ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven, Netherlands.
ASML's headquarters and main campus are in Veldhoven, a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant near Eindhoven. The company was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between Philips and ASM International. Its original name, ASM Lithography, described its role in developing equipment for semiconductor manufacturing.
ASML makes lithography machines that project patterns onto silicon wafers during chip production. Its extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, systems are used for some of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. These machines are highly complex and depend on an international network of specialist suppliers.
Veldhoven is often confused with Eindhoven because the towns are adjacent and the region is widely known as the Eindhoven technology area. ASML is not a chip manufacturer like TSMC; it supplies the equipment that chip manufacturers use. That distinction is central to understanding its strategic role in the semiconductor industry.