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Top computer chip equipment maker ASML said its capacity expansion plans in 2027 and 2028 unveiled on Wednesday along with second-quarter earnings take into account demand for its tools from Elon Musk's planned Terafab chip production facility in Texas. "We're in dialogue with all our customers and we know ... what their building plans are," Chief Financial Officer Roger Dassen said on a call.
Europe's biggest company by market capitalisation, ASML, continues to benefit from the AI boom after raising its full-year net sales forecast to between €43bn and €45bn. Investors welcomed the upgrade, sending the shares up more than 5%.View on euronews

<body><p>STORY: ASML raised its 2026 financial forecasts on Wednesday after better-than-expected Q2 earnings. </p><p>The world's biggest supplier of computer chip manufacturing equipment also said it would increase capacity as AI demand boosts revenue. </p><p>ASML now expects this year's net revenue to reach up to $51 billion, a 16% forecast increase.</p><p>And Q2 revenue hit over $10.6 billion which topped analyst estimates. </p><p>With one calling the earnings “blowout results across the board.”</p><p>The Dutch company is the world's only maker of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) tools, which are essential for making cutting-edge chips. </p><p>Its customers, including TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix, are racing to add capacity for AI-related demand.</p><p>ASML said it intended to expand capacity by 30% in each of the next two years for its flagship EUV tools…</p><p>As well as for deep ultraviolet (DUV) tools needed for less advanced chips and by customers in China.</p><p>Investors liked what they heard from ASML and shares were up over 5% in early trade. </p></body>
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ASML Holding's sales and margin forecasts for the current quarter are above expectations, Jefferies analysts wrote in a note to clients. The Dutch supplier of semiconductor-making equipment is projecting sales between 11 billion and 12 billion euros in the third quarter.
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ASML raised its full-year sales forecast for a second time, after topping top- and bottom-line estimates for the second quarter.
ASML Holding stock has delivered a strong 180.4% return over the past 5 years, yet its current valuation checks send a more measured message rather than a clear bargain signal. A 180.4% 5 year return highlights how strongly ASML Holding has rewarded long term shareholders, which naturally raises the bar for what counts as good value from here. Progress on High NA EUV deployment with Intel and continued demand for advanced lithography tools can support high expectations, while tighter export...
ASML Holding (NasdaqGS:ASML) reported strong Q2 2026 earnings and lifted its full year 2026 sales outlook. Intel has become the first chipmaker to put ASML's next generation High NA EUV lithography systems into production use. The company highlighted AI related demand as a key driver of equipment orders and utilization across its product portfolio. ASML Holding sits at the center of high end chip manufacturing, and the latest results illustrate how critical its tools are for leading...
ASML (NASDAQ:ASML) reported second-quarter 2026 net sales and gross margin above its own guidance, driven by stronger-than-expected demand from its installed base business and continued customer investment tied to artificial intelligence, memory and advanced logic production. Roger Dassen, ASML’s e
Dutch tech giant ASML, which makes cutting-edge machines to manufacture semiconductor chips, Wednesday posted a gain in second-quarter net profits compared with the same period in 2025.Europe's biggest tech firm by market value said net profits came in at 2.9 billion euros, compared with 2.3 billion in the second quarter of last year.
Intel has decided to use a high-end machine from ASML to manufacture some of its flagship Panther Lake laptop chips, ASML said on Tuesday, a move that will help the chipmaker learn to use the tool more effectively. Following experiments that began in 2024, Intel has begun to use ASML's next-generation high numerical aperture (High NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines, which print circuit patterns on to microchips, to help produce a portion of its Panther Lake processors, ASML said. The industry has debated at what point it makes economic sense to begin deploying the High NA tools, which likely will be needed by chipmakers in the future as they continue to shrink the atomic-sized features that make up chips.
ASML, the world's biggest supplier of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, on Wednesday reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and profit, as demand from makers of artificial intelligence chips offset uncertainty over sales to China. Revenue for the three months ended June 30 was 9.33 billion euros ($10.90 billion), compared with the 8.80 billion euros expected by analysts, according to LSEG median estimates. Net income was 2.92 billion euros, compared with the 2.62 billion euros expected, according to LSEG data.
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Europe's most valuable company and the top supplier of chip-making equipment reports on Wednesday with the AI rally getting
SINGAPORE, July 15 (Reuters) - Asian markets were higher on Wednesday after a surprise slowdown in U.S. inflation scaled back market expectations for interest rate hikes, while oil took a breather as
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