ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven, a municipality in the Netherlands.
ASML was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between Advanced Semiconductor Materials International and Philips. Its headquarters and major campus are in Veldhoven, near Eindhoven in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The company’s name originally stood for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography.
ASML develops lithography machines used to print extremely small patterns on semiconductor wafers. Its extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, systems are used for some of the most advanced chip-production processes. These machines use a 13.5-nanometer wavelength of light and require complex optics, vacuum systems, and precision engineering.
Veldhoven is sometimes incorrectly given as Eindhoven because the towns are close and the region is widely known as the Eindhoven technology area. ASML’s official headquarters, however, are in Veldhoven.