machines by early this year, about 270 of them ASML NXT:1980i units, a Washington think tank says. Its authors want all new DUV shipments stopped, and a bipartisan bill in Congress would require the Netherlands and Japan to do exactly that.
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Samsung has co-led a EUR 200m round for Euclyd, an Eindhoven chip company founded in 2024, and the chief executive says the Korean group's memory manufacturing and supply-chain reach matter as much as its cash.
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Washington is reportedly telling roughly 35 partners that joining China's WAICO means expulsion. Right now that binds Kazakhstan. The precedent binds anyone with a foot in both blocs.
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Samsung led the €3bn Series D at more than €21bn, a year after ASML led the €1.7bn Series C, and the European Commission's Scaleup Europe Fund co-led it. For buyers, the change shows up in supplier risk before it shows up in the product.
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